Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With Selections from His Correspondence, Diaries, and Unpublished Literary Remains ...J. Murray, 1850 |
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... racter , or impetuosity of temper , were perfectly un- important to him , and were heard with the utmost indifference ; knowing that the hon . gentleman was in the habit of making attacks on all sides , recollect- ing how egregiously he ...
... racter , or impetuosity of temper , were perfectly un- important to him , and were heard with the utmost indifference ; knowing that the hon . gentleman was in the habit of making attacks on all sides , recollect- ing how egregiously he ...
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... which you have thrown over the story , by the beautiful delineation of cha- racter , the variety of manners , the knowledge of life , and the glow of virtuous sentiment , and 120 [ CHAP . IV LETTER FROM DR . COPLESTON .
... which you have thrown over the story , by the beautiful delineation of cha- racter , the variety of manners , the knowledge of life , and the glow of virtuous sentiment , and 120 [ CHAP . IV LETTER FROM DR . COPLESTON .
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... racter of a parish priest ; a character which , when the person to whom it belongs is active and sincere in fulfilling his duty , and liberal in his notions of it , from being imbued with the true spirit of that gospel to which he has ...
... racter of a parish priest ; a character which , when the person to whom it belongs is active and sincere in fulfilling his duty , and liberal in his notions of it , from being imbued with the true spirit of that gospel to which he has ...
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... racter of a book , than the desire of showing how severe they themselves can be ; and how brave , or even insolent , where ( from not being known ) they fear no reply ; and , for the same reason , are luckily exempt from attacks upon ...
... racter of a book , than the desire of showing how severe they themselves can be ; and how brave , or even insolent , where ( from not being known ) they fear no reply ; and , for the same reason , are luckily exempt from attacks upon ...
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... racter * , may perhaps review the book without having read it . Here I cannot help thinking of an anecdote re- corded by Mr. Lockhart , in his interesting life of Burns . The poet , in a dispute with a clergyman on the merits of Gray ...
... racter * , may perhaps review the book without having read it . Here I cannot help thinking of an anecdote re- corded by Mr. Lockhart , in his interesting life of Burns . The poet , in a dispute with a clergyman on the merits of Gray ...
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Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With ... Edmund Phipps Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1850 |
Memoirs of the political and literary life of Robert Plumer Ward: vith ... Edmund Phipps Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1850 |
Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With ... Edmund Phipps Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1850 |
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Էջ 427 - Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Էջ 289 - Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critic with a Poet's fire. An ardent Judge, who zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all his laws ; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Էջ 473 - Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
Էջ 434 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Էջ 458 - Which the great lord inhabits not ; and so This grove is wild with tangling underwood, And the trim walks are broken up, and grass, Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths.
Էջ 354 - I design to pass the greatest part of the time I stay in Ireland here in the cabin where I am now writing, neither will I leave the Kingdom till I am sent for ; and if they have no further service for me I will never see England again. At my first coming I thought I should have died with discontent, and was horribly melancholy while they were installing me ; but it begins to wear off, and change to dulness.
Էջ 418 - The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen, which, I thank God, has befallen me ; and though among the follies of my life, building and planting have not been the least, and have cost me more than I have the confidence to own ; yet they have been fully recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat, where, since my resolution taken of never entering again into any...
Էջ 428 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Էջ 447 - Then welcome business, welcome strife Welcome the cares, the thorns of life. The visage wan, the purblind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling Hall, — • For thee, fair Justice, welcome all...
Էջ 382 - ... between Pope's fortune and manner of life, and mine, may be carried. I have been, then, infinitely more uniform and less dissipated than when you knew me and cared for me. That love which I used to scatter with some profusion among the female kind, has been these many years devoted to one object...