The Works of Donald G. Mitchell: English lands, leters and kings; Queen Anne and the GeorgesC. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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... street cries ; while Will Honeycomb , on the other hand , likens these cries to songs of nightingales : al- ways and ... streets to be hired at ten shillings a day ( of twelve hours ) for those who preferred this to the " Silent way ...
... street cries ; while Will Honeycomb , on the other hand , likens these cries to songs of nightingales : al- ways and ... streets to be hired at ten shillings a day ( of twelve hours ) for those who preferred this to the " Silent way ...
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... street dwelling near to Chiswick . In this emergency , ( if emergency it were , ) was it not the oddest thing in the world that his friends should have advised a translation of Homer ? Yet they did ; and so this dauntless young fellow ...
... street dwelling near to Chiswick . In this emergency , ( if emergency it were , ) was it not the oddest thing in the world that his friends should have advised a translation of Homer ? Yet they did ; and so this dauntless young fellow ...
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... Street , Covent Garden . Ame- lia followed , for which he received £ 1,000 ; and we hear of a new home out in the pleasant country , by Ealing , north of Brentford , and the Kew Gardens . Finally on a June day of 1754 we see him leaving ...
... Street , Covent Garden . Ame- lia followed , for which he received £ 1,000 ; and we hear of a new home out in the pleasant country , by Ealing , north of Brentford , and the Kew Gardens . Finally on a June day of 1754 we see him leaving ...
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... by request of the New York Historical Society , April 30 , 1839 , and repeated shortly after in the old " Ludlow " Church ( now " Dime Theatre " ) , in Church Street , New Haven . " I care not , Fortune , what you me 73 JAMES THOMSON.
... by request of the New York Historical Society , April 30 , 1839 , and repeated shortly after in the old " Ludlow " Church ( now " Dime Theatre " ) , in Church Street , New Haven . " I care not , Fortune , what you me 73 JAMES THOMSON.
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... street , opposite St. Mary's Church . We get a pleasant glimpse of the house on a page of Our Old Home , by Hawthorne ; and another glimpse of the colossal figure of Dr. Johnson , seated in his marble chair , upon that Lichfield market ...
... street , opposite St. Mary's Church . We get a pleasant glimpse of the house on a page of Our Old Home , by Hawthorne ; and another glimpse of the colossal figure of Dr. Johnson , seated in his marble chair , upon that Lichfield market ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ALEXANDER POPE Austen beautiful Boswell Burke Burney century Charles Charles James Fox Charles Lamb charming church club Coleridge counted Cowper Crabbe daughter death died early Edial Edinboro edition England English Evelina eyes famous father French garden Garrick gentleman George George II Gibbon give Goldsmith graces Grasmere Gray Hannah heart History honor Horace Walpole Hume humor Johnson kindly king knew Lady later letters literary lived London look Lord married ment mind Miss Mysteries of Udolpho never Ossian perhaps play pleasant poems poet poetic poor Pope pretty published Queen quiet red ruler Reynolds Robert Burns Samuel Johnson says Scotch sight sister song speech story Street sure talk taste tell tender thereafter things thought Thrale tion Twickenham Vathek verse Walpole wife William Cowper Wordsworth writes wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 94 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Página 308 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 17 - We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise, And Earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.
Página 76 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 39 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 308 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 247 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Página 80 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 126 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 16 - Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied.