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Page 89 - ... venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
Page 283 - Hushed every breath ; he rises — mark him now ! No grace in feature, no command in height, Yet his whole presence fills and awes the sight. Wherefore ? you ask. I can but guide your guess. Man has no majesty like earnestness.
Page 233 - Or the young heifer plunge, with pliant limb, In the salt wave, and fish-like strive to swim ? The same with plants — potatoes 'tatoes breed, — ") Uncostly cabbage springs from cabbage seed ; Lettuce to lettuce, leeks to leeks succeed ; Nor e'er did cooling cucumbers presume To flow'r like myrtle, or like violets bloom.
Page 95 - The turning of coats so common is grown, That no one would think to attack it ; But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy's turning his jacket.
Page 37 - To consign to distant exile and imprisonment a foreign and captive chief, who, after the abdication of his authority, relying on British generosity, had surrendered himself to us in preference to his other enemies, is unworthy of the magnanimity of a great country...
Page 200 - Pepper may philosophically be described as a dusty and highly pulverized seed of an oriental fruit ; an article rather of condiment than diet, which, dispersed lightly over the surface of food with no other rule than the caprice of the consumer, communicates pleasure, rather than affords nutrition ; and, by adding a tropical flavour to the gross and succulent viands of the North, approximates the different regions of the earth, explains the objects of commerce, and justifies the industry of man.
Page 160 - I have met Curran at Holland House — he beats every body ; — his imagination is beyond human, and his humour (it is difficult to define what is wit) perfect. Then he has fifty faces, and twice as many voices, when he mimics — I never met his equal.
Page 107 - He felt himself called upon to declare that his poor faculties were at the service of his country — of the free and enlightened part of it, at least He stood here as a man ; he stood in the eye — indeed, in the hand — of God, to whom (in the presence of the company and waiters) he solemnly appealed. He was of noble, perhaps royal, blood ; he had a house at Hampstead ; was convinced of the necessity of a thorough and radical reform...
Page 109 - Erskine were present, the latter was rallied on his not taking so prominent a position in the debates in parliament as his high talents and reputation entitled him to assume, when Sheridan said, " I'll tell you how it happens, Erskine; you are afraid of Pitt, and that is the flabby part of your character.
Page 284 - ... the worst, I appeal to all round." Con Lyne was one of the party, and, on his undertaking to recite something, Plunket said, " Come, come, Lyne, stand up while you do it; stand up, man, and nobody at least can say that you are Con-seated (conceited)." Mentioned Plunket's joke on some one saying, " Well, you see 's predictions have come true.