A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770: To which are Added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between the Years 1763 and 1787; Published from the Original Manuscripts in the Posession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, Volumen2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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Página 372 - Poor Mr. Richardson was seized on Sunday evening with a most severe paralytic stroke. How many good hearts will be afflicted by this in many more countries than England! To how many will he be an inexpressible loss ! But to consider him at present as lost to himself and perhaps with some sense of that loss is most grievous. It sits pleasantly upon my mind that the last morning we spent together was particularly friendly and quiet and comforting.
Página 176 - I should be extremely glad if it was in my Power to have our darling Daughter Educated in the best manner in England, with her ever Blessed Brothers th'o at another school, for she is a Lovely sensible Girl.
Página 372 - ... tremblings which unfitted that hand so peculiarly formed to guide the pen; and by perhaps the querulousness of temper, most certainly not natural to so sweet and so enlarged a Mind, which you and I have lately lamented, as making his family at times not so comfortable as his principles, his study, and his delight to diffuse happiness wherever he could, would otherwise have done.
Página 271 - Henrietta has been useful to us here, but there are many things in it that I dislike, and that tally with my opinion of the writer.
Página 391 - Was amazed that it is almost the only subject which is never treated of in conversation farther than as a mere uninteresting fact. Were any number of persons intending to embark for a distant* unknown country, of whom some might be called to-morrow, and all must be called soon, would they not, whenever they met as friends and...
Página 281 - Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing, no sear the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thoughts of death, l.'cn with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave.
Página 47 - I never took so much notice before, his frequent quotations of scripture phrases in much too ludicrous a way. The notes are worth any body's running over; some very wild, some very ingenious, some full of amusing anecdotes, some bitterly but not wittily satirical, but merely rough, unjust, and angry, and the greatest number, true commentator like, explaining what needs no explanation, and wire-drawing for meanings that the author never thought of.
Página 227 - I am told, have made amends for the solitude of his other oratorios. How long even this may be fashionable I know not, for next winter there will be (if the French come) two operas ; and the opera and oratorio taste are, I believe, totally incompatible. Well they may ! (Carter, Letters, II.
Página 215 - My vehemence, therefore, was fighting not with yon, but with I know not what complex idea of cold critics, and half-headed readers, that some of the notes*, and my apprehensions of the misuse that would certainly be made of them, had conjured up in my mind. Have I been very busy, you ask ? Why really if I have, it has not been to much purpose; for I can recollect but little that I have done. Have I then been very idle ? I heartily hope not, for that is against all my principles and resolutions.
Página 392 - ... possible to be done, and might to-morrow be irretrievably too late ? I think it would sit pleasingly on the mind when a friend was vanished out of this visible world to have such conversations to reflect upon. What astonishing scenes are now opened to the minds of many with whom, a few months ago, we used familiarly and triiliip.ly to converse; with whom we have wasted many an inestimable hour!