The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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... desire to contribute to their amusement and instruction , found in these toys of science an unfailing source of interest and profit to his young friends . But he had other and more personal charms . He was a most delightful companion ...
... desire to contribute to their amusement and instruction , found in these toys of science an unfailing source of interest and profit to his young friends . But he had other and more personal charms . He was a most delightful companion ...
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... desires I will likewise mention that she and Mrs. Barker returned home to - day , safe and well , about three o'clock , and very little fatigued with their journey . They desire compliments to you , and many thanks for the kind call you ...
... desires I will likewise mention that she and Mrs. Barker returned home to - day , safe and well , about three o'clock , and very little fatigued with their journey . They desire compliments to you , and many thanks for the kind call you ...
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... desires her love to you . Mrs. B. [ Bowles ] took Patty to London on Sunday . She has got the measles . in a very favourable way . Mr. Field attends her.'1 Dr Price is returned from Lord Shelburne's ; he entirely cleared up his conduct ...
... desires her love to you . Mrs. B. [ Bowles ] took Patty to London on Sunday . She has got the measles . in a very favourable way . Mr. Field attends her.'1 Dr Price is returned from Lord Shelburne's ; he entirely cleared up his conduct ...
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... desires that you would give his compli- ments to Mr. Lascelles , and let him know that he shall be glad of the pleasure of seeing him at the Hill with you . ' On the 23rd of September she writes- ' I had the happiness to receive a very ...
... desires that you would give his compli- ments to Mr. Lascelles , and let him know that he shall be glad of the pleasure of seeing him at the Hill with you . ' On the 23rd of September she writes- ' I had the happiness to receive a very ...
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... desire to please , and in the amiable discharge of every relative and social duty , by none . ' She died on the 11th of July , 1776 , three weeks after the birth of her eleventh child , who survived her only a couple of months . Samuel ...
... desire to please , and in the amiable discharge of every relative and social duty , by none . ' She died on the 11th of July , 1776 , three weeks after the birth of her eleventh child , who survived her only a couple of months . Samuel ...
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Page 221 - Her tattered mantle, and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips, her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore, Imps, in the barn with mousing owlet bred, From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ; Whose dark eyes flashed through locks of blackest shade, When in the breeze the distant watch-dog bayed...
Page 223 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 408 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 304 - So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 237 - Ah ! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumined, and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye, and closed the ear, Still nerved for action in her native sphere, Oft will she rise — with searching glance pursue Some long-loved image vanished from her view; Dart thro...
Page 114 - I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Page 318 - An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts...
Page 25 - Locked in her arms, his arms across her flung, (That name most dear for ever on his tongue) As with soft accents round her neck he clings, And cheek to cheek, her lulling song she sings, How blest to feel the beatings of his heart, Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart ; Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care.
Page 61 - ... him at his birth what most he values, A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light of an ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action. Nature denied him much, but gave him more; And ever, ever grateful should he be, Though from his cheek, ere yet the down was there, Health fled ; for in his heaviest hours would come Gleams such as come...
Page 114 - THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear...