Anecdotes and Reminiscences of Illustrious Men and Women of Modern TimesReeves and Turner, 1900 - 357 páginas |
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... some of the more solid facts offered in the several collections of English and foreign Ana has been the directing principle here . Although he has not kept out of 278 view by any means the advantage of continuing utili dulci.
... some of the more solid facts offered in the several collections of English and foreign Ana has been the directing principle here . Although he has not kept out of 278 view by any means the advantage of continuing utili dulci.
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William Carew Hazlitt. view by any means the advantage of continuing utili dulci , the aim of the Editor has been more to amuse than to instruct . Of the two things , the Editor hardly knows whether the former is not the more adventurous ...
William Carew Hazlitt. view by any means the advantage of continuing utili dulci , the aim of the Editor has been more to amuse than to instruct . Of the two things , the Editor hardly knows whether the former is not the more adventurous ...
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... means so slender ; but what did Stephen Duck do , what could Chat- terton do , which , abstracted from the recollection of his situation , can be worth the attention of learning and taste ? Neither of them had oppor- tunities of ...
... means so slender ; but what did Stephen Duck do , what could Chat- terton do , which , abstracted from the recollection of his situation , can be worth the attention of learning and taste ? Neither of them had oppor- tunities of ...
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... means of a hole made through the adjoining wall ; by which contrivance the statue appeared to shed tears . When the vine ceased to drop , the stratagem was carried on by means of oil . Many superstitious persons crowded to see this ...
... means of a hole made through the adjoining wall ; by which contrivance the statue appeared to shed tears . When the vine ceased to drop , the stratagem was carried on by means of oil . Many superstitious persons crowded to see this ...
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... mean disavowal of it was despicable . But there is no wondering that he was irritated , and grew to hate the being he had once too fondly admired ; since , in the zenith of his admiration , it reached his ear that she had lyingly called ...
... mean disavowal of it was despicable . But there is no wondering that he was irritated , and grew to hate the being he had once too fondly admired ; since , in the zenith of his admiration , it reached his ear that she had lyingly called ...
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Página 302 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Página 215 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Página 15 - Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? — To all these noble lords, the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.
Página 15 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, — not I the peerage.
Página 34 - The proverbs of several nations were much studied by Bishop Andrews, and the reason he gave was, because by them he knew the minds of several nations, which is a brave thing ; as we count him a wise man that knows the minds and insides of men, which is done by knowing what is habitual to them.
Página 75 - There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever was.
Página 180 - I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 293 - DEAR Sir Walter Scott and myself were exact, but harmonious, opposites in this : — that every old ruin, hill, river, or tree called up in his mind a host of historical or biographical associations, — just as a bright pan of brass, when beaten, is said to attract the swarming bees ; — whereas, for myself, notwithstanding Dr.
Página 282 - Some of his epithets are particularly amusing; for instance, he calls Chorebus, one of the Trojan chiefs, a bedlamite; says that Old Priam girded on his sword morglay, the name of a sword in the Gothic romances ; that Dido would have been glad to have been brought to bed, even of a cockney, a dandiprat hop-thumb; and that Jupiter, in kissing his daughter, Venus, bust his pretty-prating parrot ; and that ^Eneas was fain to trudge out of Troy. We must, also, introduce a specimen, of his rhyme, taken...
Página 180 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.