Studies in Some Famous LettersBurleigh, 1899 - 308 oldal |
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4. oldal
... eye and feature , becomes after a time intolerable in a volume of letters . It is the same thing , I suppose , as one sees in portraits , where a too energetic or spirited attitude nearly always produces failure . Whatever makes a claim ...
... eye and feature , becomes after a time intolerable in a volume of letters . It is the same thing , I suppose , as one sees in portraits , where a too energetic or spirited attitude nearly always produces failure . Whatever makes a claim ...
7. oldal
... eye to see is found in company with the power of feeling life's joys and sorrows , and with the gift for telling the tale , that the books are written which never grow out of date . Few men have had these gifts more fully than Cowper ...
... eye to see is found in company with the power of feeling life's joys and sorrows , and with the gift for telling the tale , that the books are written which never grow out of date . Few men have had these gifts more fully than Cowper ...
10. oldal
... eye or explain the fascination , and yet every time . we read it we like it the better . Where does the charm lie ? Perhaps in the choice and delicate English Cowper always em- ploys ; perhaps in the simple prettiness of the picture ...
... eye or explain the fascination , and yet every time . we read it we like it the better . Where does the charm lie ? Perhaps in the choice and delicate English Cowper always em- ploys ; perhaps in the simple prettiness of the picture ...
31. oldal
... eyes are terribly bad , else I had much more to say to you . " my Not very long after this letter was written , Mrs. Unwin's health of body and mind entirely broke down , and her affection , which had so long been the greatest of ...
... eyes are terribly bad , else I had much more to say to you . " my Not very long after this letter was written , Mrs. Unwin's health of body and mind entirely broke down , and her affection , which had so long been the greatest of ...
45. oldal
... that have swum before my eyes for some time , a want of love for general society , indeed , an inability to it . On the good side , you may add a sensibility for what others feel , and indulgence for their faults and weaknesses , Gray . 45.
... that have swum before my eyes for some time , a want of love for general society , indeed , an inability to it . On the good side , you may add a sensibility for what others feel , and indulgence for their faults and weaknesses , Gray . 45.
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238. oldal - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
65. oldal - I break in upon you at a moment, when we least of all are permitted to disturb our friends, only to say, that you are daily and hourly present to my thoughts. If the worst be not yet past, you will neglect and pardon me : but if the last struggle be over ; if the poor object of your long anxieties be no longer sensible to your kindness, or to her own sufferings, allow me (at least in idea, for what could I do, were I present, more than this ?) to sit by you in silence, and pity from my heart not...
260. oldal - Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! " Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them rather than turn slave to the booksellers.
23. oldal - We were sitting yesterday after dinner, the two ladies and myself, very composedly, and without the least apprehension of any such intrusion in our snug parlour, one lady knitting, the other netting, and the gentleman winding worsted, when...
9. oldal - And I will tell you what you shall find at your first entrance. Imprimis, as soon as you have entered the vestibule, if you cast a look on either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making. It is the box in which have been lodged all my hares, and in which lodges Puss at present.
261. oldal - Keep to your Bank, and the Bank will keep you. Trust not to the Public, you may hang, starve, drown yourself, for anything that worthy Personage cares. I bless every star, that Providence, not seeing good to make me independent, has seen it next good to settle me upon the stable foundation of Leadenhall.
25. oldal - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
16. oldal - We breakfast commonly between eight and nine ; till eleven, we read either the Scripture, or the sermons of some faithful preacher of those holy mysteries ; at eleven, we attend divine service, which is performed here twice every day ; and from twelve to three we separate, and amuse ourselves as we please.
21. oldal - I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such like things, with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you...