Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volumen141837 |
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Página 243
... looks , since my wishes I could not conceal . Swift down the mad dance , while blest health prompts to move , We'll count joys to come , and excharge vows of truth ; And haply when age cools the transports of love , Decry , like good ...
... looks , since my wishes I could not conceal . Swift down the mad dance , while blest health prompts to move , We'll count joys to come , and excharge vows of truth ; And haply when age cools the transports of love , Decry , like good ...
Página 263
... looks , when addressed , an expression of courtesy , that affords us the best idea of his education . Mr Kemble is well informed , and has the reputation of being a good grammarian . The Comedie Française has received him with all the ...
... looks , when addressed , an expression of courtesy , that affords us the best idea of his education . Mr Kemble is well informed , and has the reputation of being a good grammarian . The Comedie Française has received him with all the ...
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... look on any meaner form , while his matchless person stood in princely perfection before you . The very blue ribband , that suspended the picture of his father around his neck , had a courtly grace in its disposal . There he stood ! and ...
... look on any meaner form , while his matchless person stood in princely perfection before you . The very blue ribband , that suspended the picture of his father around his neck , had a courtly grace in its disposal . There he stood ! and ...
Página 269
... look so scorney , " ( a favourite expression of his , ) " else you will spoil my bust - and you're a very fine woman - I think it will make one of my very best busts . " When the Prince of Wales was sitting to him , he could scarcely ...
... look so scorney , " ( a favourite expression of his , ) " else you will spoil my bust - and you're a very fine woman - I think it will make one of my very best busts . " When the Prince of Wales was sitting to him , he could scarcely ...
Página 270
... look for , in the productions of his chisel , that soul and sentiment , of which something more than earthly inspira- tion is the source.1 Sir Henry Raeburn . BORN A. D. 1756 - DIED A. D. 1823 . HENRY RAEBURN was born at Stockbridge ...
... look for , in the productions of his chisel , that soul and sentiment , of which something more than earthly inspira- tion is the source.1 Sir Henry Raeburn . BORN A. D. 1756 - DIED A. D. 1823 . HENRY RAEBURN was born at Stockbridge ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admiration afterwards Akerblad appeared artist attention Bakerian Lecture beauty became Bentham BORN A. D. celebrated Champollion character Crabbe Davy death discovery Dr Young Edinburgh Edinburgh Review edition effect eminent enchorial Encyclopædia Britannica engaged England engraving exertions extensive metaphysical father favour favourite feelings fortune FULLARTON genius GEORGE GODFREY GLASGOW Greek happiness Hazlitt heart Henry Raeburn hieroglyphic honour human ILLUSTRATED inscription interest Jenner Jeremy Bentham John Hunter John Kemble Kemble labours lady language lectures letter literary lived Liverpool London Lord Byron manner master merit mind moral nature never object opinions original painted Paris period person philosopher poem poet poetry portrait principles produced profession published remarkable Rome Roscoe Royal society says Siddons Sir Joshua soon spirit success talents taste thought tion took volume William Hazlitt writing wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 253 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.
Página 432 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 433 - The difference, and the only difference, is this; that, in the one case we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world ; in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come.
Página 294 - In morality, I prefer Confucius to the Ten Commandments, and Socrates to St Paul, though the two latter agree in their opinion of marriage. In religion I favour the Catholic emancipation, but do not acknowledge the pope ; and I have refused to take the sacrament, because I do not think eating bread or drinking wine from the hand of an earthly vicar will make me an inheritor of heaven. I hold virtue in general, or the virtues severally, to be only in the disposition, each a feeling, not a principle....
Página 332 - That Mr. Humphry Davy be engaged in the service of the Royal Institution, in the capacity of Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry, Director of the Chemical Laboratory, and Assistant Editor of the Journals of the Institution ; and that he be allowed to occupy a room in the house, and be furnished with coals and candles, and that he be paid a salary of one hundred guineas per annum.
Página 414 - ... he fixed, impelled by some propitious influence, in some happy moment, upon EDMUND BURKE — one of the first of Englishmen, and, in the capacity and energy of his mind, one of the greatest of human beings.
Página 311 - I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. I considered it as a treasure ; but it was a treasure locked up ; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equations, and I knew nothing of the matter.
Página 311 - I made of them was found out, they were rendered still less so. I could not guess the motives for this at first ; but at length I discovered that my master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a ' Treatise on Algebra,' given to me by a young woman, who bad found it in a lodging-house.
Página 257 - There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their...
Página 296 - A very pretty letter from Annabella, which I answered. What an odd situation and friendship is ours ! without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side and aversion on the other. She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress — a girl of twenty — a peeress that is to be in her own right, an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way.