 His very clearness puzzles and perplexes them, and they imagine that straightness is distortion, as children on seeing a wand dipped in limpid and still water. Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are : the turbid look the...  Walter Savage Landor - Seite 33von John Forster - 1869Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 Seiten
...clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are : the turbid look the most profound. Parson. Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant...of ordinary size, and bite both indiscriminately. Southty. Our critics are onion-eaters by the Pyramids of Poetry. They sprawl along the sands, without... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 632 Seiten
...seem so deep as they are : the turbid look the most profound. Parson. Fleas know not whether they arc upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size, and bite both indiscriminately. fcuHthey. Our critics are onion-eaters by the Pyramids of Poetry. They sprawl along the sands, without... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 Seiten
...clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are : the turbid look the most profound. Parson. Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant...of ordinary size, and bite both indiscriminately. Southey. Our critics are onion-eaters by the Pyramids of Poetry. They sprawl along the sands, without... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 458 Seiten
...deep as they are: the turbid look the most profou Parson. Fleas know not whether they are upon the be of a giant or upon one of ordinary size, and bite both inc criminately. Southey. Our critics are onion-eaters by the Pyramids Poetry. They sprawl along the... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 354 Seiten
...clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are : the turbid look the most profound. PORSON. Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant...of ordinary size, and bite both indiscriminately. SOUTHEY. Our 2 critics are onion-eaters by the Pyramids of Poetry. They sprawl along the sands, without... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...To lanthe' "Its verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. 2404 Imaginary Conversations Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size. LANGAndrew 1844-1912 2405 He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. 5997 Imaginary Conversatlons Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size. 5998 An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. 5999 'Ireland never was contented'... | |
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