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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... mother might be , she had a rare pride of birth , much dignity , and a sincere love for her offspring . The great affliction of her life was the marriage of her son with Made- moiselle Blois , the natural daughter of Louis XIV . by ...
... mother might be , she had a rare pride of birth , much dignity , and a sincere love for her offspring . The great affliction of her life was the marriage of her son with Made- moiselle Blois , the natural daughter of Louis XIV . by ...
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... mother's side , the King being present , but the ill - favoured yet high - spirited lady took no notice whatever of King , husband , or child . Her eyes filled with tears until the monarch tenderly offered her of some dish upon the ...
... mother's side , the King being present , but the ill - favoured yet high - spirited lady took no notice whatever of King , husband , or child . Her eyes filled with tears until the monarch tenderly offered her of some dish upon the ...
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... mother , " is like Madame de Longueville , who almost died of ennui when with her husband in Normandy . He hates innocent amusements . " tutor , who lived to be a cardinal , was an atheist , and lost to virtue in every other respect ...
... mother , " is like Madame de Longueville , who almost died of ennui when with her husband in Normandy . He hates innocent amusements . " tutor , who lived to be a cardinal , was an atheist , and lost to virtue in every other respect ...
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... mother of her pupils had been staying at Spa for the benefit of her health , and had derived great benefit from the waters of the Sauvenière . Under the guidance of the instructress a fête was got up in honour of the event . Near the ...
... mother of her pupils had been staying at Spa for the benefit of her health , and had derived great benefit from the waters of the Sauvenière . Under the guidance of the instructress a fête was got up in honour of the event . Near the ...
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... mother ; a sentiment which , we are told , " young Louis Philippe expressed with great grace and effect . " Then the children disappeared , and the mother , by a circuitous route , was conducted to the altar . There she saw standing ...
... mother ; a sentiment which , we are told , " young Louis Philippe expressed with great grace and effect . " Then the children disappeared , and the mother , by a circuitous route , was conducted to the altar . There she saw standing ...
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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.