The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Harper & Brothers, 1876 - 480 páginas |
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... sure , who has read this memoir , will doubt that there are men whose abuse is an honor . " Mr. Wallace did not choose to rest quietly under a castiga- tion which even Macaulay subsequently admitted to have been in excess of his deserts ...
... sure , who has read this memoir , will doubt that there are men whose abuse is an honor . " Mr. Wallace did not choose to rest quietly under a castiga- tion which even Macaulay subsequently admitted to have been in excess of his deserts ...
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... sure that there are hundreds who will criticise them far better . Trust to my knowledge of myself . I never in my life was more certain of any thing than of what I tell you , and I am sure that Lord Jeffrey will tell you exactly the ...
... sure that there are hundreds who will criticise them far better . Trust to my knowledge of myself . I never in my life was more certain of any thing than of what I tell you , and I am sure that Lord Jeffrey will tell you exactly the ...
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... sure , if I live to be seventy , the events of George the Fourth's reign will be to me then what the American war and the Coalition are to me now . Whether I shall continue to reside in London seems to me very uncertain . I used to ...
... sure , if I live to be seventy , the events of George the Fourth's reign will be to me then what the American war and the Coalition are to me now . Whether I shall continue to reside in London seems to me very uncertain . I used to ...
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... sure that I marked the very turn in the road where the lines struck him : From where Cortona lifts to heaven Her diadem of towers ; and so on through reedy Thrasymene , ' and all the other lo- calities of the poem . " " Chalons - sur ...
... sure that I marked the very turn in the road where the lines struck him : From where Cortona lifts to heaven Her diadem of towers ; and so on through reedy Thrasymene , ' and all the other lo- calities of the poem . " " Chalons - sur ...
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... sure that they contained no treason or blasphemy , I hurried on shore , and by seven in the morning I was in the streets of Genoa . Never had I been more struck and enchanted . There was nothing mean or small to break the charm , as one ...
... sure that they contained no treason or blasphemy , I hurried on shore , and by seven in the morning I was in the streets of Genoa . Never had I been more struck and enchanted . There was nothing mean or small to break the charm , as one ...
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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.