William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Volumen2Roberts Brothers, 1876 - 395 páginas This is a book about the group of friends kept by William Godwin, Wollstonecraft's husband. |
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acquaintance admiration affectionately answer Antonio believe Bentham BLOOMSBURY SQUARE bookseller Brocket Hall Caleb Williams character Charles Lamb Constable daughter dear sir DEAR SIR,-I desire Diary dine endeavour England Fanny father favour feelings Friday give happy heart Holcroft honour hope interest Jane Kemble Keswick kind Lady Caroline Lamb Lamb to William literary live London look Lord Lynmouth Malthus Mary Godwin Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin mind Miss morning mother never night novel occasion opinion Panopticon perhaps person play pleasure present received respect S. T. COLERIDGE sent Shelley Shelley's sincerely sister SKINNER ST Skinner Street Swansea tell theatre things thought tion told tragedy Valperga WASHINGTON IRVING week wife William Godwin wish words Write to M. J. written wrote yesterday young
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Página 100 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Página 197 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 219 - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat...
Página 104 - Ten thousand times I have confessed to you, talking of my talents, my utter inability to remember in any comprehensive way what I read. I can vehemently applaud, or perversely stickle, at parts ; but I cannot grasp at a whole.
Página 205 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Página 206 - Nor can it be but a touch of arrogant ignorance to hold this or that nation barbarous, these or those times gross, considering how this manifold creature man, wheresoever he stand in the world, hath always some disposition of worth, entertains the order of society, affects that which is most in use, and is eminent in some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times.
Página 242 - I have long determined that the best thing I could do was to put an end to the existence of a being whose birth was unfortunate...
Página 96 - I have found in this writer more original thinking and observation upon the several subjects that he has taken in hand than in any other, not to say, than in all others put together. His talent also for illustration is unrivalled.
Página 223 - I once translated into blank verse about half of the poem, but gave it up under the influence of a double disgust, moral and poetical), I have rejected, and, strictly speaking, the tale in all its parts, that one idea excepted, would be original.
Página 249 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.