Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volym 2W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... wonder what made your friend Rose say , " Your Dandy's at a discount out of London . " The Advocates , in the midst of their peripate- ticism , receive their fair proportion of all the dust that is flying , and thus , perhaps , some 22 ...
... wonder what made your friend Rose say , " Your Dandy's at a discount out of London . " The Advocates , in the midst of their peripate- ticism , receive their fair proportion of all the dust that is flying , and thus , perhaps , some 22 ...
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... wonder , then , that , in spite of his continual practice , and of his great natural eloquence , the impression of these delightful years should have become too deep ever to be concealed from view ; power and that even in the midst of ...
... wonder , then , that , in spite of his continual practice , and of his great natural eloquence , the impression of these delightful years should have become too deep ever to be concealed from view ; power and that even in the midst of ...
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... wonder of the miraculous vehicle , in which one side of it is expounded . The rapi- dity with which word follows word , and image follows image , and argument follows argument , keeps his intellect panting in vain to keep up with the ...
... wonder of the miraculous vehicle , in which one side of it is expounded . The rapi- dity with which word follows word , and image follows image , and argument follows argument , keeps his intellect panting in vain to keep up with the ...
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... wonder that he should pause a little before he decide with himself , that there is no safer and surer issue to which he might have been conducted in some less brilliant vehicle , and with some less extraordinary degree of speed . Nor ...
... wonder that he should pause a little before he decide with himself , that there is no safer and surer issue to which he might have been conducted in some less brilliant vehicle , and with some less extraordinary degree of speed . Nor ...
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... wonder that Mr Moncrieff should have some admirers among the constant attendants upon the Scottish courts , who think him by far the most agreeable speaker of all that address them . They may say of him , as my friend Charles Lloyd says ...
... wonder that Mr Moncrieff should have some admirers among the constant attendants upon the Scottish courts , who think him by far the most agreeable speaker of all that address them . They may say of him , as my friend Charles Lloyd says ...
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Sida 289 - Sunbeams, upon distant hills Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly. The Zephyrs fanning, as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep...
Sida 198 - Gabriel was a preacher or licentiate of the Kirk, employed as domestic tutor in a gentleman's family in Edinburgh, where he had for pupils two fine boys of eight or ten years of age. The tutor entertained, it seems, some partiality for the Abigail of the children's mother ; and it so happened that one of his pupils observed him kiss the girl one day in passing through an anteroom, where she was sitting. The little fellow carried this interesting piece of- intelligence to his brother, and both of...
Sida 289 - And filled the illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter, lifting a bright eye Up towards the crescent moon, with grateful heart Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed That timely light, to share his joyous sport : And hence, a beaming Goddess with her Nymphs, Across the lawn and through the darksome grove, Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave, Swept in the storm of chase ; as moon and stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven, When winds are...
Sida 143 - The reading public of Edinburgh do not criticise Mr Wordsworth; they think him below their criticism; they know nothing about what he has done, or what he is likely to do. They think him a mere old sequestered hermit, eaten up with vanity and affectation, who publishes every now and then some absurd poem about a Washing-Tub, or a Leech-Gatherer, or a Little Grey Cloak. They do not know even the names of some of the finest poems our age has produced.
Sida 199 - ... the spirit of this juvenile presbyterian — his whole soul became filled with the blackest demons of rage, and he resolved to sacrifice to his indignation the instruments of what he conceived to be so deadly a disgrace. It was Sunday, and after going to church as usual with his pupils, he led them out to walk in the country — for the ground on which the New Town of Edinburgh now stands, was then considered as the country by the people of Edinburgh. After passing calmly, to all appearance,...
Sida 346 - ... entitled to claim credit for the extent and importance of the class of ideas to which he has drawn the public attention; and if it be so, what small matters all his deficiencies or irregularities are, when put in the balance against such praise as this. At a time when the literature of Scotland — and of England too — was becoming every day more and more destitute of command over every thing but the mere speculative understanding of men — this great genius seems to have been raised up to...
Sida 199 - The idea of having been detected in such a trivial trespass was enough to poison for ever the spirit of this juvenile Presbyterian — his whole soul became filled with the blackest demons of rage, and he resolved to sacrifice to his indignation the instruments of what he conceived to be so deadly a disgrace. It was Sunday, and after going to...
Sida 289 - ... for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side; And, sometimes, intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard,— These were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities; or Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God!
Sida 38 - As one little trait, illustrative of Lord Melville's manner of conducting himself to the people of Scotland, I may mention, that to the latest period of his life, whenever he came to Edinburgh, he made a point of calling in person on all the old ladies with whom he had been acquainted in the days of his youth. He might be seen going about, and climbing...
Sida 199 - Sunday, and after going to the church as usual with his pupils, he led them out to walk in the country — for the ground on which the New Town of Edinburgh now stands, was then considered as the country by the people of Edinburgh. After passing calmly, to all appearance, through several of the green fields, which have now become streets and squares, he came to a place more lonely than the rest, and there drawing a large clasp-knife from his pocket, he at once stabbed the elder of his pupils to the...