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Page 127
Having always had a taste for history , I recollect with what pleasure in my walks
and hours of leisure I visited the many places of historic interest in that ancient
city . It was pleasing to think one trod on ground now classic , and that must be so
...
Having always had a taste for history , I recollect with what pleasure in my walks
and hours of leisure I visited the many places of historic interest in that ancient
city . It was pleasing to think one trod on ground now classic , and that must be so
...
Page 130
Some half hour had passed over , when a sweet and plaintive voice said , “ What
is the time , ma ' am ? — is it night or is it morning ? I have been dreaming , and
am bewildered . ” “ ' Tis but half - past seven , love , and here is the doctor - here ...
Some half hour had passed over , when a sweet and plaintive voice said , “ What
is the time , ma ' am ? — is it night or is it morning ? I have been dreaming , and
am bewildered . ” “ ' Tis but half - past seven , love , and here is the doctor - here ...
Page 131
Coffee was ordered , and the gentleman did not go till twelve o ' clock , after
which he returned to the Waterloo Hotel , where for some days they had been
staying . On the following morning he came about ten o ' clock , remained an hour
...
Coffee was ordered , and the gentleman did not go till twelve o ' clock , after
which he returned to the Waterloo Hotel , where for some days they had been
staying . On the following morning he came about ten o ' clock , remained an hour
...
Page 140
Such the fancies of his active boyhood — such his happiness when “
confinement ' s lingering hour was done . “ Possessing faculties created for
energy and action , it was a task to remain in palling quiet , and he constantly
sought some object ...
Such the fancies of his active boyhood — such his happiness when “
confinement ' s lingering hour was done . “ Possessing faculties created for
energy and action , it was a task to remain in palling quiet , and he constantly
sought some object ...
Page 148
In the following years “ The Vicar of Wrexhill ” made his celebrated début ; and to
this hour that clerical notoriety is considered by many - taking him and his history
together — the masterpiece of his race . As usual , the story bristles with satire ...
In the following years “ The Vicar of Wrexhill ” made his celebrated début ; and to
this hour that clerical notoriety is considered by many - taking him and his history
together — the masterpiece of his race . As usual , the story bristles with satire ...
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
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Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
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