The Great English Letter Writers, Volume 1William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908 - Letter-writing |
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... least through the writings of his own later countrymen , had been communi- cated by a long line of medieval scholars , and therefore must always claim a large place in the history of the development of English letter - writing . With ...
... least through the writings of his own later countrymen , had been communi- cated by a long line of medieval scholars , and therefore must always claim a large place in the history of the development of English letter - writing . With ...
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... least praise , your Grace shall herein per- ceive a new fashion of discourses by Epistles , new to our language ; usual to all others : and so as novelty is never without plea of use , more free , more familiar . Thus we do but talk ...
... least praise , your Grace shall herein per- ceive a new fashion of discourses by Epistles , new to our language ; usual to all others : and so as novelty is never without plea of use , more free , more familiar . Thus we do but talk ...
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... least to the circle of their intimate acquaintances . To these must be added the genuine practitioners of literature , now a great host , who are too thoroughly aware of the value of the epis- tolary art ever to discard it . We may ...
... least to the circle of their intimate acquaintances . To these must be added the genuine practitioners of literature , now a great host , who are too thoroughly aware of the value of the epis- tolary art ever to discard it . We may ...
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... least have the society of wretches , and such is to me true society . I tell you again and again , that I am neither able nor willing to pay you a farthing , but I will be punctual to any appointment you or the tailor shall make ; thus ...
... least have the society of wretches , and such is to me true society . I tell you again and again , that I am neither able nor willing to pay you a farthing , but I will be punctual to any appointment you or the tailor shall make ; thus ...
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... least spare invective till my book with Mr. Dodsley shall be published , and then , perhaps , you may see the bright side of a mind , when my profes- sions shall not appear the dictates of necessity , but of choice . pay her since her ...
... least spare invective till my book with Mr. Dodsley shall be published , and then , perhaps , you may see the bright side of a mind , when my profes- sions shall not appear the dictates of necessity , but of choice . pay her since her ...
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asked beautiful believe Benjamin Robert Haydon bless brother called Charles Dickens Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë comfort daughter DEAR death dream Edward FitzGerald English epistles eyes fancy father feel French genius give hand happy hath heart heaven Hobhouse honour hope Horace Walpole hour human imagination Jane Welsh Carlyle John Keats kind knew lady leave letter letter-writing literary live London look Lord Matthews Messrs mind Miss morning mother never night noble Oliver Goldsmith once pain passion perhaps pleasure poems poor pray remember Robert Louis Stevenson S. T. Coleridge seemed Shakespeare Shelley sleep soul speak spirit Stevenson suppose sure talk tell Thackeray thank things Thomas Carlyle thought thousand tion to-day told truth whole William Makepeace Thackeray wish woman words write written
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Page 198 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Page 208 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 198 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 13 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 188 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 197 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Page 271 - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
Page 188 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 178 - I look upon you as a man called by sorrow and anguish and a strange desolation of hopes into quietness, and a soul set apart and made peculiar to God...
Page 206 - This he said to us. Indeed it was admirable. A little after, he said, One thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, What that was ? He told me it was, That God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of His enemies.