Life and Manners: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eater

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Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 347 sider

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Side 38 - Praters, proconsuls, to their provinces Hasting, or on return in robes of state ; Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power ; Legions or cohorts, turms of horse and wings; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits on the Appian road, Or on the Emilian ; some from farthest south, Syene, and where the shadow both way falls,
Side 38 - extract, and beg the reader to weigh the following lines: — ' Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth or entering in ; Praters, proconsuls, to their provinces Hasting, or on return in robes of state ; Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power ; Legions
Side 38 - wreath'd ; From Gallia, Gades, and the British, west, Germans and Scythians and Sarmatians, north, Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.' With this superb picture, or abstraction of the Roman pomps and power, when ascending to their utmost altitude, confront the following representative sketch of a great English levee on some high solemnity,
Side 49 - felt the sublime expression of her enormous magnitude in one simple form of ordinary occurrence, viz. in the vast droves of cattle, suppose upon the great north roads, all with their heads directed to London, and expounding the size of the attracting body, by the force of its attractive power, as measured by the never-ending succession of the
Side 71 - factum valet. Were it otherwise, languages would be robbed of much of their wealth. And, universally, the class of purists, in matters of language, are liable to grievous suspicion, as almost constantly proceeding on half knowledge, and on insufficient principles. For example, if I have read one,
Side 103 - Now, the old Irish nobility — that part I mean which might be called the rural nobility — stood in the same relation to English manners and customs. Here might be found old rambling houses, in the style of antique English manorial chateaux, ill planned, as regarded convenience and economy, with long rambling galleries, and
Side 137 - delirium of vindictive malice ; private and ignoble hatred, of ancient origin, shrouding itself in the mask of patriotic wrath ; the tiger glare of just vengeance, fresh from intolerable wrongs and the neverto-be-forgotten ignominy of stripes and personal degradation ; panic, self-palsied by its own excess; flight, eager or stealthy, according to the temper
Side 62 - the great endowed libraries of the seven universities, the British Museum, &c. &c.' But primd facie, this was that selling- of justice which is expressly renounced in Magna Charta: and why were proprietors of copyright more than other proprietors, to make an 'acknowledgment' for their rights? But, supposing that just, why, especially, to the given
Side 49 - for ever into one centre the infinite means needed for her infinite purposes, and the endless tributes to the skill or to the luxury of her endless population, crowds the imagination with a pomp to which there is nothing corresponding upon this planet, either amongst the things that have been, or the things that are,
Side 35 - of the Queen's villa at Frogmore ; and, privileged by my young friend's introduction, I had opportunities of seeing and hearing the Queen and all the Princesses; which at that time was a novelty in my life, naturally a good deal prized. My friend's mother had been, before her marriage, Lady Louisa

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