Talks about AutographsHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 191 من الصفحات |
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... told me of a workingman who laid out at his shop much more than he could well afford . To escape the scoldings of his wife , he would smuggle each new purchase home at the bottom of the basket in which he brought from market the week's ...
... told me of a workingman who laid out at his shop much more than he could well afford . To escape the scoldings of his wife , he would smuggle each new purchase home at the bottom of the basket in which he brought from market the week's ...
الصفحة 13
... told her afterwards that she need not have been so scrupulous , for all that she had returned he had thrown into the fire . A man who burns an autograph shows such an insensibility of na- ture , such a want of imagination , that it is ...
... told her afterwards that she need not have been so scrupulous , for all that she had returned he had thrown into the fire . A man who burns an autograph shows such an insensibility of na- ture , such a want of imagination , that it is ...
الصفحة 32
... told them they would be hanged . One of them bid me look to myself , and told me that the people were much more likely to hang me than I was to procure any of them to be hanged . They were sent before a justice of the peace ; but the ...
... told them they would be hanged . One of them bid me look to myself , and told me that the people were much more likely to hang me than I was to procure any of them to be hanged . They were sent before a justice of the peace ; but the ...
الصفحة 33
... told me that his father , a clergyman of the Church of England , once took the chair at a dinner given by one of the London companies , at which Lord Eldon was the chief guest . When the table had been cleared , the old man , who was ...
... told me that his father , a clergyman of the Church of England , once took the chair at a dinner given by one of the London companies , at which Lord Eldon was the chief guest . When the table had been cleared , the old man , who was ...
الصفحة 48
... told , to the little shop in the High Street where its publications are sold , so that they may carry away a memorial of the place . A family Bible , I learn , is what they almost always select , an admirable choice , no doubt , in ...
... told , to the little shop in the High Street where its publications are sold , so that they may carry away a memorial of the place . A family Bible , I learn , is what they almost always select , an admirable choice , no doubt , in ...
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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...