The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Harper & Brothers, 1876 - 480 páginas |
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... pleasure which my arrival would give you . I have returned with a small independence , but still an independence . All my tastes and wishes lead me to prefer literature to politics . When I say this to my friends here , some of them ...
... pleasure which my arrival would give you . I have returned with a small independence , but still an independence . All my tastes and wishes lead me to prefer literature to politics . When I say this to my friends here , some of them ...
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... pleasure , though I hear every thing most hopeful and pleasing about the boy's talents and tem- per . * Indeed , it is not without a great effort that I force my- * The boy died in 1847 , having already shown as fair promise of remark ...
... pleasure , though I hear every thing most hopeful and pleasing about the boy's talents and tem- per . * Indeed , it is not without a great effort that I force my- * The boy died in 1847 , having already shown as fair promise of remark ...
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... pleasure from books which equals that of reading over for the hundredth time great productions which I almost know by heart ; and it is just the same with scenery . " " Lyons , Thursday , October 25th . — My birthday . Thirty - eight ...
... pleasure from books which equals that of reading over for the hundredth time great productions which I almost know by heart ; and it is just the same with scenery . " " Lyons , Thursday , October 25th . — My birthday . Thirty - eight ...
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... pleasure . I had drawn all my notions of classical interiors from the cold , white , and naked walls of such buildings as St. Paul's , or St. Geneviève's ; but the first church - door that I opened at Genoa let me into another world ...
... pleasure . I had drawn all my notions of classical interiors from the cold , white , and naked walls of such buildings as St. Paul's , or St. Geneviève's ; but the first church - door that I opened at Genoa let me into another world ...
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... pleasure which I have derived from him , and of his death in exile , and of the late justice of posterity . I believe that very few people have ever had their minds more thoroughly pene- trated with the spirit of any great work than ...
... pleasure which I have derived from him , and of his death in exile , and of the late justice of posterity . I believe that very few people have ever had their minds more thoroughly pene- trated with the spirit of any great work than ...
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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.