Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections : a New Series, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1873 |
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Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with ..., Volume 1 Abraham Hayward Volledige weergave - 1873 |
Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with ..., Volume 1 Abraham Hayward Volledige weergave - 1873 |
Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with ..., Volume 1 Abraham Hayward Volledige weergave - 1873 |
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Pagina 204 - Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Pagina 128 - Deans-looking body,' as we Scotch say — and, if not handsome, certainly not ill-looking. Her conversation was as quiet as herself. One would never have guessed she could write her name ; whereas her father talked, not as if he could write nothing else, but as if nothing else was worth writing.
Pagina 24 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Pagina 45 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra...
Pagina 42 - It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by the spirit which it breathed, and the feeling which it expressed. "Now," said Lord Nelson, "I can do no more.
Pagina 40 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Pagina 380 - LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS (Third Series). Comprising a Short Natural History of the Wildfowl that are Rare or Common to the British Islands, with Complete Directions in Shooting Wildfowl on the Coast and Inland. With 200 Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, 18s. Pole.— THE THEORY OF THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC GAME OF WHIST. By WILLIAM POLE, FRS Fcp.
Pagina 411 - A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle, (now with God,) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist.