The Great English Letter Writers, Volume 1William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908 - Letter-writing |
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... thank you ; you have comforted , you have relieved , you have honoured me ; what is to come is in a situation like mine particularly mysterious ; but whatever comes I will be grateful , and with a remembrance of the benefits I have ...
... thank you ; you have comforted , you have relieved , you have honoured me ; what is to come is in a situation like mine particularly mysterious ; but whatever comes I will be grateful , and with a remembrance of the benefits I have ...
Page 48
... thank God for all his dis- pensations , and to believe them the best possible ; but , in- deed , I think I should have been more thankful , if he had made me a journeyman shoemaker , instead of an author by trade . I have left my ...
... thank God for all his dis- pensations , and to believe them the best possible ; but , in- deed , I think I should have been more thankful , if he had made me a journeyman shoemaker , instead of an author by trade . I have left my ...
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... 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 that I have made ...
... 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 that I have made ...
Page 55
... thank my stars , as during its progress I have fulfilled the twofold character of nurse and governess , while the nurse has been transmuted into cook and housemaid . That nurse , by - the- bye , is the prettiest lass you ever saw , and ...
... thank my stars , as during its progress I have fulfilled the twofold character of nurse and governess , while the nurse has been transmuted into cook and housemaid . That nurse , by - the- bye , is the prettiest lass you ever saw , and ...
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... thanks for what ' as been sent . " It is a week ago : and one may now rest satisfied that the tying up caused the whole ... thank God , " you still have quietude to return to ! 1 1 Well do I remember that dog , behind the wall , on the ...
... thanks for what ' as been sent . " It is a week ago : and one may now rest satisfied that the tying up caused the whole ... thank God , " you still have quietude to return to ! 1 1 Well do I remember that dog , behind the wall , on the ...
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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.