Autobiographic Sketches, Bind 11–12Houghton, Mifflin, 1876 - 593 sider |
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Side 104
... . Lord Monboddo's nieces , of whom one perished by falling from a precipice , * Which " saying " is sometimes ascribed , I know not how truly to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . ( and , as I have heard , through mere AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES ,
... . Lord Monboddo's nieces , of whom one perished by falling from a precipice , * Which " saying " is sometimes ascribed , I know not how truly to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . ( and , as I have heard , through mere AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES ,
Side 117
... lady be- longed , by birth , to a more elevated rank than that of her husband , and she was remarkably well bred as regarded her manners . But she had probably a weak understand- ing ; she was shrewish in her temper ; was a severe econo ...
... lady be- longed , by birth , to a more elevated rank than that of her husband , and she was remarkably well bred as regarded her manners . But she had probably a weak understand- ing ; she was shrewish in her temper ; was a severe econo ...
Side 124
... ladies joined our society , which my brother considered particularly vulgar , since natural propriety and decorum ... lady would seek to participate ; by that means compelling a young man to talk as loud as if he were addressing a mob ...
... ladies joined our society , which my brother considered particularly vulgar , since natural propriety and decorum ... lady would seek to participate ; by that means compelling a young man to talk as loud as if he were addressing a mob ...
Side 144
... lady now very nearly forgotten , * then * " Very nearly forgotten . " Not quite , however . It must be hard upon eighty or eighty - five years since she first commenced authorship- - a period which allows time for a great deal of forget ...
... lady now very nearly forgotten , * then * " Very nearly forgotten . " Not quite , however . It must be hard upon eighty or eighty - five years since she first commenced authorship- - a period which allows time for a great deal of forget ...
Side 158
... Lady Geraldine from Coleridge's " Christabel " that stood before him in this infidel lady . A magnificent witch she was , like the Lady Geraldine ; having the same superb beauty ; the same power of throwing spells over the ordinary ...
... Lady Geraldine from Coleridge's " Christabel " that stood before him in this infidel lady . A magnificent witch she was , like the Lady Geraldine ; having the same superb beauty ; the same power of throwing spells over the ordinary ...
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accident Aladdin amongst ancient army beauty believe belongs Birmingham bishop bluestocking brother called Castlebar character circumstances connected Demosthenes Dublin England English Enniscorthy expression fact feeling forever French gentleman Greek Greenhay happened heard heart Holyhead honor horses hour human interest Ireland Irish Killala knew known Lady Carbery Laxton less London Lord Altamont Lord Brougham Lord Cornwallis Lord Monboddo Lord Westport Manchester means Meantime ment miles mind mode moral morning mother mystery nature never night noble occasion once original Oxford palæstra party passion peculiar perhaps person post chaise present rank reader reason rebels regarded road royal Schreiber secret seemed sense separate servants sister society solitude sometimes spirit suddenly supposed thing thought tion town truth United Irishmen vast Westport House Wexford whilst whole word young Ziph
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Side 138 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Side 188 - Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Side 584 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen?
Side 188 - Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in ; Praetors, proconsuls to their provinces Hasting, or on return, in robes of state, Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power, Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings: Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road...
Side 143 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Side 251 - ... guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away.
Side 38 - Nothing met my eyes but one large window, wide open, through which the sun of midsummer at mid-day was showering down torrents of splendour. The weather was dry, the sky was cloudless, the blue depths seemed the express types of infinity ; and it was not possible for eye to behold, or for heart to conceive, any symbols more pathetic of life and the glory of life.
Side 147 - The pulses of the heart, the motions of the will, the phantoms of the brain, must repeat themselves in secret hieroglyphics uttered by the flying footsteps. Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys — have their own grammar and syntax ; and thus the least things in the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest.
Side 36 - Found scarcely any where in like degree! For love, that comes to all; the holy sense, Best gift of God, in thee was most intense; A chain of heart, a feeling of the mind, A tender sympathy, which did thee bind Not only to us Men, but to thy Kind : Yea, for thy Fellow-brutes in thee we saw The soul of Love, Love's intellectual law...
Side 66 - ... rear of that majestic substance which is the author of its existence. Books he detested, one and all, excepting only such as he happened to write himself. And these were not a few. On all subjects known to man, from the Thirty-nine Articles of our English Church, down to pyrotechnics, legerdemain, magic, both black and white, thaumaturgy, and necromancy, he favoured the world (which world was the nursery where I lived amongst my sisters) with his select opinions.