Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year 1783 to 1852, Volumen2Longmans, Green, 1865 |
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Página 63 - And guiltless men, who danced away their time, Fresh as their groves, and happy as their clime. Had we still paid that homage to a name, Which only God and nature justly claim ; The western seas had been our utmost bound, Where poets still might dream the sun was drown'd : And all the stars that shine in southern skies, Had been admired by none but savage eyes.
Página 63 - He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Página 3 - These prospects served even to pass cheerfully a long winter of delays and uncertainty, by keeping my mind firmly riveted on their accomplishment A concatenation of unfortunate circumstances — the political state of Europe making absence a necessity, and even frequent communication impossible, letters lost and delayed, all certainty of meeting more difficult, questions unanswered, doubts unsatisfied. All these circumstances combined in the most unlucky manner crushed the fair fabric of my happiness,...
Página 73 - Curran applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of Habeas Corpus to bring up the body of Mr. Tone upon the ground 'that courts-martial had no jurisdiction upon subject* not in the service of His Majesty during the sitting of the Court of King's Bench.
Página 35 - Nobody but he could have made that speech ; and nobody but he would have made [it], if they could. It was at once a proof that his abilities were superior to those of all men, and his judgement below that of any man.
Página 19 - He was still capable of being -amused, and of taking some part in conversation ; but, during the last weeks of his life, when fever was superadded to his other ills, his mind became subject to the cruel hallucination of supposing himself neglected and abandoned by the only persons to whom his memory clung, and whom he always desired to see. In vain they recalled to his recollection how recently they had left him, and how short had been their absence : it satisfied him for the moment, but the same...
Página 438 - Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear; Till death, unfelt, that tender frame destroy, In some soft dream, or ecstasy of joy, Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb, And wake to raptures in a life to come.
Página 362 - Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in, Till, in this rapid race On which it is bent, It reaches the place Of its steep descent.
Página 301 - ... Shall end where they began. Alike the shabby and the gay Must meet the sun's meridian ray, The air — the dust — the damp : This, shall the sudden shower despoil, That, slow decay by gradual soil, Those, envious boxes cramp. Who will, their squander'd gold may pay, Who will, our taste deride; We'll scorn the fashion of the day With philosophic pride. Methinks we thus, in accents low, Might Sydney Smith address : " Poor moralist ! and what art thou, Who never spoke of dress...
Página 3 - This parcel of letters relates to the six happiest months of my long and insignificant existence, although these six months were accompanied by fatiguing and unavoidable uncertainty, and by the absence of everything that could constitute present enjoyment. But I looked forward to a future existence which I felt, for the first time, would have called out all the powers of my mind, and all the warmest feelings of my heart, and...