The Great English Letter Writers, Volumen1William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908 |
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... hours when he meditated his great revolt , and was aware of the first shadow of his approaching destiny . According to Wolf , in his Prolegomena ad Homerum , the art of writing was introduced into Greece about 1100 B.C.1 It seems ...
... hours when he meditated his great revolt , and was aware of the first shadow of his approaching destiny . According to Wolf , in his Prolegomena ad Homerum , the art of writing was introduced into Greece about 1100 B.C.1 It seems ...
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... hour of distress , and for a scheme of virtue impracticable and romantic ! So I am forced to write for bread ; write the flights of poetic en- thusiasm , when every minute I am hearing a groan from my wife . Groans , and complaints ...
... hour of distress , and for a scheme of virtue impracticable and romantic ! So I am forced to write for bread ; write the flights of poetic en- thusiasm , when every minute I am hearing a groan from my wife . Groans , and complaints ...
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... hour , but I slept some in the intervals ; for they had not succeeded in rousing him above . But last night they had him up at three . He went to bed again , and got some sleep after , the " horrors " not recommencing their efforts till ...
... hour , but I slept some in the intervals ; for they had not succeeded in rousing him above . But last night they had him up at three . He went to bed again , and got some sleep after , the " horrors " not recommencing their efforts till ...
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... hour I used to be going to bed surfeited with pleasure , or jaded with business : my head often full of schemes , and my heart as often full of anxiety . Is it a misfortune , think you , that I rise at this hour , re- freshed , serene ...
... hour I used to be going to bed surfeited with pleasure , or jaded with business : my head often full of schemes , and my heart as often full of anxiety . Is it a misfortune , think you , that I rise at this hour , re- freshed , serene ...
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... hour , -nothing startles me beyond the moment . The Setting Sun will always set me to rights , or if a Sparrow come before my Window , I take part in its ex- istence and pick about the gravel . The first thing that strikes me on hearing ...
... hour , -nothing startles me beyond the moment . The Setting Sun will always set me to rights , or if a Sparrow come before my Window , I take part in its ex- istence and pick about the gravel . The first thing that strikes me on hearing ...
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The Great English Letter-writers, Volumen1 William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Vista completa - 1909 |
The Great English Letter Writers, Volumen1 William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Vista completa - 1909 |
The Great English Letter Writers, Volumen1 William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Vista completa - 1908 |
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Página 196 - 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.
Página 206 - 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.
Página 196 - 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.
Página 11 - 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.
Página 186 - 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.
Página 269 - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
Página 186 - 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.
Página 176 - 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...
Página 36 - ... the reports you have heard, and your own suggestions, may have brought you false information with respect to my character ; it is very possible that the man whom you now regard with detestation may inwardly burn with grateful resentment. It is very possible that, upon a second perusal of the letter I sent you, you may see the workings of a mind strongly agitated with gratitude and jealousy. If such circumstances should appear, at least spare invective till my book with Mr. Dodsley shall be published,...
Página 204 - 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.