The Autobiography of Leigh HuntSmith, Elder, 1870 - 412 стор. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 42
Сторінка xi
... wish to do what was right , to avoid every chance of wrong , and , if possible , to abstain from causing any pain , begot an uncertainty of purpose for which I can find no known prototype except in the character of IIamlet . The ultra ...
... wish to do what was right , to avoid every chance of wrong , and , if possible , to abstain from causing any pain , begot an uncertainty of purpose for which I can find no known prototype except in the character of IIamlet . The ultra ...
Сторінка 21
... wishes of the colonists , he should remain in security ; but that if he thought fit to do otherwise , he must suffer the consequences which awaited him . The letter con- cluded with advising her , as she valued her husband's and ...
... wishes of the colonists , he should remain in security ; but that if he thought fit to do otherwise , he must suffer the consequences which awaited him . The letter con- cluded with advising her , as she valued her husband's and ...
Сторінка 25
... wish that we could be older or younger than we are , according as we desire to have the benefit of gaiety or experience ! Her greatest pleasure during her decay was to lie on a sofa , look- ing at the setting sun . She used to liken it ...
... wish that we could be older or younger than we are , according as we desire to have the benefit of gaiety or experience ! Her greatest pleasure during her decay was to lie on a sofa , look- ing at the setting sun . She used to liken it ...
Сторінка 34
... wish I had no worse faults to answer for . But the fact is , that however I may laugh at the puerile conscience of the anecdote just mentioned , an oath has not escaped my lips from that day to this . I hope no " good fellow " will ...
... wish I had no worse faults to answer for . But the fact is , that however I may laugh at the puerile conscience of the anecdote just mentioned , an oath has not escaped my lips from that day to this . I hope no " good fellow " will ...
Сторінка 50
... wish it to mean - something solid , unpretending , of good character , and free to all . More boys are to be found in it , who issue from a greater variety of ranks , than in any school in the kingdom ; and as it is the most various ...
... wish it to mean - something solid , unpretending , of good character , and free to all . More boys are to be found in it , who issue from a greater variety of ranks , than in any school in the kingdom ; and as it is the most various ...
Інші видання - Показати все
Загальні терміни та фрази
acquainted admiration afterwards appeared beautiful believe better Boccaccio boys brother called captain character Charles Lamb CHARLOTTE Bronte Christ Hospital church Coleridge critics delight Della Cruscans England English eyes face fancied father favourite feeling gave genius Genoa Genoese give good-natured grace habit Hampstead hand handsome head heard heart honour Horace Smith imagination Italian Italy kind knew lady Leigh Leigh Hunt Lerici lived look Lord Byron Lord Castlereagh Lord Holland manner master mind mother nature never night noble opinion perhaps person Pisa play pleasant pleasure poem poet political prison reader reason recollection respect seemed sense Shelley side sight sort speak spirit street suffered supposed taste things thought tion told took truth turned Tuscany Venus verses Vincent Novello voice Voltaire Whig wife word writing wrote young
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 232 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.
Сторінка 57 - Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
Сторінка 239 - For Heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Сторінка 364 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood...
Сторінка 232 - I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why : until there rose From the near schoolroom voices that alas ! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Сторінка 241 - I am sorry to say that your conduct is not extraordinary; and if my own seems to amaze you, I will tell you something which may amaze you a little more, and I hope will frighten you. It is such men as you who madden the spirits and the patience of the poor and wretched; and if ever a convulsion comes in this country, (which is very probable,) recollect what I tell you: you will have your house, that you refuse to put the miserable woman into, burnt over your head.
Сторінка 93 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Сторінка 232 - Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when first The clouds which wrap this world from youth did pass. I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep : a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why: until there rose From the near school-room, voices, that, alas!
Сторінка 26 - It was now the middle of May, and the morning was remarkably serene, when Mr. Allworthy walked forth on the terrace, where the dawn opened every minute that lovely prospect we have before described to his eye ; and now having sent forth streams of light, which ascended the blue firmament before him, as harbingers preceding his pomp...
Сторінка 193 - Then let your style be brief, your meaning clear, Nor, like Lorenzo, tire the labouring ear With a wild waste of words ; sound without sense, And all the florid glare of impotence. Still, with your characters your language change, — From grave to gay, as nature dictates, range : Now droop in all the plaintiveness of woe, — (! !) Now in glad numbers light and airy flow ; Now shake the stage with guilt's alarming tone, ( ! !) And make the aching bosom all your own" Was there ever a fonder set of...