Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volumen2J. Major, 1836 |
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... look of compactness and comfort , wito out pretension , which , with the pastoral beauty of the landscape , and low situation , recall the ancient vocation of the family , whose grandeur was first founded , like that of the patriarchs ...
... look of compactness and comfort , wito out pretension , which , with the pastoral beauty of the landscape , and low situation , recall the ancient vocation of the family , whose grandeur was first founded , like that of the patriarchs ...
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... look abroad , I gazed only upon the leads of the building , bristled with a hoar - frost , upon which the cold clear moonbeam seemed to love to be sleeping . I had been rummaging among some old black - letter books , before retiring to ...
... look abroad , I gazed only upon the leads of the building , bristled with a hoar - frost , upon which the cold clear moonbeam seemed to love to be sleeping . I had been rummaging among some old black - letter books , before retiring to ...
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... look at the engravings from their pencils , it may be allowed me to challenge his congratulations on the issue . Poor Mr. Satchwell died when I was at Vienna * Seeing matters thus methodically and smoothly therefore , do I witness his ...
... look at the engravings from their pencils , it may be allowed me to challenge his congratulations on the issue . Poor Mr. Satchwell died when I was at Vienna * Seeing matters thus methodically and smoothly therefore , do I witness his ...
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... look back upon the pleasures and gra- tifications which , for twenty - two succeeding years , I have derived from my visits at ALTHORP , without more than a common sigh at the changes which have marked the lapse of that time : —and more ...
... look back upon the pleasures and gra- tifications which , for twenty - two succeeding years , I have derived from my visits at ALTHORP , without more than a common sigh at the changes which have marked the lapse of that time : —and more ...
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... look upon the whole period of the conception , concoction , and publica- tion of the Decameron as the sunniest period of my life . I scarcely know how its precise plan originated ; but the sale of the Valdarfer Boccaccio * seemed to ...
... look upon the whole period of the conception , concoction , and publica- tion of the Decameron as the sunniest period of my life . I scarcely know how its precise plan originated ; but the sale of the Valdarfer Boccaccio * seemed to ...
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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.
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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...