The Early Life of Samuel RogersSmith, Elder, & Company, 1887 - 461 pages |
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... diaries I am solely responsible . I wish further to express my cordial thanks to Mrs. Drummond of Fredley and of 18 Hyde Park Gardens , for the valuable and interesting letters of Richard Sharp . P. W. CLAYDEN . 13 TAVISTOCK SQUARE ...
... diaries I am solely responsible . I wish further to express my cordial thanks to Mrs. Drummond of Fredley and of 18 Hyde Park Gardens , for the valuable and interesting letters of Richard Sharp . P. W. CLAYDEN . 13 TAVISTOCK SQUARE ...
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... Diary in Revolutionary Paris - Visits to Lafayette , de Châtelet , de Liancourt , the Duc de Rochefoucauld , etc. - National Assembly , Jacobin Club - The Theatres - The King and Queen - The Populace - Journey homewards through Belgium ...
... Diary in Revolutionary Paris - Visits to Lafayette , de Châtelet , de Liancourt , the Duc de Rochefoucauld , etc. - National Assembly , Jacobin Club - The Theatres - The King and Queen - The Populace - Journey homewards through Belgium ...
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... Diary shows the influence of this ancestry and training . He was an introspective person , and religious feeling tinged his life . He puts on record , sometimes day by day , sometimes only year by year , not the day's events nor the ...
... Diary shows the influence of this ancestry and training . He was an introspective person , and religious feeling tinged his life . He puts on record , sometimes day by day , sometimes only year by year , not the day's events nor the ...
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... Diary is as follows : In London , on Thursday , 8th February , 1749 , betwixt twelve and one o'clock at noon , we were sur- prised greatly by the shock of an earthquake which was felt in the city and the country round about it . I ...
... Diary is as follows : In London , on Thursday , 8th February , 1749 , betwixt twelve and one o'clock at noon , we were sur- prised greatly by the shock of an earthquake which was felt in the city and the country round about it . I ...
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... Diary there is the record of the deaths of his two partners : Mr. Obadiah Wickes , the father , in 1748 , and Mr. John Wickes , the son , in 1750 . On the 1st of January , 1753 , he writes that he is again in some concern about a new co ...
... Diary there is the record of the deaths of his two partners : Mr. Obadiah Wickes , the father , in 1748 , and Mr. John Wickes , the son , in 1750 . On the 1st of January , 1753 , he writes that he is again in some concern about a new co ...
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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.
Page 302 - 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 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*.
Page 316 - An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts...
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...