Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... ( Miss Vanhomrigh , whose acquaintance he had made in London ) , supposed to have taken place about this time ; his rupture with Vanessa the cause of her death , before which she entrusted to her executors his poem ' Cadenus and Vanessa ...
... ( Miss Vanhomrigh , whose acquaintance he had made in London ) , supposed to have taken place about this time ; his rupture with Vanessa the cause of her death , before which she entrusted to her executors his poem ' Cadenus and Vanessa ...
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... Miss Wilson and her brother still live ; opulent , fine , Church of England people ( scrupulously orthodox to the secularities not less than the spiritualities of that creed ) , and Miss Wilson very clever too ( i.e. full of strong just ...
... Miss Wilson and her brother still live ; opulent , fine , Church of England people ( scrupulously orthodox to the secularities not less than the spiritualities of that creed ) , and Miss Wilson very clever too ( i.e. full of strong just ...
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... missed in looking for it together ; 1 and he had a vision which he has mentioned in Copperfield of sitting eating something on a bench outside , one fine evening , and looking at some coal - heavers dancing before the house . ' I wonder ...
... missed in looking for it together ; 1 and he had a vision which he has mentioned in Copperfield of sitting eating something on a bench outside , one fine evening , and looking at some coal - heavers dancing before the house . ' I wonder ...
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... Miss Alexander as I correct this proof , gives a singu- lar instance of this power in the Italian peasant . She says : " I have just been drawing a magnificent Lombard shepherd , who sits to me in a waistcoat made from the skin of a ...
... Miss Alexander as I correct this proof , gives a singu- lar instance of this power in the Italian peasant . She says : " I have just been drawing a magnificent Lombard shepherd , who sits to me in a waistcoat made from the skin of a ...
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... missed it . Which , when he understood , he professed seri- ously to his friends , " That if he were troubled at the disappoint- ment , it was for theirs , and not for his own sake : for he was far from any desire of such an employment ...
... missed it . Which , when he understood , he professed seri- ously to his friends , " That if he were troubled at the disappoint- ment , it was for theirs , and not for his own sake : for he was far from any desire of such an employment ...
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Página 595 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 65 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed 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.
Página 72 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 437 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 55 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 225 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 355 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 307 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 204 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 476 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.