Historical and Literary Celebrities: Being Biographical Sketches Selected from Chambers's Papers for the People |
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... writing regretfully of the violent destruction of that place of sighs - ordered by royal lettres - de - cachet , or sealed orders from the king , grew and multiplied : the use of these letters ad libitum was one of the most valued ...
... writing regretfully of the violent destruction of that place of sighs - ordered by royal lettres - de - cachet , or sealed orders from the king , grew and multiplied : the use of these letters ad libitum was one of the most valued ...
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... writings might have produced some effect upon those who read them , it seems difficult to comprehend how they could ... writing traced in characters as huge as death and ruin , which the multitude read with flaming eyes , and sprang ...
... writings might have produced some effect upon those who read them , it seems difficult to comprehend how they could ... writing traced in characters as huge as death and ruin , which the multitude read with flaming eyes , and sprang ...
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... writing of Salamanca , said : ' It was a battle in which forty thousand men were beaten in forty minutes . ' The news of Marmont's signal defeat reached the French Emperor just as he had crossed the Boro- dino , and must have fallen as ...
... writing of Salamanca , said : ' It was a battle in which forty thousand men were beaten in forty minutes . ' The news of Marmont's signal defeat reached the French Emperor just as he had crossed the Boro- dino , and must have fallen as ...
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... writing to ' Dear Swire , ' on the 13th of March 1813 , says , after remarking upon the appointment of Dr Parsons to the see of Peter- borough , ' He is a stout fellow , and right in all controversial points , on the Catholic question ...
... writing to ' Dear Swire , ' on the 13th of March 1813 , says , after remarking upon the appointment of Dr Parsons to the see of Peter- borough , ' He is a stout fellow , and right in all controversial points , on the Catholic question ...
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... writing to his daughter , February 18 , 1827 , of Lord Liver- pool's sudden attack of apoplexy , thus alludes to it : ' Heaven knows who will succeed him . I should suppose Canning's health will not allow him to undertake the labours of ...
... writing to his daughter , February 18 , 1827 , of Lord Liver- pool's sudden attack of apoplexy , thus alludes to it : ' Heaven knows who will succeed him . I should suppose Canning's health will not allow him to undertake the labours of ...
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Page 22 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 31 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 14 - English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre; Muse, Muses, and inspirations ; Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him.
Page 9 - We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully and zealously endeavor to support and maintain.
Page 17 - My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped : When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!
Page 26 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho...
Page 23 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 21 - A gentle answer did the old Man make, In courteous speech which forth he slowly drew: And him with further words I thus bespake, 'What occupation do you there pursue ? This is a lonesome place for one like you.
Page 26 - How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use, As though to breathe were life.