The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Harper & Brothers, 1876 - 480 páginas |
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... less . dear , though less conspicuous , companions of his many labors , have ere now greeted him as their associate in the world of spirits ; and , above all , he has been welcomed by his Redeemer with ' Well done , good and faithful ...
... less . dear , though less conspicuous , companions of his many labors , have ere now greeted him as their associate in the world of spirits ; and , above all , he has been welcomed by his Redeemer with ' Well done , good and faithful ...
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... less weight , but not quite un- important . Surely it would be desirable that some person who knew Sir Walter , who had at least seen him and spoken with him , should be charged with this article . Many people are living who had a most ...
... less weight , but not quite un- important . Surely it would be desirable that some person who knew Sir Walter , who had at least seen him and spoken with him , should be charged with this article . Many people are living who had a most ...
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... less formidable in such a state than he would be if he kept his temper . I sent to Napier on Thursday a * Mr. Empson had married the daughter of Lord Jeffrey . long article on Temple . It is superficial ; but 1838-39 . ] 21 LORD MACAULAY .
... less formidable in such a state than he would be if he kept his temper . I sent to Napier on Thursday a * Mr. Empson had married the daughter of Lord Jeffrey . long article on Temple . It is superficial ; but 1838-39 . ] 21 LORD MACAULAY .
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... less leisure . However , it is my full intention to be in England in February , and on the day on which I reach London I will begin to work for you on Lord Clive . I know little English news . I steal a quarter of an hour in the day ...
... less leisure . However , it is my full intention to be in England in February , and on the day on which I reach London I will begin to work for you on Lord Clive . I know little English news . I steal a quarter of an hour in the day ...
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... less his friends . His heart was broken , but not estranged . His tongue , which had too seldom , perhaps , refrained from speaking out what was brave and true , could keep silence when silence was demanded by the claims of past ...
... less his friends . His heart was broken , but not estranged . His tongue , which had too seldom , perhaps , refrained from speaking out what was brave and true , could keep silence when silence was demanded by the claims of past ...
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Página 245 - Fair ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With my lost Arthur's loved remains. Spread thy full wings, and waft him o'er. So draw him home to those that mourn In vain; a favourable speed Ruffle thy mirror'd mast, and lead Thro' prosperous floods his holy urn. All night no ruder air perplex Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright As our pure love, thro' early light Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
Página 290 - By G — , they don't signify this pinch of snuff. To give a young gentleman right education, The army's the only good school in the nation : My schoolmaster call'd me a dunce and a fool, But at cuffs I was always the cock of the school ; I never could take to my book for the blood o' me, And the puppy confess'd he expected no good o
Página 326 - I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Página 273 - I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Página 393 - Italian country house from the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century...
Página 301 - Pleasure to look at, twas Music to hear. But now she is absent, I walk by its Side, And still, as it murmurs, do nothing but chide: 'Must you be so cheerful, while I go in pain? Peace there with your bubbling, and hear me complain.
Página 92 - THIS book seems to have been manufactured in pursuance of a contract, by which the representatives of Warren Hastings, on the one part, bound themselves to furnish papers, and Mr. Gleig, on the other part, bound himself to furnish praise. It is but just to say that the covenants on both sides have been most faithfully kept; and the result is before us in the form of three big bad volumes, full of undigested correspondence and undiscerning panegyric.
Página 209 - But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written in them...
Página 345 - Longman came, with a very pleasant announcement. He and his partners find that they are overflowing with money ; and think that they cannot invest it better than by advancing to me, on the usual terms of course, part of what will be due to me in December. We agreed that they shall pay twenty thousand pounds into Williams's bank next week.
Página 168 - Yes, darling, let them go;" so ran the strain : "Yes; let them go, gain, fashion, pleasure, power, And all the busy elves to whose domain Belongs the nether sphere, the fleeting hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine.