The Great English Letter Writers, المجلد 1William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908 |
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... , without genuine misery . Italy he loves with a profound affection . He cannot make up his mind to leave her shores even when the security of his own life He demands the sacrifice . His letters written in exile are 14 THE DEVELOPMENT OF.
... , without genuine misery . Italy he loves with a profound affection . He cannot make up his mind to leave her shores even when the security of his own life He demands the sacrifice . His letters written in exile are 14 THE DEVELOPMENT OF.
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... Italian Revival of Learning was the discovery by Petrarch at Vercelli of Cicero's letters " Ad Familiares , " a copy of which , made in Petrarch's own handwriting , is still extant . In the year 1345 he also brought to light at Verona a ...
... Italian Revival of Learning was the discovery by Petrarch at Vercelli of Cicero's letters " Ad Familiares , " a copy of which , made in Petrarch's own handwriting , is still extant . In the year 1345 he also brought to light at Verona a ...
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... Italy . On his return , he abandoned business and became travelling companion to a young gentleman , with whom he revisited France . Later he was ap- pointed secretary to Lord Scrope , President of The North , and in 1627 was elected to ...
... Italy . On his return , he abandoned business and became travelling companion to a young gentleman , with whom he revisited France . Later he was ap- pointed secretary to Lord Scrope , President of The North , and in 1627 was elected to ...
الصفحة 100
... Italian ideas almost sinks before the warm nature of Flemish colouring . Alas ! don't I grow old ? My young imagination was fired with Guido's ideas ; must they be plump and prominent as Abishag to warm me now ? Doth great youth feel ...
... Italian ideas almost sinks before the warm nature of Flemish colouring . Alas ! don't I grow old ? My young imagination was fired with Guido's ideas ; must they be plump and prominent as Abishag to warm me now ? Doth great youth feel ...
الصفحة 108
... Italy , and there , at Venice , gave His body to that pleasant country's earth , And his pure soul unto his captain , Christ , Under whose colours he had fought so long . Before I left Venice , I had returned to you your late , and Mr ...
... Italy , and there , at Venice , gave His body to that pleasant country's earth , And his pure soul unto his captain , Christ , Under whose colours he had fought so long . Before I left Venice , I had returned to you your late , and Mr ...
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الصفحة 198 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
الصفحة 208 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
الصفحة 198 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
الصفحة 13 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
الصفحة 188 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
الصفحة 197 - 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 271 - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
الصفحة 188 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
الصفحة 178 - I look upon you as a man called by sorrow and anguish and a strange desolation of hopes into quietness, and a soul set apart and made peculiar to God...
الصفحة 206 - This he said to us. Indeed it was admirable. A little after, he said, One thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, What that was ? He told me it was, That God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of His enemies.