 | 1860 - 784 sivua
...mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on anything yet, notwithstanding the distance, be favored \ve remeinlier you and Mrs. Newton with the same affection as ever : but I would not therefore excuse... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 sivua
...laughter. But the mind long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix his eyes on any thing that may make a little variety in...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail. 1. My device was intended to represent.... the heart of a Christian, mourning and yet rejoicing, pierced... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 sivua
...laughter. But the mind long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix his eyes on. any thing that may make a little variety...contemplations though it were but a kitten playing with hér tail. 1. My device was intended to represant.... the héart of a Christian, mourniug and yet rejoicing,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 sivua
...laughter. But the mind long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fis his eyes on any thing that may make a little variety in its contemplations though it were but a kitteu playing with her tail. 1. My device was intended to repres-înt.... the heart of a Christian,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 sivua
...laughter. But the mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix his eyes on any thing that may make a little variety in...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail. ' * In fine, he had too delicate and too pure a heart : pious, irreproachable, austere, he thought... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 sivua
...laughter. But the mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix his eyes on any thing that may make a little variety in...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.'* In fine, he had too delicate and too pure a heart : pious, irreproachable, austere, he thought himself... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 496 sivua
...long wearied with thé sameness of a dull , dreary prospect , will gladly fix his eyes on any thiiig that may make a little variety in its contemplations...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail. 1. My device was intended to represent.... thé heart of a Christian, mourning and yet rejoicing, pierced... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 sivua
...mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on anything that may make a little variety in its contemplations,...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail." It may be doubted whether Shakspeare, in his youth at least, lived so constantly in the sunshine as... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 462 sivua
...sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly 1 The Worhe of W. Covper, i. 97. fix his eyes on anything that may make a little variety in its contemplations, though it were but a kitten playing with her tail."1 In reality, he had too delicate and too pure a heart : pious, irreproachable, austere, he thought... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 sivua
...But the mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes an any thing that may make a little variety in its contemplations,...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' Hia only human relief was occupation : ' The melancholy that I have mentioned to you, and concerning... | |
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Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at the door of my intellects, and still more that it should gain admittance. It is as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited in state. His antic... 
