Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4American Bookmart, 1869 - English essays |
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Atheism Balsamo become Beppo Biography Book Boswell Boswell's Cagli Cagliostro called character clear Comte de Cagliostro Corn-Law Count Count Cagliostro cried dark Denis Denis Diderot Diderot divine Earth Egyptian Encyclopédie English existence eyes faculty fair Lily false father feeling figure foolish FRASER'S MAGAZINE French friends genuine gift Goethe Goethe's gold grand hand head heart highest History human infinite James Boswell King labour Langres lies light living look man's matter meaning Meanwhile mind Misc mortal Nature never noble Nocé nowise once Palermo perhaps Philosophe poetic poor Prince Quack racter reader Reality reverence round Samuel Johnson seemed Snake sort soul speak spirit stand stept strange Strasburg Tale of Tales thee thereof things thou thought tion true truth universal Voltaire wherein whither whole wholly Will-o'-wisps wise woman wonder words worth write young
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Page 71 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 71 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 64 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 84 - Thrale's family and Mr. Scott only were present, who, in a jocose way, clapped him on the back, and said, 'What's all this, my dear sir? Why you, and I, and Hercules, you know, were all troubled with melancholy?
Page 70 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to...
Page 93 - thoughts in the latter part of his life were fre'quently employed on his deceased friends; he ' often muttered these or such like sentences : ' " Poor man ! and then he died." ' How he patiently converts his poor home into a Lazaretto ; endures, for long years, the contradiction of the miserable and unreasonable ; with him unconnected, save that they had no other to yield them refuge ! Generous old man ! Worldly possession...
Page 185 - Loxley's waters cold, To kindle into beauty tree and flower, And wake to verdant life hill, vale, and plain. Cloud trades with river, and exchange is power : But should the clouds, the streams, the winds disdain Harmonious intercourse, nor dew nor rain Would forest-crown the mountains : airless day Would blast on Kinderscout the heathy glow; No purply green would meeken into grey O'er Don at eve ; no sound of river's flow Disturb the Sepulchre of all below.
Page 83 - He said, a man might live in a garret at eighteen-pence a week; few people would inquire where he lodged; and if they did, it was easy to say, 'Sir, I am to be found at such a place.
Page 20 - Sweep away utterly all frothiness and falsehood from your heart ; struggle unweariedly to acquire, what is possible for every god-created Man, a free, open, humble soul : speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking...
Page 87 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleetditch.