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 67 - Why not shillinged, farthinged, tenpenced, &c. ? The formation of a participle passive from a noun is a licence that nothing but a very peculiar felicity can excuse. If mere 'convenience is to justify such attempts upon the idiom, you cannot stop till the language becomes, in the proper sense of the word, corrupt. Most of these pieces of slang come from America.* Never take an iambus as a Christian name.
Страница 435 - 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 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 269 - 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 66 - 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, farfhinged, tenpenced, &c. ? The formation of a participle passive from a noun is a licence that nothing but a very peculiar felicity can excuse.
Страница 277 - 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 72 - I will generally say of them all ; that as each of them are cunning in something whereby they keep themselves occupied in the court, there is in manner none of them but when they be at home can help to supply the ordinary want of the kitchen with a number of delicate dishes of their own devising, wherein the portingal* is their chief counsellor ; some of them are most commonly with the clerk of the kitchen.
Страница 11 - If there were ever human creature ' pure in the last recesses of the soul,' it was surely this meek, this pious, this noble-minded, and nobly-gifted woman, who, after attaining her ninetieth year,1 carried with her to the grave the love, the reverence, the regrets of all who had ever enjoyed the privilege of her society.