Notes from a Diary, 1889-1891, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1901 |
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... Lecky was in the chair , with Lord Derby on his right , Lord Kimberley and F. Leveson Gower on his left . Robert Meade was opposite Lord Derby ; I was opposite Kimberley . There was much talk about the Bishop of Peterborough's committee ...
... Lecky was in the chair , with Lord Derby on his right , Lord Kimberley and F. Leveson Gower on his left . Robert Meade was opposite Lord Derby ; I was opposite Kimberley . There was much talk about the Bishop of Peterborough's committee ...
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... Lecky , who was in the chair , and Lord Derby making the party . I asked Reeve We talked of Cousin's conversation . if he thought it better than Villemain's . He said that he had never known Villemain well enough to compare the two ...
... Lecky , who was in the chair , and Lord Derby making the party . I asked Reeve We talked of Cousin's conversation . if he thought it better than Villemain's . He said that he had never known Villemain well enough to compare the two ...
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... Lecky mentioned also a joke , said to be current in the city since the great financial collapse : " The Rothschilds were never so overbearing . " Mrs. Bishop sends me the following extract from a letter addressed to her by the Vicomte ...
... Lecky mentioned also a joke , said to be current in the city since the great financial collapse : " The Rothschilds were never so overbearing . " Mrs. Bishop sends me the following extract from a letter addressed to her by the Vicomte ...
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... Lecky , Dr. Smith , and Arthur Russell made the party . We came to a resolution , which was not formally recorded , that Dr. Smith , who had taken Reeve's place for the night , and was in temporary possession of our sacred books ...
... Lecky , Dr. Smith , and Arthur Russell made the party . We came to a resolution , which was not formally recorded , that Dr. Smith , who had taken Reeve's place for the night , and was in temporary possession of our sacred books ...
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... Lecky . I thought of an encounter I had with him in the days of our Metaphysical Society . Darwin says ( Descent of Man , i . page 61 ) , that the hen birds seem to prefer cocks with brilliant plumage , but why they should prefer the ...
... Lecky . I thought of an encounter I had with him in the days of our Metaphysical Society . Darwin says ( Descent of Man , i . page 61 ) , that the hen birds seem to prefer cocks with brilliant plumage , but why they should prefer the ...
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الصفحة 64 - Then he comes to understand how it is that lines, the birth of some chance morning or evening at an Ionian festival, or among the Sabine hills, have lasted generation after generation, for thousands of years, with a power over the mind, and a charm, which the current literature of his own day, with all its obvious advantages, is utterly unable to rival.
الصفحة 239 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
الصفحة 47 - Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
الصفحة 44 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain ! But when I speak— thou dost not...
الصفحة 64 - Virgil, as if a prophet or magician ; his single words and phrases, his pathetic half lines, giving utterance, as the voice of Nature herself, to that pain and weariness, yet hope of better things, which is the experience of her children in every time.
الصفحة 20 - I am aware that the age is not what we all wish. But I am sure, that the only means of checking its precipitate degeneracy, is heartily to concur with whatever is the best in our time...
الصفحة 142 - Le moment du triomphe des saints est vraiment celui de leur mort. Leur vie, appréciée d'après nos idées modernes, semble imparfaite, en ce sens qu'ils ont été exclusifs, qu'ils n'ont vu les choses que par un seul côté, qu'ils ont manqué de critique et d'étendue d'esprit. Je ne souhaiterais pas leur vie, mais je suis jaloux de leur mort. A voir ces fins glorieuses et calmes, l'âme se relève et se fortifie ; on reprend quelque estime pour la nature humaine, on se persuade que cette nature...
الصفحة 99 - KINGS OF ENGLAND, — names •which an Englishman can scarcely read without a smile or a sigh ! Often at the present day does the British traveller turn from the sunny crest of the Pincian, or the carnival throng of the Corso, to gaze in thoughtful silence on that mockery of human greatness, and that last record of ruined hopes...
الصفحة 99 - Thomas Simon most humbly prays your Majesty to compare this his tryal piece with the Dutch, and if more truly drawn and embossed, more gracefully ordered, and more accurately engraven, to relieve him...
الصفحة 211 - The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument...