Biographical memoirs (selected from various miscellaneous publications). |
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Արդյունքներ 49–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... late hours incident to a life of dissipation , her studies ( if they could be so called ) were not prosecuted with any degree of diligence or success . As if foreseeing how short would be the period of her youthful plea- sures , she ...
... late hours incident to a life of dissipation , her studies ( if they could be so called ) were not prosecuted with any degree of diligence or success . As if foreseeing how short would be the period of her youthful plea- sures , she ...
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... late Bryan Edwards , Esq . , author of the History of the West Indies , and some Poems of great elegance , who , by his warm and gra- tifying praises , first gave her an opinion of their merit , to which she had not before con- sidered ...
... late Bryan Edwards , Esq . , author of the History of the West Indies , and some Poems of great elegance , who , by his warm and gra- tifying praises , first gave her an opinion of their merit , to which she had not before con- sidered ...
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... late celebrated Mr Stee- vens , to whom Mrs Smith had ordered a copy to be presented . k « TO MISS « DEAR MADAM , I had purchased Manon l'Escaut several days before Mrs Smith's obliging present ar- rived ; I have therefore returned it ...
... late celebrated Mr Stee- vens , to whom Mrs Smith had ordered a copy to be presented . k « TO MISS « DEAR MADAM , I had purchased Manon l'Escaut several days before Mrs Smith's obliging present ar- rived ; I have therefore returned it ...
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... late Mr Cadell found his profits so considerable , that he had the liberality , volun- tarily , to augment the price he had agreed to give for it . The success of her volume of Sonnets was equally gratifying , and , exclusive of profit ...
... late Mr Cadell found his profits so considerable , that he had the liberality , volun- tarily , to augment the price he had agreed to give for it . The success of her volume of Sonnets was equally gratifying , and , exclusive of profit ...
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... late , she was cold , silent , and abstracted , dis- appointing those who had sought her society in the expectation of entertainment . Notwithstanding her constant literary occu- pations , she never adopted the affectations , the ...
... late , she was cold , silent , and abstracted , dis- appointing those who had sought her society in the expectation of entertainment . Notwithstanding her constant literary occu- pations , she never adopted the affectations , the ...
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Էջ 185 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Էջ 7 - All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Էջ 83 - I asked her, if she heard a sound when she clapped her hand upon her knee ? She said, she did not remember she did ; but said she appeared to be as much a substance as I did, who talked with her. And I may...
Էջ 6 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Էջ 186 - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
Էջ 82 - Veal owns that there was a purse of gold ; but it was not found in her cabinet, but in a comb-box. This looks improbable ; for . that Mrs. Watson owned that Mrs. Veal was so very careful of the key of her cabinet that she would trust nobody with it ; and if so, no doubt she would not trust her gold out of it. And Mrs. Veal's often drawing her hands over her eyes, and asking Mrs.
Էջ 184 - Or friends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Էջ 167 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Boy was sprung to manhood: in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams: he was girt With strange and dusky aspects; he was not Himself like what he had been; on the sea no And on the shore he was a wanderer...
Էջ 67 - ... flesh, by which many of them became so tame, that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered him from the rats. He likewise tamed some kids ; and, to divert himself, would, now and then, sing and dance with them, and his cats : so that, by the...
Էջ 167 - And on the shore he was a wanderer; There was a mass of many images Crowded like waves upon me, but he was A part of all; and in the last he lay Reposing...