A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Том 8A. Fullarton, 1853 |
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Сторінка 255 - men,—companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm, Whose thunder is its knell. He, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness Actaeon-like ; and now he fled astray With feeble steps on the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. His head was bound with pansies
Сторінка 208 - steam-engine ; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,
Сторінка 420 - and spoke of all he knew, The friendly many, and the favourite few; Nor one that day did he to mind recall but she has treasured, and she loves them all; When in her way she meets them, they appear Peculiar people—death has made them dear. He named his
Сторінка 256 - upon cloud with dark and deep'ning mass Roll o'er the blacken'd waters; the deep roar Of distant thunder mutters awfully; Tempest unfolds its pinions o'er the gloom That shrouds the boiling surge; the pitiless fiend With all his winds and lightnings tracks his prey; The torn deep yawns,—the vessel finds a grave Beneath its jagged
Сторінка 420 - but she caught a last A dying look of love,—and all was past! She placed a decent stone his grave above, Neatly engraved—an offering of her love; For that she wrought, for that forsook her bed, Awake alike to duty and the dead; She would have grieved, had friends presumed to spare The least assistance—'twas her proper care.
Сторінка 420 - said not so—' Perhaps he will not sink: ' A sudden brightness in his look appear'd, A sudden vigour in his voice was heard:— She had been reading in the Book of Prayer, And led him forth, and placed him in his chair; Lively he
Сторінка 435 - Springs of Action ;' and * Chrestomathia: Part I. Explanatory of a proposed School for the Extension of the New System of Instruction to the higher Branches of Learning,' 1816. Part 2. being an 'Essay on Nomenclature and Classification ; including a critical examination of the Encyclopaedical Table of Lord Bacon,
Сторінка 208 - says the distinguished critic, "fortunately, needs no commemoration of ours ; for he that bore it survived to see it crowned with undisputed and unenvied honours; and many generations will probably pass away before it shall have 'gathered all its fame.' We have said that Mr Watt was the great improver
Сторінка 132 - It was printed by subscription, and the price was a guinea; one half to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the remainder on the delivery of the book. The number of subscribers was very great, no less (as entered on her own copy, some of the names being in MS.}
Сторінка 296 - with great decorum ; I defied pain, and preached up equanimity. For some time this did very well, for no one was in pain for me but my friends, and none lost their patience but my hearers. At last, a fall from my horse convinced me that bodily suffering was an evil; and