The Gentlest Art: A Choice of Letters, by Entertaining HandsEdward Verrall Lucas Macmillan, 1907 - 422 страници |
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affectionate amuse beautiful believe bless brother called Carlyle Charles Dickens Charles Lamb Chawton COMBE FLOREY comfort daughter dear delight Dickens dine dinner Edward FitzGerald eyes father feel gentleman give glad hand happy head hear heard heart honour hope Horace Walpole horses John John Keats kind Lady letter LEWIS CARROLL live London look Lord Madame Madame du Deffand Mary miles mind Miss morning mother Mürren never night once perhaps pleasure poor Pray pretty reason received remember RICHARD STEELE seems seen sent servant Skiddaw streets suppose sure SYDNEY SMITH talk tell thank thing thought to-day to-morrow told Tom Moody town trees walk week Weller wife William Cowper wish woman write yesterday young Young Ireland
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Страница 352 - At the foot of one of these squats ME I (il penseroso), and there grow to the trunk for a whole morning. The timorous hare and sporting squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there.
Страница 129 - Hyperion" — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Страница 225 - Such-a-one : it is so with physicians (I will not speak of my own trade), soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man — although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Страница 119 - I set out with Mary to Keswick, without giving Coleridge any notice, for my time, being precious, did not admit of it. He received us with all the hospitality in the world, and gave up his time to show us all the wonders of the country.
Страница 389 - Mary my dear) altho it does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up by, and all in two minutes and a quarter.
Страница 351 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Страница 277 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Страница 389 - Nothin' like it," replied his father. " But don't you think it means more ? " inquired Sam. " Veil p'raps it is a more tenderer word," said Mr. Weller, after a few moments' reflection.
Страница 352 - We have old Mr. Southern at a Gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old, and has almost wholly lost his memory ; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Страница 38 - Mrs. Leicester'; the best you may suppose mine; the next best are my coadjutor's. You may amuse yourself in guessing them out; but I must tell you mine are but one-third in quantity of the whole. So much for a very delicate subject. It is hard to speak of one's self, etc.