Talks about AutographsHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 191 من الصفحات |
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... son's tailor , Mr. Snip I will call him , wrote to the old soldier to beg him make the young man settle his account . He received the following answer : - - - once " F. M. the Duke of Wellington begs to inform 2 TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS.
... son's tailor , Mr. Snip I will call him , wrote to the old soldier to beg him make the young man settle his account . He received the following answer : - - - once " F. M. the Duke of Wellington begs to inform 2 TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS.
الصفحة 31
... soldiers , they must follow one by one , and we must so manage the matter that the mob may suppose that there will be no end of them that are coming . ' Accordingly we so advanced , and the corporal calling out to his soldiers to come ...
... soldiers , they must follow one by one , and we must so manage the matter that the mob may suppose that there will be no end of them that are coming . ' Accordingly we so advanced , and the corporal calling out to his soldiers to come ...
الصفحة 32
... soldiers said they would do their duty as soldiers , but they would not be witnesses . " ( 6 " My poor excellent corporal and commander , " adds Lord Eldon , was shot at Waterloo . " Across France Napoleon , escaped from Elba , was ...
... soldiers said they would do their duty as soldiers , but they would not be witnesses . " ( 6 " My poor excellent corporal and commander , " adds Lord Eldon , was shot at Waterloo . " Across France Napoleon , escaped from Elba , was ...
الصفحة 77
... soldier- had just had a play brought out at one of the London theatres , and had re- ceived some compliments in the " Saturday Re- view . " He wrote so grateful a letter of acknow- ledgment that my friend owned to me that he had not the ...
... soldier- had just had a play brought out at one of the London theatres , and had re- ceived some compliments in the " Saturday Re- view . " He wrote so grateful a letter of acknow- ledgment that my friend owned to me that he had not the ...
الصفحة 167
... soldier would be this side the Rhine by this time . I am more than ever certain they will come to Paris , which town they cannot take , however . Well ! let us hope for the best . Faithfully yours , P. S. The unfortunate men who ...
... soldier would be this side the Rhine by this time . I am more than ever certain they will come to Paris , which town they cannot take , however . Well ! let us hope for the best . Faithfully yours , P. S. The unfortunate men who ...
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Ambleside American asked autograph believe Boswell brother Brougham Carlyle collection collector College Colonel copy D. G. ROSSETTI DEAR SIR dinner doubt edition editor Eldon England English escaped FACSIMILE faithfully father feeling following letter France French genius give Gordon hand happy Hartley Coleridge heard hope Horace Walpole John Bright Johnson LA FAVORITE Lamb late learning Leigh Hunt letter was written London look Lord Lord Eldon Macaulay Macpherson Madame de Staël Matthew Arnold Miss Edgeworth Miss Martineau never once Oxford Paris passed Pembroke College perhaps pleasant pleasure poet pounds published Quincey received replied Review ROBERT SOUTHEY ROSSETTI Saturday scarcely Scott sent Sir Rowland soldiers Southey story strong talk tell THOMAS DE QUINCEY thought tion told town Tupper W. E. GLADSTONE wish word writing wrote young
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الصفحة 53 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.
الصفحة 92 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
الصفحة 90 - Dunvegan, and Col. Dr. Johnson appeared fond of it, and used often to stand for some time with his ear close to the great drone.
الصفحة 8 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
الصفحة 60 - A dissenter, but a liberal one ; a man of letters and of genius ; master of a fine imagination, or rather not master of it — an imagination which, when he finds himself in the company he loves, and can confide in, runs away with him into such fields of speculation as amuse and enliven every other imagination that has the happiness to be of the party. At other times he has a tender and delicate sort of melancholy in his disposition, not less agreeable in its way.
الصفحة 52 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
الصفحة 104 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
الصفحة 55 - Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity of mankind ; never could read a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it.
الصفحة 23 - Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
الصفحة 60 - O'Connell always treated me with friendly attention, but I never shook hands with him or faced his smile without a feeling of insecurity; and as for trusting him on any public question where his vanity or passions might interpose, I should have as soon thought of an alliance with an Ashantee...