Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volumen141837 |
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Página 244
... mind glowing with the fine descrip- tions of rural scenery which he found in Thomson's ' Seasons , ' he again retraced the very fields where first he began to think . Here , free from the smoke , the noise , and the contention of the ...
... mind glowing with the fine descrip- tions of rural scenery which he found in Thomson's ' Seasons , ' he again retraced the very fields where first he began to think . Here , free from the smoke , the noise , and the contention of the ...
Página 245
... mind . Not long afterwards , owing to his engaging in the book trade , he became a bankrupt ; and about the same time , suffering much from the dropsy , he left London and took up his abode at Shefford in Bucks , for the benefit of his ...
... mind . Not long afterwards , owing to his engaging in the book trade , he became a bankrupt ; and about the same time , suffering much from the dropsy , he left London and took up his abode at Shefford in Bucks , for the benefit of his ...
Página 247
... mind became first alive to the possibility of averting the evils arising both from the natural and the inoculated small - pox , and he exerted his powers to the utmost , in the face of neglect and ridicule , to convince the world of the ...
... mind became first alive to the possibility of averting the evils arising both from the natural and the inoculated small - pox , and he exerted his powers to the utmost , in the face of neglect and ridicule , to convince the world of the ...
Página 249
... mind like that of Mrs Radcliffe's gave forth for a time ungrudgingly of its fulness . It was , in fact , in the course of a very few years of her life that all the works for which the world is indebted to her pen were written ; ' The ...
... mind like that of Mrs Radcliffe's gave forth for a time ungrudgingly of its fulness . It was , in fact , in the course of a very few years of her life that all the works for which the world is indebted to her pen were written ; ' The ...
Página 251
... mind with any feeling of awe , than the enchantments and talismans , the genii and peris , of the Arabian Nights . A nearer approach to the proper tone of feeling , was made in the Old English Baron ; ' but while it must be admitted ...
... mind with any feeling of awe , than the enchantments and talismans , the genii and peris , of the Arabian Nights . A nearer approach to the proper tone of feeling , was made in the Old English Baron ; ' but while it must be admitted ...
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.