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... told they had opposed it , he said , " Sir , among the anfractuosities ' of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture . " ' John Gilbert Cooper 2 related , that soon ...
... told they had opposed it , he said , " Sir , among the anfractuosities ' of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture . " ' John Gilbert Cooper 2 related , that soon ...
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... told us he had not ever read so much of it be- fore since it was first printed . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , i . 96. ' I was told , ' wrote Sir Walter Scott , ' that a gentleman called Pot , or some such name , was introduced to him as a ...
... told us he had not ever read so much of it be- fore since it was first printed . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , i . 96. ' I was told , ' wrote Sir Walter Scott , ' that a gentleman called Pot , or some such name , was introduced to him as a ...
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... told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " ' Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute concerning ...
... told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " ' Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute concerning ...
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... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto 3. " ' ' He would allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon prin- ciple , and always repelled every attempt to urge excuses for it , A friend one day suggested , that it ...
... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto 3. " ' ' He would allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon prin- ciple , and always repelled every attempt to urge excuses for it , A friend one day suggested , that it ...
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... told you all he knew about it , with the utmost philo- sophical ingenuity . ' Dugald Stewart ( Life of Adam Smith , p . 117 ) says that his consciousness of his tend- ency to absence rendered his manner somewhat embarrassed in the com ...
... told you all he knew about it , with the utmost philo- sophical ingenuity . ' Dugald Stewart ( Life of Adam Smith , p . 117 ) says that his consciousness of his tend- ency to absence rendered his manner somewhat embarrassed in the com ...
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Seite 340 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Seite 116 - In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. No summons mock'd by chill delay, No petty gain disdain'd by pride, The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supplied.
Seite 155 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save. But when shall Spring visit the mouldering urn? O, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?
Seite 253 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Seite 97 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, " that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and...
Seite 205 - Johnson, indeed, had thought more upon the subject of acting than might be generally supposed. Talking of it one day to Mr. Kemble, he said, 'Are you, Sir, one of those enthusiasts who believe yourself transformed into the very character you represent ?' Upon Mr. Kemble's answering that he had never felt so strong a persuasion himself ; 'To be sure not, Sir, (said Johnson ; ) the thing is impossible. And if Garrick really believed himself to be that monster, Richard the Third, he deserved to be hanged...
Seite 94 - ... seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
Seite 116 - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
Seite 94 - ... in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.
Seite 15 - An eminent foreigner, when he was shown the British Museum, was very troublesome with many absurd inquiries. ' Now there, Sir,' said he, ' is the difference between an Englishman and a Frenchman. A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows any thing of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.