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... , AND PAGE WRITINGS 1 SAMUEL ROGERS 74 FREDERIC VON GENTZ 149 MARIA EDGEWORTH : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS 220 THE COUNTESS HAHN - HAHN 287 DE STENDHAL ( HENRI BEYLE ) 342 ALEXANDER DUMAS 393 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH : HIS LIFE , CHARACTER.
... , AND PAGE WRITINGS 1 SAMUEL ROGERS 74 FREDERIC VON GENTZ 149 MARIA EDGEWORTH : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS 220 THE COUNTESS HAHN - HAHN 287 DE STENDHAL ( HENRI BEYLE ) 342 ALEXANDER DUMAS 393 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH : HIS LIFE , CHARACTER.
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... help throwing off its disguise at his approach ; and the dogma which has been deemed ques- tionable touching ridicule in general , may be confi- dently predicated of his , namely , that it was 2 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
... help throwing off its disguise at his approach ; and the dogma which has been deemed ques- tionable touching ridicule in general , may be confi- dently predicated of his , namely , that it was 2 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
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Abraham Hayward. THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH : HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS . ( FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW , JULY , 1855. ) A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith . By his Daughter , LADY HOLLAND . With Selections from his Letters ...
Abraham Hayward. THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH : HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS . ( FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW , JULY , 1855. ) A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith . By his Daughter , LADY HOLLAND . With Selections from his Letters ...
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... help throwing off its disguise at his approach ; and the dogma which has been deemed ques- tionable touching ridicule in general , may be confi- dently predicated of his , namely , that it was 2 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
... help throwing off its disguise at his approach ; and the dogma which has been deemed ques- tionable touching ridicule in general , may be confi- dently predicated of his , namely , that it was 2 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
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... Sydney Smith's Life : he who opens this book under the expectation of reading in it curious adventures , important transactions , or public events , had better close the volume , for none of these things will he find therein . ' So ...
... Sydney Smith's Life : he who opens this book under the expectation of reading in it curious adventures , important transactions , or public events , had better close the volume , for none of these things will he find therein . ' So ...
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acquainted Adam Müller Adèle admiration agreeable Alexandre Dumas amongst amusing Andlau Antony asked beauty believe Beyle Beyle's breakfast Byron called character Combe Florey conversation dinner Duchess Dumas EDINBURGH REVIEW England English exclaimed eyes fancy father Faustine feeling fortune France French Friedrich Gentz genius Gentz give Hahn-Hahn hand happy heart honour humour Lady letter literary living London look Lord Lord Brougham Lord Byron Madame de Staël Mademoiselle Mars manner Maria marriage married Memoirs Mengen Metternich mind Miss Edgeworth moral never novels object Paris party passages passed passion person play pleasure poet popular Prince Prussia published remarkable replied Rogers Rogers's scene Sheridan society speak spirit story style Sydney Smith talk taste Theodore Hook things thought tion told tone Ulrich vanity Victor Hugo Vienna volumes whilst woman words writes wrote young
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322. oldal - little less poetical, and certainly more useful in her way: ' A creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
123. oldal - Envy must own I live among the great No pimp of pleasure, and no spy of State: With eyes that pry not, tongue that ne'er repeats, Fond to spread friendships, but to cover heats; To help who want, to forward who excel, This all who know me, know; who love me, tell.
118. oldal - had little real admiration for the greatest of poets: and he frequently read aloud from Ben Jonson's ' Discoveries:'— ' I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writings, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would he had blotted out a thousand !" ' Rogers always laid a strong emphasis on the concluding sentence.
94. oldal - finer forms, the miracles of art; Here chosen gems, imprest on sulphur, shine That slept for ages in a second mine; And here the faithful graver dares to trace A Michael's grandeur and a Raphael's grace! Thy gallery, Florence, gilds my humble walls, And my low roof the Vatican recalls.
79. oldal - distinction, power, Are baubles nothing worth, that only serve To rouse us up, as children in the schools Are roused up to exertion. The reward Is in the race we run, not in the prize And they, the few, that have it ere they earn it, VOL. i.
106. oldal - Why, what is the matter 1" " Oh, don't you know he has produced a couplet ? When our friend is delivered of a couplet, with infinite pain and labour, he takes to his bed, has straw laid down, the knocker tied up, expects his friends to call and make
31. oldal - Good life be now my task : my dcubts are done : What more could fright my faith than three in one ?' The Hind and Panther. Fox, in conversation with Rogers, termed Dryden's defence of
137. oldal - bailiffs may seize his last blanket to-day Whose pall shall be held up by nobles to-morrow.' But it cheers the heart to see one neither great nor highborn stepping forward to prevent that last blanket from being seized ; and, ' in the train of all this phalanx of
89. oldal - so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ? With conscious truth, retrace the mazy clue Of summer scents, that charmed her as she flew ? Hail, Memory, hail! thy universal reign Guards the least link of Being's glorious
354. oldal - of admiration,— that of all men he is the most open, the most honourable, the most amiable. With his 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