Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 páginas |
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... interest seemed requisite to save the volume from overmuch severity of tone . Mr. Carlyle somewhere defines good letters as an un- counted handful of needles to be collected from an unmea- sured continent of hay . ' Given sufficient time ,
... interest seemed requisite to save the volume from overmuch severity of tone . Mr. Carlyle somewhere defines good letters as an un- counted handful of needles to be collected from an unmea- sured continent of hay . ' Given sufficient time ,
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... interest in this design , to bring many more fine specimens to light . Most of the letters , it will be observed , are introduced by a critical or explanatory head - note , worded in as condensed a form as possible . As many readers may ...
... interest in this design , to bring many more fine specimens to light . Most of the letters , it will be observed , are introduced by a critical or explanatory head - note , worded in as condensed a form as possible . As many readers may ...
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... interest in any one or two such letters taken by themselves . The cor- respondence of politicians is a branch of literature in itself ; and though political letters are very often most interesting in their bearing on questions of ...
... interest in any one or two such letters taken by themselves . The cor- respondence of politicians is a branch of literature in itself ; and though political letters are very often most interesting in their bearing on questions of ...
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... interest he has taken in the progress of this volume , as well as for the benefit I have derived from his scholarly criticism , and for several important contributions . W. BAPTISTE Scoones . RIDGWAY PADDOCK , WIMBLEDON , CONTENTS ...
... interest he has taken in the progress of this volume , as well as for the benefit I have derived from his scholarly criticism , and for several important contributions . W. BAPTISTE Scoones . RIDGWAY PADDOCK , WIMBLEDON , CONTENTS ...
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... interests , but the sentence was commuted to perpetual imprisonment . His execution , some fifteen years afterwards , was brought about by an almost unavoidable collision with Spanish troops during the ill - advised expedition to Guiana ...
... interests , but the sentence was commuted to perpetual imprisonment . His execution , some fifteen years afterwards , was brought about by an almost unavoidable collision with Spanish troops during the ill - advised expedition to Guiana ...
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acquainted Adieu admiration affection affectionate Alexander Pope Anne Boleyn answer beauty believe Bolingbroke Countess of Bute Dean Swift dear death desire Duke Earl endeavour England English esteem father favour following letter fortune friendship give grace hand happy hath heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole Horatio Nelson humble servant humour James Boswell John JOHN DRYDEN John Evelyn JONATHAN SWIFT Joseph Addison kind King Lady leave live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lordship Madam Majesty Majesty's manner matter mean mind nature Nell Gwynne never obliged opinion Parliament passion person pleased pleasure poet Pope pray present Queen reason received Richard Steele Samuel Johnson sent sure Swift tell thing thought tion told true truth unto virtue William wish word write written young
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Página 161 - Lordship the justice of believing me to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most obliged humble servant JON.
Página 509 - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Página 239 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with...
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Página 267 - Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round, found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train, to avoid the chill of the marble.
Página 298 - I have written a hundred letters to different friends in your country, and never received an answer from any of them. I do not know how to account for this, or why they are unwilling to keep up for me those regards which I must ever retain for them.
Página 202 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe I am very well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
Página 517 - ... delivered. 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Psal. cxxv. Qui confidant. HEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion : which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. 2 The hills stand about Jerusalem : even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.