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 Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 - 591 páginas |
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... imagination to con- quer your resisting will . Noble and dear lady , tho ' I be absent , let me in your favour be second unto none ; and when I am at home , if I have no right to dwell chief in so excellent a place , yet I will usurp ...
... imagination to con- quer your resisting will . Noble and dear lady , tho ' I be absent , let me in your favour be second unto none ; and when I am at home , if I have no right to dwell chief in so excellent a place , yet I will usurp ...
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... imagination to inextricable perplexities , or knit up my love in indissoluble knots , but make no other exposition but the literal sense , which is to entreat you to pay to Mr. Adrian Morice the sum of ten pounds as customarily , and to ...
... imagination to inextricable perplexities , or knit up my love in indissoluble knots , but make no other exposition but the literal sense , which is to entreat you to pay to Mr. Adrian Morice the sum of ten pounds as customarily , and to ...
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... imagination to conceive it : in my private devotions I presume to compare him to a great mountain of light , and my soul seems to discern some glorious form therein ; but suddenly as she would fix her eyes upon the object , her sight is ...
... imagination to conceive it : in my private devotions I presume to compare him to a great mountain of light , and my soul seems to discern some glorious form therein ; but suddenly as she would fix her eyes upon the object , her sight is ...
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... imagination , that I might live to be some way usefull or entertaining , if I were permitted to live in Town , or ( which is the highest punishment on Papists ) any where within ten miles round it . You remember very well , my Lord ...
... imagination , that I might live to be some way usefull or entertaining , if I were permitted to live in Town , or ( which is the highest punishment on Papists ) any where within ten miles round it . You remember very well , my Lord ...
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... imagination of busi- ness will be succeeded by some imagination more becoming a pro- fessor of that divine science , la bagatelle . Adieu , Jonathan , Alexander , John ! Mirth be with you . CXXII . This joint epistle was written at the ...
... imagination of busi- ness will be succeeded by some imagination more becoming a pro- fessor of that divine science , la bagatelle . Adieu , Jonathan , Alexander , John ! Mirth be with you . CXXII . This joint epistle was written at the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admiration affection affectionate Alexander Pope Anne Boleyn answer beauty believe character Charles comfort Countess of Bute dear death desire Duke Earl Edmund Burke endeavour England English esteem father favour feel following letter fortune France French friendship George Crabbe give grace hand happy hath heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole HORATIO NELSON humble servant Isaac D'Israeli James Boswell John John Evelyn kind King Lady live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron Lordship Madam Majesty manner matter mean mind nature never obliged opinion passion person pleased pleasure poems poet poor Pope pray present Queen reason received Samuel Johnson sent sure tell thee things thought tion told true truth unto virtue William William Cowper wish word write written young
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Página 236 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Página 236 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 307 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Página 199 - ... binds up the little wound with a hollow bit of shell; and in this manner opens four or five veins. The Grecians have commonly the superstition of opening one in the middle of the forehead...
Página 433 - I was born, the furniture which has been before my eyes all my life, a bookcase which has followed me about, like a faithful dog (only exceeding him in knowledge), wherever I have moved ; old chairs, old tables, streets, squares, where I have sunned myself, my old school— these are my mistresses — have I not enough without your mountains 7 I do not envy you.
Página 296 - 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 159 - 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 515 - ... 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.
Página 294 - I been a sharper, had I been possessed of less good nature and native generosity I might surely now have been in better circumstances. I am guilty, I own, of meannesses which poverty unavoidably brings with it, my reflections are filled with repentance for my imprudence but not with any remorse for being a villain, that may be a character you unjustly charge me with.
Página 519 - I think if I had a free and healthy and lasting organisation of heart, and lungs as strong as an ox's so as to be able to bear unhurt the shock of extreme thought and sensation without weariness, I could pass my life very nearly alone though it should last eighty years. But I feel my body too weak to support me to the height, I am obliged continually to check myself, and be nothing.