The Life of William Roscoe, Том 1Russell, Odiorne,, 1833 - 374 стор. |
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Сторінка 334 - And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise. But that none hath by more studious ways endeavoured, and with more unwearied spirit that none shall, that I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend...
Сторінка 69 - Afrie's swarthy sons their toils repeat, Beneath the fervors of the noontide heat; Torn from each joy that crown'd their native soil, No...
Сторінка 309 - ... it. Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, Knox, the founders of the reformed church in their respective countries, inflicted, as far as they had power and opportunity, the same punishments, which were denounced against their own disciples by the church of Rome, upon such as called in question any article of their creed.
Сторінка 236 - If he seek to better his income, it is by such methods as hurt neither his conscience nor his constitution. He hath friends and acquaintances of his own rank : he receives good offices from them, and he returns the same : as he hath his occupations, he hath his diversions also ; and partakes of the simple, J frugal, obvious, innocent, and cheerful amusements of life.
Сторінка 23 - Majestic, nervous, bold, and strong, Let ANGELO with MILTON vie; Opposed to WALLER'S amorous song, His art let wanton TITIAN try; Let great ROMANO'S free design Contend with DRYDEN'S pompous line; And chaste CORREGGIO'S...
Сторінка 5 - without any design except to amuse myself; and got the languages by hunting after the stories in the several poets I read, rather than read the books to get the languages. I followed everywhere as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as they fell in his way. These five or six years I looked upon as the happiest in my life.
Сторінка 120 - already intruded much too far on your Lordship's time. I must, ' however, mention that I have, for upwards of ten years, been a ' member of a little society of about a dozen persons (Dr Currie ' and others), who have, during that time, met in rotation at each ' other's houses. The object of our meeting was merely literary : ' but suspicion has for some time gone abroad about us, and I have ' good reason to believe we have been thought of importance ' enough to be pointed out to Government by the...
Сторінка 138 - An intimate friend, with whom I had been many years united in studies and affection, had paid a visit to Italy, and had fixed his winter residence at Florence. I well knew that I had only to request his assistance, in order to obtain whatever information he had an opportunity of procuring, from the very spot which was to be the scene of my intended history. My inquiries were particularly directed towards the Laurentian and Riccardi libraries, which I was convinced would afford much original and interesting...
Сторінка 78 - A little scoundrel, a Spanish Jesuit, has advanced to the assistance of the slave-merchants, and has published a vindication of this traffic from the Old Testament. His work is extolled as a prodigy by these judges of composition, and is, in truth, no bad specimen of his talents, though egregiously false and sophistical, as all justifications of slavery must be. I have prompted a clergyman, a friend of mine, to answer him, by telling him, that if such be religion, I would 'none on't.
Сторінка 371 - I shall be delighted to stroll and saunter with you through the fields in an evening, instead of being locked up balloting for committees in St. Stephen's. In truth, my dear friend, it requires but little of the efforts of others to drive me from public life. The only wonder is, that I was ever brought into it; and I sink back with such a rapidity of gravitation into my natural inclination for quiet and retirement, that I totally despair of ever being roused again to a similar exertion. Add to this,...