LettersA. and C. Black, 1852 |
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Página 380 - Well, you should be happy yourself, for you may be sure you have done more good, and not only fostered more kindly feelings, but prompted more positive acts of beneficence by this little publication than can be traced to all the pulpits and confessionals in Christendom, since Christmas 1842.
Página 338 - I often run over and sit an hour t£te-dt£te, or take a long walk in the park with him — the only way really to know or be known by either man or woman. Taken in this way, I think him very amiable and agreeable. In mixed company, where he is now much sought after as a lion, he is rather reserved, &c.
Página 439 - I love you very much, and think very often of your dimples, and your pimples; and your funny little plays, and all your pretty ways; and I send you my blessing, and wish I were kissing, your sweet rosy lips, or your fat finger tips; and that you were here, so that I could hear, your stammering words, from a mouthful of curds; and a great purple tongue (as broad as it's long); and see your round eyes, open wide with surprise, and your wondering look, to find yourself at Craigcrook! Tomorrow is Maggie's...
Página 207 - Grey grown church towers, cathedrals, ruined abbeys, castles of all sizes and descriptions, in all stages of decay, from those that are inhabited to those in whose moats ancient trees are growing, and ivy mantling over their mouldered fragments. Within sight of this house, for instance, there are the remains of the palace of Hunsden, where Queen Elizabeth passed her childhood, and Theobalds, where King James had his...
Página 4 - Whence arises my affection for the moon ? I do not believe there is a being, of whatever denomination, upon whom she lifts the light of her countenance, who is so glad to see her as I am...
Página 406 - Oh, my dear, dear Dickens ! what a No. 5 you have now given us ! I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and again this morning ; and felt my heart purified by those tears, and blessed and loved you for making me shed them ; and I never can bless and love you enough. Since the divine Nelly was found dead on her humble couch, beneath the snow and the ivy, there has been nothing like the actual dying of that sweet Paul, in the summer sunshine of that lofty room.
Página 381 - You should be happy yourself, for you may be sure you have done more good by this little publication, fostered more kindly feelings, and prompted more positive acts of beneficence, than can be traced to all the pulpits and confessionals in Christendom since Christmas 1842.
Página 372 - You have been very tender to our sensitive friends beyond sea, and really said nothing which should give any serious offence to any moderately rational patriot among them.
Página 465 - ... that I may hear of the first honours attained by my nameboy. God bless him, and all of you ! We are all tolerably well here, I thank you; Mrs. Jeffrey, I am happy to say, has been really quite well for many months, and, in fact, by much the most robust of the two. My fairy grandchild, too, is bright and radiant through all the glooms of winter and age, and fills the house with sunshine and music. I am old and vulnerable, but still able for my work, and not a bit morose or querulous ; " and by...
Página 71 - ... you before it was sent away. This time, however, we really depend upon you ; and, after your engagements and blushes, I shall be obliged to suspect that you are not to be depended upon at all if you disappoint us. That you may have an opportunity of exercising your sagacity, I shall let you guess at the authors of the different articles before I disclose them ; and that you may give the London opinion without bias or prepossession, I shall not tell you till I hear it, what that is which preponderates...