New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 - English literature |
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... less expect to please , I must be more subject to inroads of suspicion . Common sense requires that I should keep at a distance from all attach- ments that can imply passion . But it must surely be the height of folly , to lay myself at ...
... less expect to please , I must be more subject to inroads of suspicion . Common sense requires that I should keep at a distance from all attach- ments that can imply passion . But it must surely be the height of folly , to lay myself at ...
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... less be determined by an analysis of its conduct , than by the ascendant which it gains over the heart , and by the strokes of nature which are interspersed through it . But I am afraid that it has not affected you to the degree I could ...
... less be determined by an analysis of its conduct , than by the ascendant which it gains over the heart , and by the strokes of nature which are interspersed through it . But I am afraid that it has not affected you to the degree I could ...
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... less . For instance , even with regard to health , a point in which few people can be mistaken , he is very fanciful . He imagines himself very infirm . He VOL . VI . D is one of the most robust men I have ever LETTERS . 17.
... less . For instance , even with regard to health , a point in which few people can be mistaken , he is very fanciful . He imagines himself very infirm . He VOL . VI . D is one of the most robust men I have ever LETTERS . 17.
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... less money both for his entertain- ment and credit than other people . A - propos to such people , we hear that our friend Rousseau made an elopement from the Prince of Conti , and fled into Dauphiny . He tired there , and offered to ...
... less money both for his entertain- ment and credit than other people . A - propos to such people , we hear that our friend Rousseau made an elopement from the Prince of Conti , and fled into Dauphiny . He tired there , and offered to ...
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... less than a History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ; with the first volume of which I may possibly oppress the public next winter . It * Lord H.'s eldest son . would require some pages to give a more par- ticular LETTERS ...
... less than a History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ; with the first volume of which I may possibly oppress the public next winter . It * Lord H.'s eldest son . would require some pages to give a more par- ticular LETTERS ...
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Page 306 - On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below; And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Page 200 - He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected too one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend; think how unpleasant a situation ! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Page 340 - This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Page 204 - It is plain I never knew for how many trades I was formed, when at this time of day I can begin electioneering, and succeed in my new vocation. Think of me, the subject of a mob, who was scarce ever before in a mob, addressing them in the town-hall, riding at the head of two thousand people through such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them amid bumpers, huzzas, songs, and tobacco, and finishing with country dancing at a ball and sixpenny whisk...
Page 264 - Until very lately, I had never heard any thing of your proceedings from others ; and when I did, it was much less than I had known from yourself, that you had been upon ill terms with the artists and virtuosi in Rome, without much mention of cause or consequence. • If you have improved these unfortunate quarrels to your advancement in your art, you have turned a very disagreeable circumstance to a very capital advantage. However you may have succeeded in this uncommon attempt, permit me to suggest...
Page 176 - ... through his fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this ? Thus, however, it is, and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it,...
Page 371 - ... politics I have nothing to do ; they differ from mine, which renders it difficult for me to speak of them. But he is perfectly sincere in them, — and sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile. I pray you therefore to correct or soften that passage. You may perhaps attribute this officiousness of mine to a false affectation of candour, as I happen to be a writer also. Attribute it to what motive you please, but believe the truth. I say that Walter Scott is as nearly a thorough good...
Page 205 - I have borne it all cheerfully ; nay, have sat hours in conversation, the thing upon the earth that I hate, have been to hear Misses play on the harpsichord, and to see an alderman's copies of Rubens and Carlo Marat. Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilized ; their very language is polished since I lived among them.
Page 279 - ... impossible not to admire ; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and must have a strong hand, like that of their former masters, to coerce them.
Page 278 - As to us here, our thoughts of every thing at home arc suspended by our astonishment at the .wonderful spectacle which is exhibited in a neighbouring and rival country. What spectators, and what actors ! England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for liberty, and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud.