The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volumen19Longman., 1835 |
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... possession of the patrimonial inheritance . Of these were the Drurys of Ickworth , in Suffolk , from whom the estate of Ickworth passed , by marriage , about the end of the sixteenth century , to the ancestor of the Marquis of Bristol ...
... possession of the patrimonial inheritance . Of these were the Drurys of Ickworth , in Suffolk , from whom the estate of Ickworth passed , by marriage , about the end of the sixteenth century , to the ancestor of the Marquis of Bristol ...
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... possession of the Rev. H. Drury of Harrow , bound up with some other genealogies . It cor- responds entirely in matter with that printed by the historian of Hawsted , but is in parts rather difficult to be deciphered , from original ...
... possession of the Rev. H. Drury of Harrow , bound up with some other genealogies . It cor- responds entirely in matter with that printed by the historian of Hawsted , but is in parts rather difficult to be deciphered , from original ...
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... possession but the vain and empty honour of a long - drawn ancestry . The extrava- gances and imprudence of the last owner of Holt were the immediate causes of this decay . Dr. Gibson , afterwards the excellent and pastoral Bishop of ...
... possession but the vain and empty honour of a long - drawn ancestry . The extrava- gances and imprudence of the last owner of Holt were the immediate causes of this decay . Dr. Gibson , afterwards the excellent and pastoral Bishop of ...
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... possessed ; whose warn- ings I have remembered but too well , though too late , when I have erred ; and whose counsels I have but followed when I have done well or wisely . " We have been somewhat diffuse on this head , since the ...
... possessed ; whose warn- ings I have remembered but too well , though too late , when I have erred ; and whose counsels I have but followed when I have done well or wisely . " We have been somewhat diffuse on this head , since the ...
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... possessed , of about three hundred acres , of no very productive soil , about a mile from the place of his residence , more to the advantage of health from exercise , than to the enriching of his pocket by agriculture . Dr. Drury had ...
... possessed , of about three hundred acres , of no very productive soil , about a mile from the place of his residence , more to the advantage of health from exercise , than to the enriching of his pocket by agriculture . Dr. Drury had ...
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Página 345 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Página 344 - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination.
Página 326 - I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science : and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes.
Página 342 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war ; upon Church and State — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had " inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Página 267 - What little suppers, or sizings, as they were called, have I enjoyed; when .'Eschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons, &c., to discuss the pamphlets of the day. Ever and anon a pamphlet issued from the pen of Burke. There was no need of having the book before us. Coleridge had read it in the morning; and in the evening he would repeat whole pages verbatim.
Página 248 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety...
Página 328 - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no' end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
Página 345 - ... that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.1 Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day...
Página 352 - A Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents.
Página 335 - ... minister and his friends, and because I had never smoked except once or twice in my lifetime, and then it was herb tobacco mixed with Oronooko. On the assurance however that the tobacco was equally mild, and seeing too that it was of a yellow colour; (not forgetting the lamentable difficulty, I have always experienced, in saying, No!