Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Том 2H. Colburn, 1828 - 450 страници |
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... makes it a grace to write under him . I remember , one day at Sydenham , Mr. Theodore Hook came in unexpectedly to din- ner , and amused us very much with his talent at extempore verse . He was then a youth , 8 MR . THEODORE HOOK .
... makes it a grace to write under him . I remember , one day at Sydenham , Mr. Theodore Hook came in unexpectedly to din- ner , and amused us very much with his talent at extempore verse . He was then a youth , 8 MR . THEODORE HOOK .
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... verse . He was then a youth , tall , dark , and of a good person , with small eyes , and features more round than weak ; a face that had character and humour , but no refinement . His extempore verses were really surprising . It is easy ...
... verse . He was then a youth , tall , dark , and of a good person , with small eyes , and features more round than weak ; a face that had character and humour , but no refinement . His extempore verses were really surprising . It is easy ...
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... verses on us , so Mr. Mathews one day gave an extempore imitation of us all round , with the exception of a fierce young critic , who happened to be present , and in whose appear- ance and manner he pronounced that there was no handle ...
... verses on us , so Mr. Mathews one day gave an extempore imitation of us all round , with the exception of a fierce young critic , who happened to be present , and in whose appear- ance and manner he pronounced that there was no handle ...
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... Of James Smith , a fair , stout , fresh - coloured man with round features , I recollect little , except that he used to read to us trim verses , VOL . II . C with rhymes pat as butter . The best of his MESSRS . JAMES AND HORACE SMITH . 17.
... Of James Smith , a fair , stout , fresh - coloured man with round features , I recollect little , except that he used to read to us trim verses , VOL . II . C with rhymes pat as butter . The best of his MESSRS . JAMES AND HORACE SMITH . 17.
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... verses are in the Rejected Addresses ; and they are excellent . Isaac Hawkins Browne with his Pipe of Tobacco , and ... verse and prose are too full of the ridicule of city pretensions . To be su- perior to any thing , it should not ...
... verses are in the Rejected Addresses ; and they are excellent . Isaac Hawkins Browne with his Pipe of Tobacco , and ... verse and prose are too full of the ridicule of city pretensions . To be su- perior to any thing , it should not ...
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Страница 257 - ... a grassplot. The earth I filled with flowers and young trees. There was an apple-tree, from which we managed to get a pudding the second year. As to my flowers, they were allowed to be perfect. Thomas Moore, who came to see me with Lord Byron, told me he had seen no such heart's-ease. I bought the Parnaso Italiano...
Страница 147 - ... with an air of ineffable endurance. Often he did not hear at all. It was a joke with us, when any of our friends came to the door, and we asked his permission to go to them, to address him with some preposterous question wide of the mark ; to which he used to assent. We would say, for instance, " Are you not a great fool, sir?" or, " Isn't your daughter a pretty girl?" to which he would reply,
Страница 153 - There was a book used by the learners in reading, called Dialogues between a Missionary and an Indian. It was a poor performance, full of inconclusive arguments and other commonplaces. The boy in question used to appear with this book in his hand in the middle of the school, the master standing behind him. The lesson was to begin. Poor , whose great fault lay in a deep-toned drawl of his syllables and the omission of his stops, stood half-looking at the book, and half-casting his eye towards the...
Страница 16 - I knew, have added the paternity; but I had never heard of it, and still less expected to find a child in his house. More obvious and obstreperous proofs, however, of the existence of a boy with a dirty face, could not have been met with.
Страница 124 - Perhaps there is not a foundation in the country so truly English, taking that word to mean what Englishmen wish it to mean — something solid, unpretending, of good character, and free to all. More boys are to be found in it, who issue from a greater variety of ranks, than in any school in the kingdom; and as it is the most various, so it is the largest, of all the free schools.
Страница 52 - Highgate, repeat one of his melodious lamentations, as he walked up and down, his voice undulating in a stream of music, and his regrets of youth sparkling with visions ever young. At the same time, he did me the honour to show me that he did not think so ill of all modern liberalism as some might suppose, denouncing the pretensions of the money-getting in a style which I should hardly venture upon, and never could equal; and asking with a triumphant eloquence what chastity itself were worth, if...
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Страница 147 - As in prcesentis with an air of ineffable endurance. Often he did not hear at all. It was a joke with us, when any of our friends came to the door, and we asked his permission to go to them, to address him with some preposterous question wide of the mark ; to which he used to assent. We would say, for instance, "Are you not a great fool, sir? " or "Isn't your daughter a pretty girl? " to which he would reply, "Yes, child".