Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1819 - 376 страници |
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... hands , are , I assure you , among the most valued testimonies of approbation which have ever come in my way . To receive applause from one's ac- quaintances , is more delightful than to re- ceive it from strangers ; but the most pre ...
... hands , are , I assure you , among the most valued testimonies of approbation which have ever come in my way . To receive applause from one's ac- quaintances , is more delightful than to re- ceive it from strangers ; but the most pre ...
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... to Mr Ballantyne ; but I have a friend in Edinburgh , ( a Mr Wastle , ) who will find it quite an amusement to su- perintend all that affair ; and , by the way , I am a very bad hand at correcting proofs myself EPISTLE LIMINARY . xi.
... to Mr Ballantyne ; but I have a friend in Edinburgh , ( a Mr Wastle , ) who will find it quite an amusement to su- perintend all that affair ; and , by the way , I am a very bad hand at correcting proofs myself EPISTLE LIMINARY . xi.
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John Gibson Lockhart. I am a very bad hand at correcting proofs myself , for I read them so quickly , that my eye passes over a thousand errata , for one that escapes the observation of a person more accustomed to such things . What you ...
John Gibson Lockhart. I am a very bad hand at correcting proofs myself , for I read them so quickly , that my eye passes over a thousand errata , for one that escapes the observation of a person more accustomed to such things . What you ...
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... hands , I feel shy about pushing my rude efforts upon the public . I have , there- fore , packed up only a very few specimens -not at all for the engraver - but merely as a present to Mrs Davies , which I beg she will accept , as also ...
... hands , I feel shy about pushing my rude efforts upon the public . I have , there- fore , packed up only a very few specimens -not at all for the engraver - but merely as a present to Mrs Davies , which I beg she will accept , as also ...
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... hands , and those of Mr Blackwood . I hear the cry for the book is great , particularly in the North ; therefore do bestir yourselves , and have PETER out before the rising of Parliament . * The portrait of Dr Morris is done in this new ...
... hands , and those of Mr Blackwood . I hear the cry for the book is great , particularly in the North ; therefore do bestir yourselves , and have PETER out before the rising of Parliament . * The portrait of Dr Morris is done in this new ...
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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