Half-hours with the Best Letter-writers and Autobiographers: Forming a Collection of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Eminent Persons, Volumen2Routledge and sons, 1868 |
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance affection amusing Autobiography Ballitore beautiful believe Bishop BISHOP PERCY bless brother Burke called character Christopher North comfort correspondence cousin Cowper death delight desire Edmund Burke EDWARD GIBBON England eyes father favour fear feel friendship Garrick gentleman GEORGE CRABBE Gibbon give hand Hannah Hannah More's happy hath hear heard heart Henry Sampson Woodfall honour hope JAMES BOSWELL JOHN PASTON Junius King knew labour lady Lausanne Leadbeater letter literary live London Lord Lord Chamberlain Lordship MARY LEADBEATER matter mind morning mother nature never night once passion Percy perhaps person pleasure poor present Quincy received ROBERT SOUTHEY Samuel Foote seemed Shackleton Sir John Dinely society soon SOUTHEY spirit thee things thou thought tion Topcroft truth Unwin whole wish word writing young
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Página 338 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 75 - THE twentieth year is well-nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast; Ah would that this might be the last! My Mary! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow — 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary!
Página 259 - ... of the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat...
Página 399 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 267 - Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.
Página 66 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 259 - O heavens ! what a revulsion ! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit ! what an apocalypse of the world within me ! That my pains had vanished was now a trifle in my eyes ; this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened...
Página 266 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Página 268 - And so often did this hideous reptile haunt my dreams, that many times the very same dream was broken up in .the very same way : I heard gentle voices speaking to me (I hear...
Página 217 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.