My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My DescendantsSmith, Elder, & Company, 1896 - 440 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... interesting to us to know that , even on that eventful day , he found time to write the following letter to his old friend : - ' Victory , ' Largos Bay : February 14 , 1797 . My dear Locker , -I know you will be desirous of a line from ...
... interesting to us to know that , even on that eventful day , he found time to write the following letter to his old friend : - ' Victory , ' Largos Bay : February 14 , 1797 . My dear Locker , -I know you will be desirous of a line from ...
Pagina 23
... at its height ; and my father was the bearer of important despatches from Lord William Bentinck to the Duke of Wellington . In May , 1814 , my father was charged with another interesting mission , this time in H.M.S. ' Curaçoa.
... at its height ; and my father was the bearer of important despatches from Lord William Bentinck to the Duke of Wellington . In May , 1814 , my father was charged with another interesting mission , this time in H.M.S. ' Curaçoa.
Pagina 24
An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants Frederick Locker-Lampson Augustine Birrell. another interesting mission , this time in H.M.S. ' Curaçoa , ' Captain Towers , to Elba , where Napoleon had just arrived from Fréjus ...
An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants Frederick Locker-Lampson Augustine Birrell. another interesting mission , this time in H.M.S. ' Curaçoa , ' Captain Towers , to Elba , where Napoleon had just arrived from Fréjus ...
Pagina 36
... interesting an episode into my trifling little volume . My father married my mother in 1815. If you read this memoir you will find her often men- tioned . She was the daughter of the Rev. Jonathan Boucher , an excellent divine and ...
... interesting an episode into my trifling little volume . My father married my mother in 1815. If you read this memoir you will find her often men- tioned . She was the daughter of the Rev. Jonathan Boucher , an excellent divine and ...
Pagina 46
... interesting relative of mine , but I have a boy's recollection that he was smooth , sleek , and sonorous ; that he turned out his toes with a strut ; and that there was a plaintive pietism in his sermons , aimed at nothing . This was ...
... interesting relative of mine , but I have a boy's recollection that he was smooth , sleek , and sonorous ; that he turned out his toes with a strut ; and that there was a plaintive pietism in his sermons , aimed at nothing . This was ...
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My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants Frederick Locker-Lampson Volledige weergave - 1896 |
My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants Frederick Locker-Lampson Volledige weergave - 1896 |
My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants Frederick Locker-Lampson Volledige weergave - 1895 |
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Pagina 240 - OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Pagina 123 - They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered In; His name was Mr William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon's Inn.
Pagina 277 - And the hostler that sung about eight years ago ? And where is your sister, so mild and so dear, Whose voice to her maids like a trumpet was clear ?"
Pagina 385 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Pagina 152 - Her physique was peculiar : curls like the pendent ears of a water-spaniel, and poor little hands — so thin that when she welcomed you she gave you something like the foot of a young bird ; the Hand that made her great had not made her fair.
Pagina 113 - To be more prince) as may be. You are sad. Hub. Indeed, I have been merrier. Arth. Mercy on me! Methinks, nobody should be sad but I : Yet, I remember, when I was in France, Young gentlemen would be as sad as night, Only for wantonness. By my Christendom, So I were out of prison, and kept sheep, I should be as merry as the day is long...
Pagina 72 - Four ducks on a pond, A grass bank beyond, A blue sky of Spring, White clouds on the wing : What a little thing To remember for years — To remember with tears.
Pagina 84 - The nappy reeks wi' mantling ream, An' sheds a heart-inspiring steam ; The luntin pipe, an' sneeshin mill, Are handed round wi' right guid will ; The cantie auld folks crackin crouse, The young anes ranting thro' the house,— My heart has been sae fain to see them, That I for joy hae barkit wi
Pagina 166 - I have sat at my meals before it for seven and forty years ; and such are the changes that have taken place among us — so many have come and gone in the time — that, when I look upon the company there — upon those who are sitting at that table, silent as they are — I am sometimes inclined to think that we, and not they, are the shadows.
Pagina 410 - In the retirement of his later years, he was enabled to cultivate this taste with every advantage, and numbered among his familiar friends some of the most eminent persons of his own time. Saturday was devoted to receiving men of literature and science at his table. On these occasions we were always permitted to be present, and looked forward with delight to this weekly festival, which contributed essentially to our improvement as well as to our amusement. He lost no opportunity of affording us instruction....