Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters: Of the Late Lucy Aikin: Including Those Addressed to the Rev. Dr. Channing from 1826 to 1842Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 - 440 страници |
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Страница 433 - Parisian women, amongst other restraints, salutary or the contrary, emancipated themselves from their stays, and kicked off their petits talons. We followed the example, and, by way of improving upon it, learned to march of the drill-sergeant, mounted boots, and bid defiance to dirt and foul weather. We have now well-developed figures, blooming cheeks, active habits, firm nerves, natural and easy manners, a scorn of affectation, and vigorous constitutions. If your fair daughters would also learn...
Страница 71 - Dap. Do, good sweet captain. Face. Come, noble doctor, pray thee let's prevail; This is the gentleman, and he is no chiaus.
Страница 178 - repeated all he could remember of it to me , and this , Madam , was what made me a poet. I had several times attempted the more regular kinds of poetry without success , but here was something that I thought I could do.
Страница 99 - Thursday last arrived an invitation from the Carrs to my father and my aunt to dine with them the next day, to meet Walter Scott — apologies at the same time that their table would not admit us all. Well! nothing could persuade my father to go, so my aunt said she would take me instead, and I had not the grace to say no. A charming day we had. I did not, indeed, see much of the great lion, for we were fourteen at dinner, of whom about half were constantly talking, and neither at table nor after...
Страница 17 - Yes, ma'am, and no, ma'am, uttered softly, show Every five minutes how the minutes go ; Each individual suffering a constraint, Poetry may, but colours cannot paint, As if in close committee on the sky, Reports it hot or cold, or wet or dry, And finds a changing clime a happy source Of wise reflection and well-timed discourse.
Страница 267 - And with all this, she has given to her narratives a grace, an animation, and often a powerful pathos, rare even in works of pure amusement. Last year she called on me several times, and I was struck with marks of such an energy and resolution in her as, I thought, must command success in some line or other, though it did not then appear in what. She has a vast store of knowledge on many deep and difficult subjects ; a wonderful store for a person scarcely thirty, and her observation of common things...
Страница 67 - I REGRET to see that vile and barbarous vocable talented, stealing out of the newspapers into the leading reviews and most respectable publications of the day. Why not shillinged, farthinged, tenpenced, &c. ? The formation of a participle passive from a noun is a license that nothing but a very peculiar felicity can excuse.
Страница 275 - Several circumstances render society here peculiarly easy and pleasant ; in many respects the place unites the advantages and escapes the evils both of London and provincial towns. It is near enough (to London) to allow its inhabitants to partake in the society, the amusements, and the accommodations of the capital as freely as ever the dissipated could desire ; whilst it affords pure air, lovely scenery, and retired and beautiful walks.
Страница 230 - I rejoice in the hope that you will see him some time, as he speaks of visiting your country, and to know you would be one of his first objects. He is indeed a glorious being, — a true sage, as it appears, with the genuine humility of the character and with more fervour, more sensibility, a more engaging tenderness of heart than any class of character can justly claim. He came to my house, at the suggestion of Dr. Boott, who accompanied him, partly for the purpose of meeting Mrs. Joanna Baillie,...
Страница 276 - ... is supposed to have a London set of friends, neighbours do not think it necessary, as in the provinces, to force their acquaintance upon you ; of local society you may have much, little, or none, as you please ; and with a little, which is very good, you may associate on the easiest terms ; then the summer brings an influx of Londoners who are often genteel and agreeable people, and pleasingly vary the scene. Such is Hampstead : ask Mrs.