New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... feel the reflection this instant , as the stroke of a poniard at my heart ; and the tear at present starts in my eye when it recurs to me . Is it necessary that my sympathy too should furnish you with arms against me ? But I perceive ...
... feel the reflection this instant , as the stroke of a poniard at my heart ; and the tear at present starts in my eye when it recurs to me . Is it necessary that my sympathy too should furnish you with arms against me ? But I perceive ...
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... feel all your misfortunes . Poor Bolton ! I saw it in the newspaper . Is Ridley with you ? I suspect not but if he is , assure him I do not forget him , though he does me . Adieu ; and believe me , most affectionately yours , E. GIBBON ...
... feel all your misfortunes . Poor Bolton ! I saw it in the newspaper . Is Ridley with you ? I suspect not but if he is , assure him I do not forget him , though he does me . Adieu ; and believe me , most affectionately yours , E. GIBBON ...
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... friendship , assisted indeed by the powers of fear and shame . But when I have seated myself before a table , and begin to revolve all that I have seen and tasted during this busy period , I feel myself oppressed LETTERS . 55.
... friendship , assisted indeed by the powers of fear and shame . But when I have seated myself before a table , and begin to revolve all that I have seen and tasted during this busy period , I feel myself oppressed LETTERS . 55.
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... feel myself oppressed and confounded ; and I am very near throwing away the pen , and resigning myself to indolent despair . A complete history would re- quire a volume , at least , as corpulent as the Decline and Fall ; and if I ...
... feel myself oppressed and confounded ; and I am very near throwing away the pen , and resigning myself to indolent despair . A complete history would re- quire a volume , at least , as corpulent as the Decline and Fall ; and if I ...
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... feel myself easy and happy in their company , and only regret that I did not come over two or three months sooner . Though Paris throughout the summer promises me a very agreeable society , yet I am hurt every day by the departure of ...
... feel myself easy and happy in their company , and only regret that I did not come over two or three months sooner . Though Paris throughout the summer promises me a very agreeable society , yet I am hurt every day by the departure of ...
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Страница 306 - On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below; And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Страница 200 - He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected too one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend; think how unpleasant a situation ! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Страница 340 - This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Страница 204 - It is plain I never knew for how many trades I was formed, when at this time of day I can begin electioneering, and succeed in my new vocation. Think of me, the subject of a mob, who was scarce ever before in a mob, addressing them in the town-hall, riding at the head of two thousand people through such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them amid bumpers, huzzas, songs, and tobacco, and finishing with country dancing at a ball and sixpenny whisk...
Страница 264 - Until very lately, I had never heard any thing of your proceedings from others ; and when I did, it was much less than I had known from yourself, that you had been upon ill terms with the artists and virtuosi in Rome, without much mention of cause or consequence. • If you have improved these unfortunate quarrels to your advancement in your art, you have turned a very disagreeable circumstance to a very capital advantage. However you may have succeeded in this uncommon attempt, permit me to suggest...
Страница 176 - ... through his fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this ? Thus, however, it is, and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it,...
Страница 371 - ... politics I have nothing to do ; they differ from mine, which renders it difficult for me to speak of them. But he is perfectly sincere in them, — and sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile. I pray you therefore to correct or soften that passage. You may perhaps attribute this officiousness of mine to a false affectation of candour, as I happen to be a writer also. Attribute it to what motive you please, but believe the truth. I say that Walter Scott is as nearly a thorough good...
Страница 205 - I have borne it all cheerfully ; nay, have sat hours in conversation, the thing upon the earth that I hate, have been to hear Misses play on the harpsichord, and to see an alderman's copies of Rubens and Carlo Marat. Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilized ; their very language is polished since I lived among them.
Страница 279 - ... impossible not to admire ; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and must have a strong hand, like that of their former masters, to coerce them.
Страница 278 - As to us here, our thoughts of every thing at home arc suspended by our astonishment at the .wonderful spectacle which is exhibited in a neighbouring and rival country. What spectators, and what actors ! England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for liberty, and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud.