Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1819 - 376 страници |
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... half from the city , and between the city and the sea there rises on each side of it a hill - to the south that called Arthur's Seat - to the north the lower and yet sufficiently commanding eminence on which I now stood - the Calton ...
... half from the city , and between the city and the sea there rises on each side of it a hill - to the south that called Arthur's Seat - to the north the lower and yet sufficiently commanding eminence on which I now stood - the Calton ...
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... commencement of his exa- mination . The man is half - mad in some things ; and that is the key of the whole mystery . Wastle and I were great friends during the first terms I spent at Jesus . He had gone 13 LETTER II Mr Wastle of Wastle.
... commencement of his exa- mination . The man is half - mad in some things ; and that is the key of the whole mystery . Wastle and I were great friends during the first terms I spent at Jesus . He had gone 13 LETTER II Mr Wastle of Wastle.
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... - these were the regular conclusion . I would give half I am worth to live one week of it over again . At that time , Wastle and I , Tom Vere ( of Corpus , ) and one or two more , were never separate above three or 14 MR WASTLE .
... - these were the regular conclusion . I would give half I am worth to live one week of it over again . At that time , Wastle and I , Tom Vere ( of Corpus , ) and one or two more , were never separate above three or 14 MR WASTLE .
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... half a dozen bumpers of claret had somewhat smoothed its asperities , I could al- most have fancied myself to be once more trans- ported back to the common - room of Trinity or Jesus . To you , who know us of old , I need scarcely add ...
... half a dozen bumpers of claret had somewhat smoothed its asperities , I could al- most have fancied myself to be once more trans- ported back to the common - room of Trinity or Jesus . To you , who know us of old , I need scarcely add ...
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... his stand with the assurance of an athletic , and positively beat every one of us -- the very best of us , at least half a heel's breadth . I was quite thunderstruck , ne- ver 66 CRAIG - CROOK - LEAPING . Craig-Crook-Leaping Mr Playfair.
... his stand with the assurance of an athletic , and positively beat every one of us -- the very best of us , at least half a heel's breadth . I was quite thunderstruck , ne- ver 66 CRAIG - CROOK - LEAPING . Craig-Crook-Leaping Mr Playfair.
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ABERYSTWITH able acquaintance admiration Albert Durer already ancient appearance beauty believe Blue-stocking called Calton Hill character choly Christ Church meadows claret countenance Craniology Curaçoa dark David Hume DAVID WILLIAMS DEAR DAVID delight dinner doubt Dr Chalmers Edinburgh Edinburgh Review effect entirely expression eyes face feeling fore genius gentlemen give glorious head hear heard Holyrood honour huge ideas imagination intellect Jeffrey kind ladies least less lofty look Lord Mackenzie manner matter means melan Melrose Abbey ment mind nation nature never OMAN'S once P. M. LETTER pect perhaps person PETER MORRIS physiognomy Playfair poet portrait possible present Professor regard residence scarcely Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen shandrydan Sicambri Society sort Speculative Society spirit stranger street style sufficient suspect thing thought tion town true truth walked Wastle whole wonder young your's
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Страница 183 - Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil.
Страница 224 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Страница 127 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Страница 138 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...
Страница 145 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Страница 184 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man, My haunt, and the main region of my Song.
Страница 115 - Muse's lyre. Not beggar's brat on bulk begot ; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot ; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews...
Страница 145 - He had small need of books ; for many a tale Traditionary, round the mountains hung, And many a legend, peopling the dark woods, Nourished Imagination in her growth, And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things.
Страница 119 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Страница 130 - In complexion, he is the best specimen I have ever seen of the genuine or ideal Goth. His hair is of the true Sicambrian yellow ; his eyes are of the lightest, and at the same time of the clearest blue ; and the blood glows in his cheek with as firm a fervour as it did, according to the description of Jornandes, in those of the " Bello gaudentes, prselio ridentes Teutones