The Quarterly Review, Volume 125John Murray, 1868 |
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Pagina 6
... Court , a good and wise friend , who had known and loved him from childhood , took him under his special care . On his suggestion , possibly by his help , David and his brother George were sent as pupils to Johnson's academy at Edial ...
... Court , a good and wise friend , who had known and loved him from childhood , took him under his special care . On his suggestion , possibly by his help , David and his brother George were sent as pupils to Johnson's academy at Edial ...
Pagina 15
... court the young actor's acquaintance , the adverse whispers of the few , who are always too wise to believe in what all the rest of mankind believe in , were of small account . Gray might pooh - pooh the new genius , and Walpole ...
... court the young actor's acquaintance , the adverse whispers of the few , who are always too wise to believe in what all the rest of mankind believe in , were of small account . Gray might pooh - pooh the new genius , and Walpole ...
Pagina 22
... court at St. James's . ' But the lady becoming alarmed by a storm during the passage , her voice , no less than her fears , at once betrayed her to Carlyle . This led to an avowal of her pro- fession , and of the object of her journey ...
... court at St. James's . ' But the lady becoming alarmed by a storm during the passage , her voice , no less than her fears , at once betrayed her to Carlyle . This led to an avowal of her pro- fession , and of the object of her journey ...
Pagina 23
... Court . She did not seem at all to recognise me , ' he says , which was no wonder at the end of twelve years , having thrown away my bag - wig and sword , and appearing in my own grisly hairs , and in parson's clothes . The twelve years ...
... Court . She did not seem at all to recognise me , ' he says , which was no wonder at the end of twelve years , having thrown away my bag - wig and sword , and appearing in my own grisly hairs , and in parson's clothes . The twelve years ...
Pagina 45
... Court he had always been a favourite , and there was a talk of knighting him ; this distinction , however , he declined . ' I should never have supposed it to have been of your own seeking , ' writes Mrs. Pye ( 15th April , 1777 ) ...
... Court he had always been a favourite , and there was a talk of knighting him ; this distinction , however , he declined . ' I should never have supposed it to have been of your own seeking , ' writes Mrs. Pye ( 15th April , 1777 ) ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 167 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Pagina 137 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Pagina 178 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Pagina 89 - I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Pagina 515 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife " Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Pagina 103 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind...
Pagina 233 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Pagina 87 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Pagina 82 - And only thro' the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground: Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold: Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main...
Pagina 88 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.