Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and Morals Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent PersonsJames Philemon Holcombe D. Appleton, 1866 - 520 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adieu admired affectionate Alexander Pope Alloway Kirk Amusements beautiful believe Bishop Bishop of Rochester bless Burke called Charles Lamb Court David Hume dear death delight dined dinner Duchess Duke ell-ell-deed England English eyes favor fear feel Franklin French George Crabbe give hand happy head hear heard heart honor hope Horace Walpole horse hour Ignatius Sancho John kind King Lady M. W. Montagu Lady Mayoress letter live London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Madame Madame de Sévigné mind Miss morning nature never night passed person pleased pleasure poor pray present Prince Queen received Robert Southey Samuel Crisp servant Sir W. W. Pepys soon Southey spirits Sydney Smith tell thing thought tion told town walk Walpole to Sir Walter Savage Landor Walter Scott whole William wish woman write
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Página 495 - cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee ; nor, again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble, are more necessary." The poor, then, being as it were the
Página 436 - in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. * * * « » Hard by, a cottage-chimney smokes From
Página 151 - fugavi, redit. And it will happen to such as us, mere imps of science. Well it may, when wisdom herself is forced often In sweet retired solitude To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too raffled, and
Página 305 - people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery ; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants
Página 306 - Speech at Tilbury Fort. than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject ; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valor in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdoms,
Página 221 - cock, and calls up the lark to mattins ; and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills, thrusting out his golden horns * » * ; and still (while a man tells the story) the sun gets up higher till he shows a fair face and a full
Página 401 - which my dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. * When Johnson determined to write an English dictionary, he addressed the prospectus to Lord Chesterfield, who was regarded as the
Página 142 - And snatched them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate ; When God calls virtue to the grave, Alike 'tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue, unmoved, can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. Upon the whole, I can't think these people unhappy. The
Página 443 - with tears. There is a tradition which I have met with in many places of Scotland, that it was Robert Bruce's march at the battle of Bannockburn. This thought in my solitary wanderings, warmed me to a pitch of enthusiasm on the theme of liberty and independence, which I
Página 279 - the hearth, and to offer it for his refreshment beneath a tree, in the plains of Mamre; while Amraphel, King of Shinar ; Arioch, King of Ellasar ; Chedorlaomer, King of Elam ; and Tidal, King of Nations, are at war with Beza, King of Sodom ; and with Birsha, King of Gomorrah ; Shinab, King of Admah ; and Shemeber, King of Zeboim ; and the King