Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volumen2J. Major, 1836 |
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... Tour " of all the rooms below ; " and most marvellous , or at least incomprehensible , to me , it is , that of a mansion , in which the FINEST PRIVATE LIBRARY IN EUROPE is contained — and which library may be said to be nearer three ...
... Tour " of all the rooms below ; " and most marvellous , or at least incomprehensible , to me , it is , that of a mansion , in which the FINEST PRIVATE LIBRARY IN EUROPE is contained — and which library may be said to be nearer three ...
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... Tour . Mr. Wright , the engraver , was so struck with it , that he de- sired ( and readily obtained ) permission to copy it in water - colours ; and for this copy , exquisitely and perfectly finished in every particular , he asked the ...
... Tour . Mr. Wright , the engraver , was so struck with it , that he de- sired ( and readily obtained ) permission to copy it in water - colours ; and for this copy , exquisitely and perfectly finished in every particular , he asked the ...
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... Tour upon the Continent . The be- ginning , therefore , of the year 1818 , was full of excitement and occupation . Within the first three months of it , I had satisfactorily ascertained that my projected work of the " Ædes " would ...
... Tour upon the Continent . The be- ginning , therefore , of the year 1818 , was full of excitement and occupation . Within the first three months of it , I had satisfactorily ascertained that my projected work of the " Ædes " would ...
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... Tour . It was a matter of equal anxiety and distress to me to be obliged ( from the pressure of time ) to take it out of Mr. Warren's hands ; but his family afflictions at once distracted his attention and engrossed his time . His son ...
... Tour . It was a matter of equal anxiety and distress to me to be obliged ( from the pressure of time ) to take it out of Mr. Warren's hands ; but his family afflictions at once distracted his attention and engrossed his time . His son ...
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... Tour was almost ready to be started . I had originally intended to have incorporated , in the first volume of the " Edes , " an account of such books in the Althorp Library as had been in the col- lection of DE THOU * , and of such as ...
... Tour was almost ready to be started . I had originally intended to have incorporated , in the first volume of the " Edes , " an account of such books in the Althorp Library as had been in the col- lection of DE THOU * , and of such as ...
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Página 787 - So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : ' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read...
Página 559 - All things that love the sun are out of doors : The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops ; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist ; that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Página 892 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Página 953 - Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY.
Página 782 - Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.
Página 881 - ... that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily; and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death.
Página 808 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Página 605 - Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Página 788 - terribil via ' of Michael Angelo, and we start amid a world too horrified to dwell in. Not the least extraordinary fact of these designs is, their colouring, done by the artist's own hand, worked to his fancy ; and the verses which are often remarkable for their sweetness and their depth of feeling. I feel the imperfection of my general description. Such singular productions require a commentary. Believe me, with regard Your sincere well wisher, ISAAC DISRAELI.
Página 876 - Lord, on the simple and ignorant, who have been led astray, and recall them to a sense of their duty : And to persons of all ranks and conditions in this country, vouchsafe such a measure of Thy grace, that, our hearts being...