Dog and DuckA.A. Knopf, 1924 - Всего страниц: 226 |
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... wine from a daisy and his loaf is a grain of wheat . Here are mi- nute entities , indeed . Queen Mab is to be con- ceived as of about the size of a house - fly ; Oberon may be almost as huge as a harvest mouse . Hans Andersen , who ...
... wine from a daisy and his loaf is a grain of wheat . Here are mi- nute entities , indeed . Queen Mab is to be con- ceived as of about the size of a house - fly ; Oberon may be almost as huge as a harvest mouse . Hans Andersen , who ...
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... wine . " He glanced at me , and underlined his glance by spitting on the ground . And all three French- men intimated by this glance that they had always heard that the English were fools , and that now they were sure of it . Well ...
... wine . " He glanced at me , and underlined his glance by spitting on the ground . And all three French- men intimated by this glance that they had always heard that the English were fools , and that now they were sure of it . Well ...
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... wine , beer , spirits , all coffee , chocolate , cocoa , tea , all peas and beans , all meat , fish , and eggs . If you wish to tread the narrow way you drink no milk and eat no cheese . I do not know whether it cures rheumatism , I do ...
... wine , beer , spirits , all coffee , chocolate , cocoa , tea , all peas and beans , all meat , fish , and eggs . If you wish to tread the narrow way you drink no milk and eat no cheese . I do not know whether it cures rheumatism , I do ...
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... wine that it describes . " A record of a state of things which has fortunately quite passed away " ; in these words , or in words to that effect , did the Intellectual describe the golden volume of one who is learned , it is true , in wine ...
... wine that it describes . " A record of a state of things which has fortunately quite passed away " ; in these words , or in words to that effect , did the Intellectual describe the golden volume of one who is learned , it is true , in wine ...
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Arthur Machen. Dionysos , the Wine God ; how he went all over the world , civilizing the nations by teaching them the culture of the vine , and they have not heard the moral fable of King Pentheus , who resisted the civilizing mission of ...
Arthur Machen. Dionysos , the Wine God ; how he went all over the world , civilizing the nations by teaching them the culture of the vine , and they have not heard the moral fable of King Pentheus , who resisted the civilizing mission of ...
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Стр. 174 - By what means,' said the prince, 'are the Europeans thus powerful? Or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws to their natural princes? The same wind that carries them back would bring us thither.
Стр. 107 - I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.
Стр. 99 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Стр. 103 - I must abide by the actual scene), a white cottage, embowered with flowering shrubs, so chosen as to unfold a succession of flowers upon the walls and clustering around the windows, through all the months of spring, summer, and autumn; beginning, in fact, with May roses, and ending with jasmine. Let it, however, not be spring, nor summer, nor autumn; but winter, in its sternest shape. This is a most important point in the science of happiness.
Стр. 209 - He and I walked away together: we stopped a little while by the rails of the Adelphi, looking on the Thames, and I said to him with some emotion, that I was now thinking of two friends we had lost, who once lived in the buildings behind us, Beauclerk and Garrick. " Ay, Sir, (said he, tenderly) and two such friends as cannot be supplied.
Стр. 33 - ... were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome of the place, with amphitheatre, baths, temples, and everything necessary for the comfort of a Roman-Briton. And the Legion brought over the custom of the strena (French, etrennes), the New Year's Gift of good omen. The apple, with its...
Стр. 110 - Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with .pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.
Стр. 19 - prentice notch'd he strait doth call, Where's dame? (quoth he) — quoth son of shop, She's gone her cake in milke to sop. Ho ! ho ! — to ISLINGTON — enough — Fetch Job my son, and our dog Ruffe ; For there, in pond, through mire and muck, We'll cry, hay, duck — there Ruffe — hay, duck,
Стр. 210 - The word bottom thus introduced was so ludicrous when contrasted with his gravity, that most of us could not forbear tittering and laughing; though I recollect that the Bishop of Killaloe kept his countenance with perfect steadiness, while Miss Hannah More...
Стр. 32 - ... to be the disproportionate fruit of these small trees. At last, three bits of stick were fixed into the base of the apple, tripod-wise, and so it was borne round from house to house; and the children got cakes and sweets, and — those were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome...