New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... never was in so good a way before . He has a regular family , honest ser- vants , and every thing is managed genteelly and with economy ; he has entrusted all his English affairs to a mighty honest friendly man , Captain Vincent , who ...
... never was in so good a way before . He has a regular family , honest ser- vants , and every thing is managed genteelly and with economy ; he has entrusted all his English affairs to a mighty honest friendly man , Captain Vincent , who ...
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... never exchanged a word with that gentleman since I carried Jemmy Kirk- patrick to him , and our acquaintance has entirely dropped . I am , dear sir , your most affectionate friend and humble servant , DAVID HUME . DAVID HUME TO DR ...
... never exchanged a word with that gentleman since I carried Jemmy Kirk- patrick to him , and our acquaintance has entirely dropped . I am , dear sir , your most affectionate friend and humble servant , DAVID HUME . DAVID HUME TO DR ...
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... never sees any faults in his friends . Millar exults and brags that two thirds of the edition are already sold , and that he is now sure of success . You see what a son of the earth that is , to value books only by the profit they bring ...
... never sees any faults in his friends . Millar exults and brags that two thirds of the edition are already sold , and that he is now sure of success . You see what a son of the earth that is , to value books only by the profit they bring ...
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... never doubt of my friend's probity or honour ; but often of his attachment to me , and sometimes , as I have afterwards found , without reason . If such was my disposition even in youth , you may judge that , having arrived at a time of ...
... never doubt of my friend's probity or honour ; but often of his attachment to me , and sometimes , as I have afterwards found , without reason . If such was my disposition even in youth , you may judge that , having arrived at a time of ...
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... never yet accuse myself , dear madam , of hypocrisy or dissimulation ; and I was surely guilty of these vices in the highest degree , if I wrote you a letter which carried with it any marks of indifference . What I said in particular ...
... never yet accuse myself , dear madam , of hypocrisy or dissimulation ; and I was surely guilty of these vices in the highest degree , if I wrote you a letter which carried with it any marks of indifference . What I said in particular ...
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acquaintance Adieu admire affectionate agreeable amusement arrived Ballyduff believe certainly character CHARLES SYMMONS compliments CURRAN DAVID HUME DEAR FRIEND dear Garret DEAR LORD dear madam dear sir dine doubt DUBLIN Duke EDMUND BURKE England English expect favour fear feel flatter France French friendship Gerrard Street GIBBON TO LORD give gout happy hear HOLROYD honour hope HORACE WALPOLE humble servant Ireland Lausanne least letter live London look Lord Rockingham LORD SHEFFIELD Lord Shelburne lordship manner ment Midgham mind months Nagle nature never obliged opinion Paris parliament passed perhaps person pleased pleasure politics poor present prince Prince of Conti remember sincere soon spirit summer sure talk taste tell thing thought tion TOPHAM BEAUCLERK town Vierville week WILLIAM COWPER winter wish write
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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?