The Great English Letter Writers, Volume 1William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908 - Letter-writing |
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... night before been arrested for debt and thrown into prison . In his compassion , Goldsmith pawned the fatal clothes and so released his landlord . Being himself in actual want , he borrowed a pittance from a neighbour , leaving with him ...
... night before been arrested for debt and thrown into prison . In his compassion , Goldsmith pawned the fatal clothes and so released his landlord . Being himself in actual want , he borrowed a pittance from a neighbour , leaving with him ...
Page 50
... nights . Indeed , he pretends that " where the bee sucks , there lurks he , " as much as to say that his suction is as innocent as that little innocent ( but damnably stinging when he is provok'd ) winged creature . But I take it , that ...
... nights . Indeed , he pretends that " where the bee sucks , there lurks he , " as much as to say that his suction is as innocent as that little innocent ( but damnably stinging when he is provok'd ) winged creature . But I take it , that ...
Page 51
... night , and to thank our kind host and hostess , and that's sense enough , I hope . CHARLES LAMB . N.B. - What is good for a desperate head - ache ? Why , patience , and a determination not to mind being miserable all day long . And ...
... night , and to thank our kind host and hostess , and that's sense enough , I hope . CHARLES LAMB . N.B. - What is good for a desperate head - ache ? Why , patience , and a determination not to mind being miserable all day long . And ...
Page 53
... night - caps to make , and , above all things , dolls to dress . I do not think she likes me at all , because I can't help being shy in such an entirely novel scene , sur- rounded as I have hitherto been by strange and constantly ...
... night - caps to make , and , above all things , dolls to dress . I do not think she likes me at all , because I can't help being shy in such an entirely novel scene , sur- rounded as I have hitherto been by strange and constantly ...
Page 56
... night , and left out of doors the night long . Of course they are not comfortable , and of course they crow and screech not only from daylight , but from midnight , and so near that it goes through one's head every time like a sword . The ...
... night , and left out of doors the night long . Of course they are not comfortable , and of course they crow and screech not only from daylight , but from midnight , and so near that it goes through one's head every time like a sword . The ...
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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.