Peter's Letters to His KinsfolkC. S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich street, 1820 - 575 páginas |
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... fine clear morning , to make his first survey of a splendid city , to which he is a stranger . I have often before experienced this charming spirit - stirring sensation . Even now , I remember , with a kind of solemn enthusiasm , the ...
... fine clear morning , to make his first survey of a splendid city , to which he is a stranger . I have often before experienced this charming spirit - stirring sensation . Even now , I remember , with a kind of solemn enthusiasm , the ...
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... fine old grey stone ; in front , an open esplanade , paved with massy pieces of granite , and a few kilted grenadiers loitering about the gate all had an appearance of neglected majesty , which I could not help feeling to be abundantly ...
... fine old grey stone ; in front , an open esplanade , paved with massy pieces of granite , and a few kilted grenadiers loitering about the gate all had an appearance of neglected majesty , which I could not help feeling to be abundantly ...
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... fine that nothing could take much from their power . - But , to come back to our own small men , J has a good deal of this unhappy manner , and so loses much of what his features , such as they are , might be made to convey . I have ...
... fine that nothing could take much from their power . - But , to come back to our own small men , J has a good deal of this unhappy manner , and so loses much of what his features , such as they are , might be made to convey . I have ...
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... fine acumen as David Hume , should not have foreseen what a sad misapplication of his theory must be the infallible result of the weak and limited nature of those , for whose reception it was so admirably fit- ted . Hume himself ...
... fine acumen as David Hume , should not have foreseen what a sad misapplication of his theory must be the infallible result of the weak and limited nature of those , for whose reception it was so admirably fit- ted . Hume himself ...
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... fine expression of intellectual dignity , candour , and serenity . The want of ele- vation , however , which I have already noticed , injures very much the effect even of the structure of the lower part of the head . It takes away all ...
... fine expression of intellectual dignity , candour , and serenity . The want of ele- vation , however , which I have already noticed , injures very much the effect even of the structure of the lower part of the head . It takes away all ...
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Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk John Gibson Lockhart,Association for Scottish Literary Studies Visualização de excertos - 1977 |
Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk John Gibson Lockhart,Association for Scottish Literary Studies Visualização de excertos - 1977 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration already appearance artist Assembly barrister beauty Blackwood's Magazine blue-stocking bookseller burgh character church confess Court Court of Session David David Hume DAVID WILLIAMS delightful display divine doubt Edin Edinburgh Review effect eloquence England entirely exertion expression eyes face Farnese Hercules feeling genius gentlemen give hand head hear heard honour ideas imagine intellect Judge kind ladies least less living look Lord manner means ment mind nature never observed occasion once P. M. LETTER painter party perhaps person physiognomy poet possessed Presbyterian present produced profession Professor quadrille regard rendered respect Robert Burns scarcely scene Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish Scottish Bar seems seen society speak species Speculative Society spirit splendid style sufficient suppose sure Theseus thing thought tion true truth walk Whigs whole Winforms wonder words young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 124 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 102 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 70 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 345 - On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his Fancy fetched, Even from the blazing Chariot of the Sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Página 398 - With solemn touches,* troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil...
Página 80 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Página 340 - ... so thick the aery crowd swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless...
Página 494 - As if their silent company were charged With peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful lord ; Then, in full many a region, once like this The assured domain of calm simplicity And pensive quiet, an unnatural light Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes...
Página 76 - I AM a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum.
Página 76 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...