Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Volumen2J. Passmore Edwards, 1852 |
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... Passing over these writers , there- fore , and the namby pamby Della Crus- can school , so mercilessly handled by Gifford , we come at once to Cowper and Burns , who were the heralds of a new era in poetry . At the time of their ...
... Passing over these writers , there- fore , and the namby pamby Della Crus- can school , so mercilessly handled by Gifford , we come at once to Cowper and Burns , who were the heralds of a new era in poetry . At the time of their ...
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... passed out of the parlour warmed by the stove , our cheeks were struck by the air as if by cold iron . I slept in a room over the passage , which was not ceiled . The people of the house used to say rather unfeelingly , that they ...
... passed out of the parlour warmed by the stove , our cheeks were struck by the air as if by cold iron . I slept in a room over the passage , which was not ceiled . The people of the house used to say rather unfeelingly , that they ...
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... passed in obscurity and amidst the sternest trials of poverty . It is not until 1792 that we gain sight of him again , fighting in the fore- most ranks of the Lyons Volunteers against the army under the command of Dubois Crancé . The ...
... passed in obscurity and amidst the sternest trials of poverty . It is not until 1792 that we gain sight of him again , fighting in the fore- most ranks of the Lyons Volunteers against the army under the command of Dubois Crancé . The ...
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... passing without , and when the counter - revolu- tion was complete , all he knew was , that the revolutionary commission was no longer in power at Lyons , and that , therefore , he might without danger show himself in the city , and ...
... passing without , and when the counter - revolu- tion was complete , all he knew was , that the revolutionary commission was no longer in power at Lyons , and that , therefore , he might without danger show himself in the city , and ...
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... passed the night , and was conducted by that functionary the next morning to the Tuilleries . The gentleman - usher having announced the minister , the Emperor ordered him to be introduced , and with him entered Jacquard . From the time ...
... passed the night , and was conducted by that functionary the next morning to the Tuilleries . The gentleman - usher having announced the minister , the Emperor ordered him to be introduced , and with him entered Jacquard . From the time ...
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Página 98 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Página 97 - Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Página 186 - You will consider whether the removal of those disabilities can be effected consistently with the full and permanent security of our establishments in Church and State, with the maintenance of the reformed Religion established by law, and of the rights and privileges of the Bishops and of the Clergy of this Realm, and .of the Churches committed to their charge.
Página 304 - I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever, after trial enough, found in this world, or hope to find/ A character such as this is deserving of study, and his life ought to be written.
Página 87 - Dutchman is vastly ceremonious, and is perhaps exactly what a Frenchman might have been in the reign of Louis XIV. Such are the better bred. But the downright Hollander is one of the oddest figures in nature : upon a head of lank hair he wears a half-cocked narrow hat laced with black...
Página 259 - ... sitting in by-places, near Rochester Castle, with a head full of Partridge, Strap, Tom Pipes, and Sancho Panza; but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time, and that they were somehow or other connected with a suppurated abscess that some boy had come home with, in consequence of his Yorkshire guide, philosopher, and friend, having ripped it open with an inky penknife.
Página 34 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts.