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... and demerits of the dead . The leading incidents of Sydney Smith's career are soon told , and a brief summary of these will form a natural and necessary introduction to the remarks which we propose HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS . 5.
... and demerits of the dead . The leading incidents of Sydney Smith's career are soon told , and a brief summary of these will form a natural and necessary introduction to the remarks which we propose HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS . 5.
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... told her he disappeared about the time of the Assizes , and we asked no questions . ' This , we need hardly say , was a jocular fabrication ; for his descent was respectable on the side of each parent , and Lady Holland , unappalled by ...
... told her he disappeared about the time of the Assizes , and we asked no questions . ' This , we need hardly say , was a jocular fabrication ; for his descent was respectable on the side of each parent , and Lady Holland , unappalled by ...
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... told in connection with his marriage , which took place some time in 1799 , rather adds to the mystery , as proving that the spur of straitened means was amongst his other stimulants to extraordinary exertion . Lady Holland tells us ...
... told in connection with his marriage , which took place some time in 1799 , rather adds to the mystery , as proving that the spur of straitened means was amongst his other stimulants to extraordinary exertion . Lady Holland tells us ...
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... told , was like a spark on a heap of gunpowder . It was quickly followed by another and another ; each in- creasing the eagerness and curiosity of the public . Every effort was made on the part of the existing Government to find out the ...
... told , was like a spark on a heap of gunpowder . It was quickly followed by another and another ; each in- creasing the eagerness and curiosity of the public . Every effort was made on the part of the existing Government to find out the ...
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... told , which Lord Grey said on entering Downing Street , was , ' Now I shall be able to do something for Sydney Smith . ' Then why was not more done for him ? Lord Melbourne is reported to have said that there was nothing he more ...
... told , which Lord Grey said on entering Downing Street , was , ' Now I shall be able to do something for Sydney Smith . ' Then why was not more done for him ? Lord Melbourne is reported to have said that there was nothing he more ...
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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