The Autobiography of Leigh HuntSmith, Elder and Company, 1860 - 412 стор. |
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... pleasurable , his avowed doctrine of cultivating cheerfulness , were mani- fest on the surface , and could be appreciated by those who knew him in society , most probably even exagge- rated as salient traits , on which he himself ...
... pleasurable , his avowed doctrine of cultivating cheerfulness , were mani- fest on the surface , and could be appreciated by those who knew him in society , most probably even exagge- rated as salient traits , on which he himself ...
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... pleasurable , and his tenderness , he was a mere easy sentimentalist . If he may be compared to Hamlet , it was Hamlet buckling himself to hard work , and performing with vigour and conscientious completeness . Seldom have writers so ...
... pleasurable , and his tenderness , he was a mere easy sentimentalist . If he may be compared to Hamlet , it was Hamlet buckling himself to hard work , and performing with vigour and conscientious completeness . Seldom have writers so ...
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... pleasure and advantage she had derived from his discourses . But unfortunately , after delighting his hearers in the pulpit , he would delight some of them a little too much over the table . He was extremely lively and agreeable ; was ...
... pleasure and advantage she had derived from his discourses . But unfortunately , after delighting his hearers in the pulpit , he would delight some of them a little too much over the table . He was extremely lively and agreeable ; was ...
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... pleasures , that if she could have ceased to look for- ward about her children , I believe , with all his defects , those evenings would have brought unmingled satisfaction to her , when , after brightening the fire and bringing out the ...
... pleasures , that if she could have ceased to look for- ward about her children , I believe , with all his defects , those evenings would have brought unmingled satisfaction to her , when , after brightening the fire and bringing out the ...
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... pleasure during her decay was to lie on a sofa , look- ing at the setting sun . She used to liken it to the door of heaven , and fancy her lost children there , waiting for her . She died in the fifty - third year of her age , in a ...
... pleasure during her decay was to lie on a sofa , look- ing at the setting sun . She used to liken it to the door of heaven , and fancy her lost children there , waiting for her . She died in the fifty - third year of her age , in a ...
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Сторінка 255 - May-dawn it was, When 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.
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Сторінка 236 - ... perhaps there was not a handsomer room on that side the water. I took a pleasure, when a stranger knocked at the door, to see him come in and stare about him. The surprise on issuing from the Borough, and passing through the avenues of a gaol, was dramatic. Charles Lamb declared there was no other such room except in a fairy tale.
Сторінка 224 - Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
Сторінка 224 - What person, unacquainted with the true state of the case, would imagine, in reading these astounding eulogies, that this "Glory of the people" was the subject of millions of shrugs and reproaches! — that this "Protector of the arts...
Сторінка 322 - Yclothed was she, fresh for to devise : Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yarde* long I guess : And in the garden, at the...
Сторінка 255 - 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 317 - None of the mourners, however, refused themselves the little comfort of supposing, that lovers of books and antiquity, like Shelley and his companion, Shelley in particular with his Greek enthusiasm, would not have been sorry to foresee this part of their fate. The mortal part of him, too, was saved from corruption; not the least extraordinary part of his history. Among the materials for burning, as many of the gracefuller and more classical articles as could be procured — frankincense, wine, &c.
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...