Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... .. ..... He begins to understand my drift , and will , I think , learn to accommo- date himself to my humour , pas - a - pas . Notwithstanding all his devotion to the past , indeed , he is far from being an unconcerned or MR W 35 Mr 1.
... .. ..... He begins to understand my drift , and will , I think , learn to accommo- date himself to my humour , pas - a - pas . Notwithstanding all his devotion to the past , indeed , he is far from being an unconcerned or MR W 35 Mr 1.
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... understand that Jy is the one whom travellers are commonly most in a hurry to see not surely , that the world , in general , has any such deep and abiding feeling of admiration for him , or any such longing to satisfy their eyes with ...
... understand that Jy is the one whom travellers are commonly most in a hurry to see not surely , that the world , in general , has any such deep and abiding feeling of admiration for him , or any such longing to satisfy their eyes with ...
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... understanding of the man . I have said , that the mouth is the most expressive part of his face - and , in one sense , this is the truth , for it is certainly the seat of all its rapid and transitory expression . But what speaking ...
... understanding of the man . I have said , that the mouth is the most expressive part of his face - and , in one sense , this is the truth , for it is certainly the seat of all its rapid and transitory expression . But what speaking ...
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... understanding , and the shrewdness with which his sound and close judgment seems to scrutinize them after they are suggested - these alone would be sufficient to make his conversation one of the most remark- able things in the world ...
... understanding , and the shrewdness with which his sound and close judgment seems to scrutinize them after they are suggested - these alone would be sufficient to make his conversation one of the most remark- able things in the world ...
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... understanding , that by this species of conduct , the Great Cause itself , ( by which he means the cause of true religion and true patriotism , as united and inseparable ) , has sustained , is sustaining , and is likely to sus- tain ...
... understanding , that by this species of conduct , the Great Cause itself , ( by which he means the cause of true religion and true patriotism , as united and inseparable ) , has sustained , is sustaining , and is likely to sus- tain ...
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ABERYSTWITH admiration already ancient appearance beauty believe Blue-stocking Calton Hill character claret countenance Craniology dark David Hume DAVID WILLIAMS DEAR DAVID delight dinner display doubt Edinburgh Review effect entirely exertion expression eyes face feeling fore genius gentlemen give glorious head hear heard honour ideas imagination inclined intel intellectual kind ladies least less LETTER live look Lord manner matter means ment mind nature neral never observation pect perhaps person PETER MORRIS philosophy physiognomy poet portrait possess possible present President Professor quadrille racter regard render Rob Roy Robert Burns scarcely Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish seemed seen Society of Edinburgh sort Speculative Society spirit stranger style sufficient suppose suspect talk thing thought tion true truth ture University University of Edinburgh walks whole wonder words young your's
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Página 123 - 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 141 - 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 220 - 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 141 - He had perceived the presence and the power Of greatness ; and deep feelings had impressed Great objects on his mind, with portraiture And colour so distinct, that on his mind They lay like substances, and almost seemed To haunt the bodily sense.
Página 110 - Muse's lyre. Not beggar's brat on bulk begot ; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot ; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews...
Página 134 - 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...
Página 141 - He had small need of books ; for many a tale Traditionary, round the mountains hung, And many a legend, peopling the dark woods, Nourished Imagination in her growth, And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things.
Página 115 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Página 55 - It is a face which any man would pass without observation in a crowd, because it is small and swarthy, and entirely devoid of lofty or commanding outlines — and besides, his stature is so low, that he might walk close under your chin or mine without ever catching the eye even for a moment.
Página 127 - His declamation is often loose and irregular to an extent that is not quite worthy of a man of his fine education and masculine powers ; but all is redeemed, and more than redeemed, by his rich abundance of quick, generous, and expansive feeling. The flashing brightness, and now and then the still more expressive dimness of his eye — and the tremulous music of a voice that is equally at home in the highest and the lowest of...