The History of a ManGeorge Gilfillan A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1856 - 357 pagina's |
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... things at their true value ; and so , I trust , has the author of these pages . As the history , however , of an enthusiastic votary of literature , and as replete with sketches of and conversations with literary men of eminence , it ...
... things at their true value ; and so , I trust , has the author of these pages . As the history , however , of an enthusiastic votary of literature , and as replete with sketches of and conversations with literary men of eminence , it ...
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... thing not usual in country parish manses - lay a little distance from his garden , along the river - bank . Between that garden and house was his favourite walk ; and as I accompanied him there , I derived more pleasure , and more solid ...
... thing not usual in country parish manses - lay a little distance from his garden , along the river - bank . Between that garden and house was his favourite walk ; and as I accompanied him there , I derived more pleasure , and more solid ...
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... things from the sun to my own shadow , let my earthly life too expire , for hitherto I have fed on phantasy , and with any coarser pabulum cannot away ! I remember , as one of the principal eras in my intellectual life , my introduction ...
... things from the sun to my own shadow , let my earthly life too expire , for hitherto I have fed on phantasy , and with any coarser pabulum cannot away ! I remember , as one of the principal eras in my intellectual life , my introduction ...
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... things to all parties . He had his trials , but he had them at home ; they came from friends , not from cold - hearted strangers ; they arose rather from accident than from design or ill - will , and he treated them as trifling acts of ...
... things to all parties . He had his trials , but he had them at home ; they came from friends , not from cold - hearted strangers ; they arose rather from accident than from design or ill - will , and he treated them as trifling acts of ...
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... find a priest for her dying grandsire . In one thing I owed Henry Thompson a literary service . He taught me to abate my boyish reverence for Brougham , and showed me how void of poetic fire and genial 20 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
... find a priest for her dying grandsire . In one thing I owed Henry Thompson a literary service . He taught me to abate my boyish reverence for Brougham , and showed me how void of poetic fire and genial 20 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
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Pagina 268 - AWAY, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses ! In you let the minions of luxury rove ; Restore me the rocks, where the snow-flake reposes, Though still they are sacred to freedom and love : Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains, Round their white summits though elements war ; Though cataracts foam 'stead of smooth-flowing fountains, I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr.