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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... recollected Johnson well , as she used to see him often in her girlhood . Her mother , Lady Lucan , would say , " Nobody dines with us to- day ; therefore , child , we'll go and get Dr. Johnson . " So they would drive to Bolt Court ...
... recollected Johnson well , as she used to see him often in her girlhood . Her mother , Lady Lucan , would say , " Nobody dines with us to- day ; therefore , child , we'll go and get Dr. Johnson . " So they would drive to Bolt Court ...
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... recollect when it was still the fashion for gentle- men to wear swords . I have seen Haydn play at a concert in a tie - wig , with a sword at his side . The head - dresses of the ladies , during my youth , " Northcote assured the writer ...
... recollect when it was still the fashion for gentle- men to wear swords . I have seen Haydn play at a concert in a tie - wig , with a sword at his side . The head - dresses of the ladies , during my youth , " Northcote assured the writer ...
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... recollected " Mr. Alex- ander Pope . " This boatman , when a lad , had fre- quently assisted his father in rowing Pope up and down the river . On such occasions Pope generally sat in a sedan - chair . When I first began to publish , I ...
... recollected " Mr. Alex- ander Pope . " This boatman , when a lad , had fre- quently assisted his father in rowing Pope up and down the river . On such occasions Pope generally sat in a sedan - chair . When I first began to publish , I ...
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... recollect at this moment any pause he has , except that in his fine Prologue to Cato ; " The triumph ceas'd ; tears gush'd from every eye ; The world's great victor pass'd unheeded by . " People are now so fond of the obscure in poetry ...
... recollect at this moment any pause he has , except that in his fine Prologue to Cato ; " The triumph ceas'd ; tears gush'd from every eye ; The world's great victor pass'd unheeded by . " People are now so fond of the obscure in poetry ...
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... recollect it . - When I was asked if I had attended the said lectures on the Art of Memory , I replied , " No : I wished to learn the Art of Forgetting . " * One morning , when I was a lad , Wilkes came into our banking - house to ...
... recollect it . - When I was asked if I had attended the said lectures on the Art of Memory , I replied , " No : I wished to learn the Art of Forgetting . " * One morning , when I was a lad , Wilkes came into our banking - house to ...
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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.