The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey |
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الصفحة 508
... the qualifications of dancing and fencing to that natural gentility of manner ,
which no art can bestow , but with which our great , mother Nature endows many
, even from infancy , his deportment was constantly easy , natural , and engaging
.
... the qualifications of dancing and fencing to that natural gentility of manner ,
which no art can bestow , but with which our great , mother Nature endows many
, even from infancy , his deportment was constantly easy , natural , and engaging
.
الصفحة 512
Of the time he spent in this servile employment , or the manner in which he
occupied his leisure , no account has been given . His own entreaties are said to
have prevailed upon his master to cancel the contract subsisting between them .
Of the time he spent in this servile employment , or the manner in which he
occupied his leisure , no account has been given . His own entreaties are said to
have prevailed upon his master to cancel the contract subsisting between them .
الصفحة 559
At the same elevation are two monuments , which demand particular notice , as
much on account of the striking manner in which they are finished , as the
particular reputation of the names they record . Of these , the one nearest to
Handel ...
At the same elevation are two monuments , which demand particular notice , as
much on account of the striking manner in which they are finished , as the
particular reputation of the names they record . Of these , the one nearest to
Handel ...
الصفحة 572
The next object which attracted his attention was one of evident utility : in 1754 , a
Mr. Spranger of Covent Garden , proposed that Westminster should be paved in
a uniform manner ; and Hanway immediately addressed a letter to the projector ...
The next object which attracted his attention was one of evident utility : in 1754 , a
Mr. Spranger of Covent Garden , proposed that Westminster should be paved in
a uniform manner ; and Hanway immediately addressed a letter to the projector ...
الصفحة 722
The principal obstacle he had to encounter , was a want of fluency in his periods ,
and impressiveness in his manner of delivery ; faults which must ever keep the
most cultivated far removed from success in lecturing . That a mind forcible in its ...
The principal obstacle he had to encounter , was a want of fluency in his periods ,
and impressiveness in his manner of delivery ; faults which must ever keep the
most cultivated far removed from success in lecturing . That a mind forcible in its ...
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الصفحة 624 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
الصفحة 601 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 624 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
الصفحة 834 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
الصفحة 623 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
الصفحة 668 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
الصفحة 667 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
الصفحة 545 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
الصفحة 883 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
الصفحة 511 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...
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| العنوان | The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey المجلد 2 من The Monuments and Genii of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey, George Lewis Smyth المجلد 2 من The Monuments and Genii of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey: With Historical Sketches and Descriptions of Both Churches : Forming an Entirely New and Correct Biography of All that is Interesting in the Lives and Achievements of the Most Illustrious Characters of the United Kingdoms, George Lewis Smyth |
| المؤلف | George Lewis Smyth |
| الناشر | John Williams, 1826 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 19 آذار (مارس) 2007 |
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