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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... called me and my brothers into his room , and asked us each what professions we wished to follow . When my turn came , I said ( to my father's annoyance ) that I should like " to be a preacher ; " for it was then the height of my ...
... called me and my brothers into his room , and asked us each what professions we wished to follow . When my turn came , I said ( to my father's annoyance ) that I should like " to be a preacher ; " for it was then the height of my ...
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... called out , " There it is ! " * " When the Shakespeare Gallery was disposed of by lottery , the building itself , and many of the capital pictures , formed the principal prize , which was won by Mr. Tassie of Leicester Square , who ...
... called out , " There it is ! " * " When the Shakespeare Gallery was disposed of by lottery , the building itself , and many of the capital pictures , formed the principal prize , which was won by Mr. Tassie of Leicester Square , who ...
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... called upon me , on learning from the landlord who I was , and that Adam Smith , Robertson , and Mackenzie had left cards for me . I was afterwards very intimate with the Piozzis , and visited them often at Streatham . The world was ...
... called upon me , on learning from the landlord who I was , and that Adam Smith , Robertson , and Mackenzie had left cards for me . I was afterwards very intimate with the Piozzis , and visited them often at Streatham . The world was ...
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... writers in what may be called the middle style , -Addison , Middleton , Jortin , & c .; but in the highest prose- style we have none to be compared with Bossuet , Pascal , or Buffon . - We have far better 50 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE.
... writers in what may be called the middle style , -Addison , Middleton , Jortin , & c .; but in the highest prose- style we have none to be compared with Bossuet , Pascal , or Buffon . - We have far better 50 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE.
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... called at the door , and desired the waiter to give a note to Dunning ( with whom , though their politics were so different , he was very intimate ) . The waiter did not know Dunning by sight . " Take the note upstairs , " said Thurlow ...
... called at the door , and desired the waiter to give a note to Dunning ( with whom , though their politics were so different , he was very intimate ) . The waiter did not know Dunning by sight . " Take the note upstairs , " said Thurlow ...
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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!
Стр. 238 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled And still his...
Стр. 28 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...
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.
Стр. 207 - I wish you would do something for poor Wordsworth, who is in such * " Coleridge," writes Wordsworth, " was at that time in bad spirits, and somewhat too much in love with his own dejection...
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.