Cyclopædia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrations of the Characters, Habits and Conversation of Men of Letters and ScienceWilliam Keddie R. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 368 pages |
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... hear more easily . He agreed like a Christian ; and I was much interested in seeing his venerable white head close to a servant in livery , and on the same level . The servant in livery fell asleep , and so did Wordsworth . I jogged him ...
... hear more easily . He agreed like a Christian ; and I was much interested in seeing his venerable white head close to a servant in livery , and on the same level . The servant in livery fell asleep , and so did Wordsworth . I jogged him ...
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... hear reason ; the sum you ask me for is a very consider- able one ; whereas I only ask you for five - and - twenty pounds . " CAUSE AND EFFECT . Charles Lamb tells a story of a rencontre with a fellow - traveller , which illustrates his ...
... hear reason ; the sum you ask me for is a very consider- able one ; whereas I only ask you for five - and - twenty pounds . " CAUSE AND EFFECT . Charles Lamb tells a story of a rencontre with a fellow - traveller , which illustrates his ...
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... hear your stammer - ever - improving child , and make ing words , from a mouthful of curds ; not only gay and happy as an angel and a great purple tongue ( as broad without sin and sorrow , but meek as it's long ) ; and see your round ...
... hear your stammer - ever - improving child , and make ing words , from a mouthful of curds ; not only gay and happy as an angel and a great purple tongue ( as broad without sin and sorrow , but meek as it's long ) ; and see your round ...
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... and other things which the young man had made ; and Mr. Dance , who was one of the old members of the Royal Institution , took him to hear the four last lectures which Sir Hum- J. J. BECCHER - HIS ENTHUSIASM . phry Davy gave.
... and other things which the young man had made ; and Mr. Dance , who was one of the old members of the Royal Institution , took him to hear the four last lectures which Sir Hum- J. J. BECCHER - HIS ENTHUSIASM . phry Davy gave.
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... ( only upon your narrative ) to wish he were satisfied in it , for I am edified when I hear of so mundane a man , that yet he has a tear for pity . By which she never again quitted ; passing the last twenty 64 CRITICS AND CRITICISM .
... ( only upon your narrative ) to wish he were satisfied in it , for I am edified when I hear of so mundane a man , that yet he has a tear for pity . By which she never again quitted ; passing the last twenty 64 CRITICS AND CRITICISM .
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Page 25 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 110 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Page 252 - He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it x.
Page 153 - ... ordinary; if you expected to see an ordinary woman, you would think her pretty ! but her manners are simple, ardent, impressive. In every motion, her most innocent soul outbeams so brightly, that who saw would say, Guilt was a thing impossible in her. Her information various. Her eye watchful in minutest observation of nature; and her taste, a perfect electrometer.
Page 46 - When the messenger who carried the last sheet to Millar returned, Johnson asked him, " Well, what did he say?"—" Sir, (answered the messenger) he said, thank GOD I have done with him.
Page 90 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
Page 37 - The affectionate Laidlaw beseeching him to stop dictating, when his audible suffering filled every pause, "Nay, Willie," he answered, "only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves; but as to giving over work, that can only be when I am in woollen.
Page 147 - That's very strange ; but, if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings ; tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Page 147 - That's very strange ! but if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. — Let me see, what should I have had? a couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings — tarts, a shilling : but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket.
Page 14 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England !" ' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.