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... written by him as an introduction to the Recollections , makes clear his intention that they should not always remain unpublished . Of the persons abovenamed , Mr. Burke was the only one with whom Mr. Rogers was not intimately ...
... written by him as an introduction to the Recollections , makes clear his intention that they should not always remain unpublished . Of the persons abovenamed , Mr. Burke was the only one with whom Mr. Rogers was not intimately ...
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... written ; many passages , open to objection on some of these grounds , that had found their way into the original notes , were omitted from the cor- rected copy ; and the Writer , who had the • X amplest choice of subjects , has shown that.
... written ; many passages , open to objection on some of these grounds , that had found their way into the original notes , were omitted from the cor- rected copy ; and the Writer , who had the • X amplest choice of subjects , has shown that.
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... Written in a Sick Chamber , " and , having united with him in business his younger Brother Henry , he soon afterwards retired from all active management of the affairs of the Banking House , and never re- XV sumed it . He quitted his ...
... Written in a Sick Chamber , " and , having united with him in business his younger Brother Henry , he soon afterwards retired from all active management of the affairs of the Banking House , and never re- XV sumed it . He quitted his ...
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... written , in order to reconsider them again and again , be- fore thinking them complete . In his Com- mon Place Book is the following entry , giv- ing the dates of completion of his various . works , his own age at the time , and the ...
... written , in order to reconsider them again and again , be- fore thinking them complete . In his Com- mon Place Book is the following entry , giv- ing the dates of completion of his various . works , his own age at the time , and the ...
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Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. which allusion has just been made ; but , although written at earlier periods , they have the sanction of his later years ; as , until a short time before his death , it was often his habit to refer to the ...
Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. which allusion has just been made ; but , although written at earlier periods , they have the sanction of his later years ; as , until a short time before his death , it was often his habit to refer to the ...
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Page 11 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 10 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page xiii - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 48 - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The unconquerable Mind, and freedom's holy flame.
Page 183 - O eloquent, just and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet!
Page 15 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 38 - From his broad bosom life and verdure flings. And broods o'er Egypt with his wat'ry wings, If with advent'rous oar and ready sail, The dusky people drive before the gale; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide...
Page 19 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page xvi - Nature denied him much, But gave 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.
Page 57 - The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.