The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page 13
... walked home again . about seven o'clock , and Miss Raper stayed with us till last night - her father and self being to return to Wendover this morning . . . Yesterday morning Dr. and Mrs. Grant called on us and engaged us and Miss Sally ...
... walked home again . about seven o'clock , and Miss Raper stayed with us till last night - her father and self being to return to Wendover this morning . . . Yesterday morning Dr. and Mrs. Grant called on us and engaged us and Miss Sally ...
Page 49
... walked down to the pier this morning , and counted twenty - four West India merchantmen , which are just visible on the line of the horizon . I have found the sea air have the same E effect it used to have , and my appetite is.
... walked down to the pier this morning , and counted twenty - four West India merchantmen , which are just visible on the line of the horizon . I have found the sea air have the same E effect it used to have , and my appetite is.
Page 57
... walked to town in the morning with Gray's poems in his hand , and could repeat them all . He admired the letters as much as the poems . They had for him , he said , an inexpressible charm . He thought them to be as witty as Walpole's ...
... walked to town in the morning with Gray's poems in his hand , and could repeat them all . He admired the letters as much as the poems . They had for him , he said , an inexpressible charm . He thought them to be as witty as Walpole's ...
Page 87
... walked in Crow Park , a favourite spot of Gray's . The next morning proving very clear I was induced to mount Skiddaw in company with a young lady from Penrith ( very handsome and very musical ) , Mr. Ewer , a first cousin of Mr. Ewer ...
... walked in Crow Park , a favourite spot of Gray's . The next morning proving very clear I was induced to mount Skiddaw in company with a young lady from Penrith ( very handsome and very musical ) , Mr. Ewer , a first cousin of Mr. Ewer ...
Page 94
... Walked home with the Piozzis . Drank coffee with them and heard P. perform some of his music on the harpsichord . ' Repaired at nine to Mr. A. Smith's : present , all the company of Friday except Bogle and Macaulay . Mr. Playfair , a ...
... Walked home with the Piozzis . Drank coffee with them and heard P. perform some of his music on the harpsichord . ' Repaired at nine to Mr. A. Smith's : present , all the company of Friday except Bogle and Macaulay . Mr. Playfair , a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance Adam Smith admired afterwards bank Barbauld beautiful Boddington brother called Castle charming church Club Monarchique conversation criticism Cumberland delightful Della Cruscan diary dined dinner Duke Edinburgh elegant England English Epistle Exmouth expressed father feeling France gave Gilpin girl heard Hill hope Horne Tooke horse Johnson July Kippis Lady letter lines literary lived London Lord Mackenzie Mackintosh Madame de Condorcet mind Miss Moore morning never Newington Green night Paris Parr passed Piozzi pleasant Pleasures of Memory poem poet poetry political Price Priestley published Recollections Revolution Richard Sharp river Rode Rogers's round Samuel Rogers Samuel Sharpe Sarah says scene sister society soon Stoke Newington story Stourbridge talk taste tell Thomas Rogers thought told town Vale of Usk village walked Warton Whig William William Gilpin woods writing written wrote young
Popular passages
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...