 Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth; the...  Niagara Index - Seite 631899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1864 - 340 Seiten
...fhuttle.' Thofe metaphors folace me not, nor fweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality. . . I am in love with this green earth : the face of town and country : the unfpeakable rural folitudes, and the fweet fecurity offtreets." (How quaint and harmonious thefe two... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1866 - 258 Seiten
...weaver's shuttle.' Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality I am in love with this green earth : the face of town and...rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets." (How quaint and harmonious these two last expressions !) " I would set up my tabernacle here. I am... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1867 - 232 Seiten
...tide that smoothly bears human life to eternity ; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth ; the face of town and...content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends, to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ;... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 Seiten
...tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity ; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth ; the face of town and...content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends : to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 Seiten
...smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love witi this green earth; the face of town and country; the...would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand Btill at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends: to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 Seiten
...mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide, and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth ; the face of town and...rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets." There is an essay by Lamb's friend Hazlitt on the Fear of Death, which it is interesting to compare... | |
 | John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 Seiten
...tide that smoothly bears human life to eternity, and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth ; the face of town and...content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived; I, and my friends ; to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ;... | |
 | Charles Pebody - 1872 - 458 Seiten
...thousand whim-whams." How sentences like these show us the working of the man's heart and brain ! " I am in love with this green earth, the face of town and country, the unspeakable rural solitude, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand... | |
 | Sara Coleridge - 1873 - 390 Seiten
...tide that smoothly bears human life to eternity ; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth, the face of town and...security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. — LamVs Essays. New Year's Eve. — EC 1 34 Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. bachelor delighted... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 62 Seiten
...tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity ; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth ; the face of town and...content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends : to be np younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age... | |
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