New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... interruption ! I ordered myself to be denied , — and yet here is one that has broke in upon me again . He is a man of letters , and we have had a great deal of literary conversation . You told me 6 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... interruption ! I ordered myself to be denied , — and yet here is one that has broke in upon me again . He is a man of letters , and we have had a great deal of literary conversation . You told me 6 P. XI . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... conversation . You told me that you were curious of literary anecdotes , and therefore I shall inform you of a few that have come to my knowledge . I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book De l'Esprit . It is worth ...
... conversation . You told me that you were curious of literary anecdotes , and therefore I shall inform you of a few that have come to my knowledge . I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book De l'Esprit . It is worth ...
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... conversation , kindles often to a degree of heat which looks like inspiration . I love him much , and hope that I have some share in his affections . I find that we shall have many ways of settling him to his satisfaction , and as he is ...
... conversation , kindles often to a degree of heat which looks like inspiration . I love him much , and hope that I have some share in his affections . I find that we shall have many ways of settling him to his satisfaction , and as he is ...
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... conversation , as I flat- tered myself all last autumn . My intended jour- ney was every day delayed , for different reasons , which appeared , each of them , at the time , solid and invincible ; but it would be difficult for me to ...
... conversation , as I flat- tered myself all last autumn . My intended jour- ney was every day delayed , for different reasons , which appeared , each of them , at the time , solid and invincible ; but it would be difficult for me to ...
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... conversation with him ; but he clearly holds the balance , unless he lets it drop out of his hand . The Pandemonium ( as I understand ) does not meet till the twenty - sixth of November . Town is more a desert than I ever knew it . I ...
... conversation with him ; but he clearly holds the balance , unless he lets it drop out of his hand . The Pandemonium ( as I understand ) does not meet till the twenty - sixth of November . Town is more a desert than I ever knew it . I ...
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الصفحة 308 - On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And, now and then, a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
الصفحة 342 - This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
الصفحة 203 - I possess, to have patience to put them into verse. Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time : every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour, nearer to yonder church — -that church, into which I have not yet had courage to enter, .where lies that mother on whom I doated, and who doated on me ! There are the two rival mistresses of Houghton, neither of whom ever wished to enjoy it ! There, too, lies he who founded its greatness, to contribute to whose fall...
الصفحة 178 - ... through his fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this ? Thus, however, it is, and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it,...
الصفحة 207 - Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilized ; their very language is polished since I lived among them. I attribute this to their more frequent intercourse with the world and the capital, by the help of good roads and postchaises, which, if they have abridged the king's dominions, have at least tamed his subjects.
الصفحة 133 - You see plainly, what he meant to say, but that happy turn of expression is peculiar to himself. Mr. Walpole says, that this story is a picture of Goldsmith's whole life. Johnson has been confined for some weeks in the Isle of Sky ; we hear that he was obliged to swim over to the main land. taking hold of a cow's tail. Be that as it may, Lady Dif has promised to make a drawing of it.
الصفحة 200 - ... news ; he walks about, and speaks to everybody. I saw him afterwards on the throne where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity and reads his answers to addresses well; it was the Cambridge address, carried by the Duke of Newcastle in his doctor's gown, and looking like the Medecin malgre lui.
الصفحة 217 - In a dispute, into which she easily falls, she is very warm, and yet scarcely ever in the wrong : her judgment on every subject is as just as possible, on every point of conduct as wrong as possible ; for she is all love and hatred ; passionate for her friends to enthusiasm, still anxious to be loved (I don't mean by lovers), and a vehement enemy, but openly.
الصفحة 133 - Do you know," answered Goldsmith, " that I never could conceive the reason why they call you Malagrida, for Malagrida was a very good sort of man.
الصفحة 267 - ... genius of the first rank lost to the world, himself, and his friends, as I certainly must, if you do not assume a manner of acting and thinking here totally different from what your letters from Rome have described to me. That you have bad just subjects of indignation always, and of anger often, I do no ways doubt ; who can live in the world without some trial of his patience?