Letters of the Late Lord Lyttleton: To which is Now Added, a Memoir Concerning the Author, Including an Account of Some Extraordinary Circumstances Attending His DeathWright, Goodenow, & Stockwell, 1807 - 296 oldal |
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110. oldal - They were orators indeed, and no man who has a soul can read their orations, after the revolution of so many ages, after the extinction of the governments and of the people for whom they were composed, without feeling, at this hour, the passions they were designed to move, and the spirit they were designed to raise.
35. oldal - s not a one of them, but in his house I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow, (Betimes I will,) unto the weird sisters : More shall they speak ; for now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst : for mine own good, All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Slept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
131. oldal - Man's feeble race what ills await ! . Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.
149. oldal - God had bestowed those talents which have a tendency to erect the spirit of a downward age; and Vaugelas left his body to the surgeons, to pay his debts as far as it would go. In our own country, Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress ; Sir Walter .Raleigh died on the scaffold ; Spenser, the charming Spenser, died forsaken and in want ; the death of Collins came through neglect, first causing mental derangement ; Milton sold his copyright of
46. oldal - ... so many more inducements than young nations to tempt men of leisure and cultivation to reside in them, that it is not surprising the travelled American should prefer Europe to his own quarter of the world ; but the jealousy of a provincial people is not apt to forgive this preference. For myself, I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true...
93. oldal - Alarmed at what they heard, several of them rung their bells, and, when the servants 75 •came, they declared that the horrid sounds proceeded from the stranger's chamber. Some of the gentlemen immediately arose, to inquire into this extraordinary disturbance; and, while they -were dressing themselves for that purpose, deeper groans of despair, and shriller shrieks of agony, again astonished and terrified them. After knocking some time at the stranger's chamber-door, he answered them as one awakened...
63. oldal - Without meaning any thing so detestable as a pun, I shall certainly lord it over a few of those .who have looked disdain at me. My coronet .shall glitter scorn at them, and insult their low souls to the extreme of mortification. I have received a letter from , that dirty parasite, full of condolence and congratulation, with a my lord in every line, and your lordship in every period.
13. oldal - Sqiuntum soon put me out of humour with praying, and into humour with myself. I really began this letter in very sober seriousness ; and, though I have strayed from my grave airs into something that wears a ludicrous appearance, I beg of you not to give up all hopes of my amendment. If there were but...
153. oldal - Hebrides ; and the inimitable Garrick, if he had possessed Shuter's character, would have acquired little more than Shuter's fame, and suffered Shuter's end. — Name me a man of genius in our days, who, if he has been destitute of independence, had a right to complain of any one but himself.
88. oldal - ... The huddling together every species of building into a park or garden is ridiculous. The environs of a magnificent house should partake, in some degree, of the necessary formality of the building they surround. This was Kent's opinion ; and, where his designs have escaped the destruction of modern refinement, there is an easy grandeur, which is at once striking and delightful. Fine woods are beautiful objects, and their beauty approaches nearer to magnificence, as the mass of foliage becomes...