The Ladies' Museum, Volumes 1-2James Robins and Company, 1830 - English fiction |
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... light , elegant , and chaste , but generally unimpassioned , school of John Christian Bach . A more elevated rank among musicians , than that which Goldsmith holds among poets , should not be as- signed to him ; and perhaps he should be ...
... light , elegant , and chaste , but generally unimpassioned , school of John Christian Bach . A more elevated rank among musicians , than that which Goldsmith holds among poets , should not be as- signed to him ; and perhaps he should be ...
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... light , take Metastasio , and compose . His genius will animate your own . Like him , you will create . But if , while you listen to these great masters , you remain tranquil , you feel no transport , if you find them merely pretty ...
... light , take Metastasio , and compose . His genius will animate your own . Like him , you will create . But if , while you listen to these great masters , you remain tranquil , you feel no transport , if you find them merely pretty ...
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... light the youthful breast , And they are emblems of the hopes that lull the soul to rest ; They blossom bright at morning time , and breathe a soft perfume , And evening comes , and where are they , but withered in the tomb ? And yet we ...
... light the youthful breast , And they are emblems of the hopes that lull the soul to rest ; They blossom bright at morning time , and breathe a soft perfume , And evening comes , and where are they , but withered in the tomb ? And yet we ...
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... light on him , if he give her gentle bosom aught of pain ! " Twas well for both we were spared the misery of a last adieu . I deemed it , in thy king , refinement of hatred to deny a final interview ; but my heart now tells me he did it ...
... light on him , if he give her gentle bosom aught of pain ! " Twas well for both we were spared the misery of a last adieu . I deemed it , in thy king , refinement of hatred to deny a final interview ; but my heart now tells me he did it ...
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... light and love , To trace the lawny grove , The dew - drops from the greensward brushing ! For vain the light and loveliness Of morn would prove to me , Vain all its witching charms , unless I spend that hour with thee ! One hour with ...
... light and love , To trace the lawny grove , The dew - drops from the greensward brushing ! For vain the light and loveliness Of morn would prove to me , Vain all its witching charms , unless I spend that hour with thee ! One hour with ...
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Page 62 - ... we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the first day of June, on which the Port bill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to implore heaven to avert from us the evils of civil war, to inspire us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King and Parliament to moderation and justice.
Page 17 - He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 67 - But you are, perhaps, curious to know how this new scene has struck a savage of the mountains of America. Not advantageously, I assure you. I find the general fate of humanity here, most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.
Page 110 - Yesterday, a very pretty letter from Annabella, which I answered. What an odd situation and friendship is ours! — without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side, and aversion on the other. She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress — a girl of twenty — a peeress that is to be, in her own right — an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way. She is a poetess —...
Page 64 - I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point, which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.
Page 68 - Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance. Establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles, who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Page 298 - With which the King was greatly offended, and said that then he should be under the law, which was treason to affirm, as he said; to which I said that Bracton saith, quod Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege [that the King ought not to be under man but under God and under the law—BT\.
Page 5 - God would forgive me, and cast away my sins from me, and that he would receive me into everlasting life. So I take my leave of you all, making my peace with God.
Page 298 - Judges: to which it was answered by me, that true it was, that God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science, and great endowments of nature; but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods, or fortunes of his subjects, are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an act which requires long study and experience, before that a man can attain to the cognizance...
Page 298 - Then the king said, that he thought the law was founded upon reason, and that he and others had reason as well as the judges. To which it was answered by me, that true it was that God had endowed his majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature ; but his majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England. And causes which concern the life or inheritance, or goods or...