Self-consciousness of Noted PersonsTicknor, 1887 - 187 páginas |
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... Erskine , Thomas 124 155 • 161 FIELDING , HENRY · 103 71 Francis , Sir Philip ( Junius ) 123 · 78 Croker , John Wilson 154 20 66 52 151 3 34 De Quincey , Thomas • • 158 171 Dickens , Charles 177 Franklin , Benjamin Froissart , Jean PAGE ...
... Erskine , Thomas 124 155 • 161 FIELDING , HENRY · 103 71 Francis , Sir Philip ( Junius ) 123 · 78 Croker , John Wilson 154 20 66 52 151 3 34 De Quincey , Thomas • • 158 171 Dickens , Charles 177 Franklin , Benjamin Froissart , Jean PAGE ...
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... Erskine's epitaph ; to which Erskine replied , that such an intention on the Doctor's part was almost a temptation to commit suicide . As the youngest son of the Earl of Buchan , Erskine started in life with very limited means , and ...
... Erskine's epitaph ; to which Erskine replied , that such an intention on the Doctor's part was almost a temptation to commit suicide . As the youngest son of the Earl of Buchan , Erskine started in life with very limited means , and ...
Página 125
... Erskine was a man of undoubted genius , and yet was a great spendthrift of the personal pronoun , so much so that Cobbett , who was printing one of his speeches , stopped in the middle , stating that the re- mainder would be published ...
... Erskine was a man of undoubted genius , and yet was a great spendthrift of the personal pronoun , so much so that Cobbett , who was printing one of his speeches , stopped in the middle , stating that the re- mainder would be published ...
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... Erskine at a re- ported meeting of the Friends of Freedom , which at the time was greatly relished ; and as it illustrates the egotism generally attributed to a really very able man , the extract which follows may be acceptable : " He ...
... Erskine at a re- ported meeting of the Friends of Freedom , which at the time was greatly relished ; and as it illustrates the egotism generally attributed to a really very able man , the extract which follows may be acceptable : " He ...
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... Erskine ; and while my heart burns within me , a secret voice assures me that if I make the attempt I shall be as great as they . " To his sister , only a few weeks later , he wrote : " Although I am friendless at present , I am not ...
... Erskine ; and while my heart burns within me , a secret voice assures me that if I make the attempt I shall be as great as they . " To his sister , only a few weeks later , he wrote : " Although I am friendless at present , I am not ...
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Página xvi - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
Página 93 - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Página 119 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Página 100 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Página 44 - There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching...
Página 157 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Página 163 - What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. The two first books, and indeed the two last, I feel sensible are not of such completion as to warrant their passing the press...
Página 2 - But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person: for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me...
Página 80 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 34 - ... Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ; And millions in those solitudes...