A Little English GalleryHarper and Brothers, 1894 - 291 páginas |
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affectionate afterwards Anne Oldfield Beau beauty Bennet Langton born Boswell brother called character Charles Charles Lamb charming cheer Coleridge comedy critics daughter dear died Doctor Donne Donne's dying Edward Herbert English essay eyes father genius gentleman George Farquhar Goldsmith grace H. F. Lyte hand happy hath heart Henry Vaughan High Ercall honor John Danvers John Donne Johnson Lady Danvers laugh learned Leigh Hunt less letter lived London look Lord Magdalen married memory ment mind Miss Montgomery Castle moral mother Muse natural ness never once Oxford person Peter Anthony Motteux play poet portrait praise quhar seems sense song soul spirit sweet talk thee things Thou thought tion Topham Beauclerk touch turn Twin Rivals verses wife Wilkes William Hazlitt word write wrote young youth
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Página 179 - Taylor; and is returned to his old haunts at Mrs. Thrale's. Burke is a farmer, en attendant a better place; but visiting about too. Every soul is a visiting about and merry but myself.
Página 19 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Página 81 - That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over. Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Página 65 - King Charles, and who'll do him right now? King Charles, and who's ripe for fight now? Give a rouse: here's, in Hell's despite now, King Charles!
Página 97 - Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill My perspective still as they pass ; Or else remove me hence unto that hill, Where I shall need no glass.
Página 174 - Talking of melancholy, he said, " Some men, and very thinking men too, have not those vexing thoughts. Sir Joshua Reynolds is the same all the year round. Beauclerk, except when ill and in pain, is the same.
Página 125 - Dear Bob, — I have not anything to leave thee, to perpetuate my memory, but two helpless girls ; look upon them, sometimes ; and think of him that was, to the last moment of his life, thine, — GEORGE FARQUHAR.
Página 12 - For both he and she were then past the meridian of man's life. This amity, begun at this time and place, was not an amity that polluted their souls; but an amity made up of a chain of suitable inclinations and virtues; an amity like that of St.
Página 81 - Where is the Dryad's immortality ? — Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew, Or wearing the long gloomy Winter through In the smooth holly's green eternity.
Página 170 - I know not who will go to heaven if Langton does not. Sir, I could almost say, Sit anima mea cum Langtono.