Essays from the Times: Being a Selection from the Literary Papers which Have Appeared in that JournalJohn Murray, 1851 - 310 стор. |
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... already a lovely woman , full of energy and animation , endowed with great powers of mimicry , an exquisite ear , and an incomparable voice . Without education , and surrounded by flattery and vice , we must not wonder if the servant ...
... already a lovely woman , full of energy and animation , endowed with great powers of mimicry , an exquisite ear , and an incomparable voice . Without education , and surrounded by flattery and vice , we must not wonder if the servant ...
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... mistress . We are loth to go on . We have stated that Mr. Greville was famous " for his taste in objects of art and vertu . " He had an uncle , already named , Sir William Hamilton , who was famous in that way too . Sir William Hamilton.
... mistress . We are loth to go on . We have stated that Mr. Greville was famous " for his taste in objects of art and vertu . " He had an uncle , already named , Sir William Hamilton , who was famous in that way too . Sir William Hamilton.
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... already perfect , and made still more exuberant a spirit rich to overflowing in its passionate character and marvellous resources . All that could heighten loveliness of form and give intensity to intellectual strength came at the ...
... already perfect , and made still more exuberant a spirit rich to overflowing in its passionate character and marvellous resources . All that could heighten loveliness of form and give intensity to intellectual strength came at the ...
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... already had with him . I pronounce that he will one day astonish the world . " ' Nelson was introduced accordingly . His first im- pression of the beauty is briefly stated in a letter to his wife . " Lady Hamilton , " he writes , " has ...
... already had with him . I pronounce that he will one day astonish the world . " ' Nelson was introduced accordingly . His first im- pression of the beauty is briefly stated in a letter to his wife . " Lady Hamilton , " he writes , " has ...
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... already entered , and in the simplicity of his grand and noble nature never suspecting the possibility of falling into crime that should leave an ineffaceable blot upon a character which it was the ambition and glory of his life to ...
... already entered , and in the simplicity of his grand and noble nature never suspecting the possibility of falling into crime that should leave an ineffaceable blot upon a character which it was the ambition and glory of his life to ...
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Сторінка 126 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I...
Сторінка 263 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Сторінка 28 - Could I have rewarded these services I would not now call upon my country ; but as that has not been in my power, I leave Emma, Lady Hamilton therefore a legacy to my king and country, that they will give her an ample provision to maintain her rank in life.
Сторінка 269 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Сторінка 145 - ... most timid writer or artist, who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading...
Сторінка 28 - Then in sight of the combined fleets of France and Spain, distant about ten miles. " Whereas the eminent services of Emma Hamilton, widow of the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, have been of the very greatest service to my king and country, to my knowledge, without ever receiving any reward from either our king or country.
Сторінка 29 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck ? ' ' Hardy answered, '
Сторінка 272 - Grote the compliment which he pays to others, "the poets, historians, orators, and philosophers of Greece, have been all rendered both more intelligible and more instructive to the student, and the general picture of the Grecian world may now be conceived with a degree of fidelity which, considering our imperfect materials, it is curious to contemplate.
Сторінка 194 - To Jeffrey as an individual I shall ever be ready to show every kind of individual courtesy; but of Judge Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review I must ever think and speak as of a bad politician, a worse moralist, and a critic, in matters of taste, equally incompetent and unjust.
Сторінка 23 - I hope some day to have the pleasure of introducing you to Lady Hamilton, she is one of the very best women in the world ; she is an honour to her sex.