The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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... Italy ' and dated 1839 , when he was seventy - six years old , he says of himself- Nature denied him much But gave him at his birth what most he values , A passionate love for music , sculture , painting , For poetry , the language of ...
... Italy ' and dated 1839 , when he was seventy - six years old , he says of himself- Nature denied him much But gave him at his birth what most he values , A passionate love for music , sculture , painting , For poetry , the language of ...
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... Italian girl , who has run away from a match her father wished to force upon her , and is followed by the lover she favours in the guise of an organ - grinder . She sings the song Dear is my little Native Vale ; ' and one to the ...
... Italian girl , who has run away from a match her father wished to force upon her , and is followed by the lover she favours in the guise of an organ - grinder . She sings the song Dear is my little Native Vale ; ' and one to the ...
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... Italian style , with Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi , Miss Thrale , Mr. Bruce , and a very handsome woman and her brother . Very lively and pleasant . Mrs. Jordan directed herself to the box . July 21. — Left Edinburgh at six . Rode through Lord ...
... Italian style , with Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi , Miss Thrale , Mr. Bruce , and a very handsome woman and her brother . Very lively and pleasant . Mrs. Jordan directed herself to the box . July 21. — Left Edinburgh at six . Rode through Lord ...
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... Italian theatre , with a beautiful Ionic colonnade in front ; and the Théâtre de Monsieur , just finished , the front a circular colonnade . In the afternoon called at the Marquis de Lafayette's , and were introduced by M. de Châtelet ...
... Italian theatre , with a beautiful Ionic colonnade in front ; and the Théâtre de Monsieur , just finished , the front a circular colonnade . In the afternoon called at the Marquis de Lafayette's , and were introduced by M. de Châtelet ...
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... Italian comedy , La Pastorella , ' beautifully lighted in the centre with a transparency of Apollo and his rays . Came home - when Mr. Keay waited upon me and spent two hours with us . Said that Lafayette had nearly ruined his fortune ...
... Italian comedy , La Pastorella , ' beautifully lighted in the centre with a transparency of Apollo and his rays . Came home - when Mr. Keay waited upon me and spent two hours with us . Said that Lafayette had nearly ruined his fortune ...
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Page 219 - 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 221 - 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 83 - 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 406 - 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.
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Page 25 - How soon by his the glad discovery shows ! As to her lips she lifts the lovely boy, What answering looks of sympathy and joy ! He walks, he speaks. In many a broken word His wants, his wishes, and his griefs are heard. And ever, ever to her lap he flies, When rosy Sleep comes on with sweet surprise.
Page 235 - 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*.
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Page 25 - ... 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. Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there...