Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana, Том 1H. A. Rogers, 1887 - Всего страниц: 371 |
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... Duke de la Rochefoucauld , Condorcet , & c . ) , most of whom afterwards came to an untimely end . At a dinner - party in Paris , given by a French " But we distinguish , said I , laying my hand upon the sleeve of his ( the Monk's ) ...
... Duke de la Rochefoucauld , Condorcet , & c . ) , most of whom afterwards came to an untimely end . At a dinner - party in Paris , given by a French " But we distinguish , said I , laying my hand upon the sleeve of his ( the Monk's ) ...
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... Duke of York's , & c . , & c . I asked Erskine if he really was the author of two little poems attributed to him , -The Geranium and The Birth of the Rose . He replied that The Geranium was written by him ; that the other was not his ...
... Duke of York's , & c . , & c . I asked Erskine if he really was the author of two little poems attributed to him , -The Geranium and The Birth of the Rose . He replied that The Geranium was written by him ; that the other was not his ...
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... Duke of York was obliged to retreat before the French , t Sheridan gave as a toast , " The Duke of York and his brave followers . " * But , as reported in The Morning Chronicle , June , 14 , 1788 , the expression used by Sheridan was ...
... Duke of York was obliged to retreat before the French , t Sheridan gave as a toast , " The Duke of York and his brave followers . " * But , as reported in The Morning Chronicle , June , 14 , 1788 , the expression used by Sheridan was ...
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... him , nor seem to hear any of the good things he said . It was the most painful scene of the kind I was ever witness to , except what occurred at my own house , when the Duke of Wellington treated Lord 82 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE.
... him , nor seem to hear any of the good things he said . It was the most painful scene of the kind I was ever witness to , except what occurred at my own house , when the Duke of Wellington treated Lord 82 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE.
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... Duke of Richmond , Fox , and Burke , were once conversing about history , philosophy , and poetry . The Duke said , " I prefer reading history to philoso- * " During the debates on the war with France , I heard Fox characterise a speech ...
... Duke of Richmond , Fox , and Burke , were once conversing about history , philosophy , and poetry . The Duke said , " I prefer reading history to philoso- * " During the debates on the war with France , I heard Fox characterise a speech ...
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Стр. 194 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
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Стр. 238 - tis haunted, holy ground; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon; Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Стр. 240 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Стр. 38 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
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Стр. 229 - No; he never took soup.' - Would he take some fish? 'No; he never took fish.' - Presently I asked if he would eat some mutton? 'No; he never ate mutton.' - I then asked if he would take a glass of wine? 'No; he never tasted wine.' — It was now necessary to inquire what he did eat and drink; and the answer was, 'Nothing but hard biscuits and soda-water.
Стр. 99 - I i reflect not only, that a character of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed with any vices, as that of Washington, is hardly to be found in the pages of history...
Стр. 222 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.