British Letters Illustrative of Character and Social Life, Volumen1Edward Tuckerman Mason G. P. Putnam's sons, 1888 |
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affection amusement beautiful believe BERNARD BARTON bless breakfast brother Burke character CHARLES LAMB Coleridge conversation countenance dear delight dinner dress EDGEWORTH EDINBURGH expect eyes face father feel friends Garrick genius girl give hair half hand happy hear heard heart hope hour humor JOHN JOHN KEATS Julius Hare June KESWICK kind Lady LAMB TO MISS LAMB TO WILLIAM Landor laugh LEIGH HUNT letter live London look manner MARIA EDGEWORTH MARY LAMB MARY RUSSELL MITFORD mind MISS MARY morning mother nature ness never night once picture pleasant pleasure poems poor ROBERT SOUTHEY seemed seen SIR WALTER SCOTT sister sitting sort speak spirits sure talk tell thing THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS CARLYLE thought tion told walk week wife WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wish word write young
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Página 7 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the...
Página 30 - Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Página 28 - I have not the slightest feel of humility towards the Public — or to anything in existence, — but the eternal Being, the Principle of Beauty, and the Memory of great Men.
Página 71 - Yankee Englishman, such Limbs we make in Yankeeland ! As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the...
Página 8 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one...
Página 153 - I hope to have her well again with me, it would be sinning against her feelings to go about to praise her; for I can conceal nothing that I do from her. She is older, and wiser, and better than me, and all my wretched imperfections I cover to myself by resolutely thinking on her goodness.
Página 9 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my...
Página 285 - Weston, and saw, with regret, the laburnums, syringas, and guelder-roses, some of them blown, and others just upon the point of blowing, and could not help observing — all these will be gone before Lady Hesketh comes ! Still however there will be roses, and jasmine, and honeysuckle, and shady walks, and cool alcoves, and you will partake them with us. But I want you to have a share of every thing that is delightful here, and cannot bear that the advance of the season should steal away a single...
Página 11 - ... nothing at all. Why the plague, then, so fond of Ireland ? Then, all at once, because you, my dear friend, and a few more who are exceptions to the general picture, have a residence there. This it is that gives me all the pangs I feel in separation.
Página 9 - You may easily imagine what difficulties I had to encounter, left as I was without friends, recommendations, money, or impudence ; and that in a country where being born an Irishman was sufficient to keep me unemployed. Many in such circumstances would have had recourse to the friar's cord or to the suicide's halter. But, with all my follies, I had principle to resist the one and resolution to combat the other.