Biographical and Historical SketchesD. Appleton, 1857 - 335 Seiten |
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... hearts of his persecutors . Like his own Christian in the cage , he found protectors even among the crowd of Vanity Fair . The Bishop of the diocese , Dr. Barlow , is said to have inter- ceded for him . At length the prisoner was ...
... hearts of his persecutors . Like his own Christian in the cage , he found protectors even among the crowd of Vanity Fair . The Bishop of the diocese , Dr. Barlow , is said to have inter- ceded for him . At length the prisoner was ...
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... heart was soft , even to weakness : he was so generous , that he quite forgot to be just ; he forgave injuries so readily , that he might be said to invite them , and was so liberal to beggars , that he had nothing left for his tailor ...
... heart was soft , even to weakness : he was so generous , that he quite forgot to be just ; he forgave injuries so readily , that he might be said to invite them , and was so liberal to beggars , that he had nothing left for his tailor ...
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... heart , though not of his head , a guinea , or five , or ten , according to the state of his purse , ready for any tale of distress , true or false . But it was not in dress or feasting , in promiscuous amours or promiscuous charities ...
... heart , though not of his head , a guinea , or five , or ten , according to the state of his purse , ready for any tale of distress , true or false . But it was not in dress or feasting , in promiscuous amours or promiscuous charities ...
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... heart . At his house , a house which is still pointed out to every traveller who visits Lichfield , Samuel was born on the 18th of September 1709 . In the child the physical , intellectual , and moral peculiar- ities which afterwards ...
... heart . At his house , a house which is still pointed out to every traveller who visits Lichfield , Samuel was born on the 18th of September 1709 . In the child the physical , intellectual , and moral peculiar- ities which afterwards ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. tion ; a kind and generous heart , with a gloomy and irri- table temper . He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medi- cine to remove . His ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. tion ; a kind and generous heart , with a gloomy and irri- table temper . He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medi- cine to remove . His ...
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Seite 325 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
Seite 323 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Seite 323 - The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid : but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory; and the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks...
Seite 230 - An Epistolary Discourse proving from Scripture and the First Fathers that the Soul is naturally Mortal, but Immortalized actually by the Pleasure of God to Punishment or to Reward, by its Union with the Divine Baptismal Spirit, wherein is proved that none have the Power of giving this Divine Immortalizing Spirit since the Apostles but only the Bishops.
Seite 73 - A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year ; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me, without leaving any impression.
Seite 83 - But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written in them ; and that an author whose works are likely to live is very unwise if he stoops to wrangle with detractors whose works are certain to die.
Seite 61 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Seite 76 - ... in a day, or to condemn the sheets to the service of the trunk-maker and the pastry-cook. Nor shall we think this strange when we consider what great and various talents and acquirements met in the little fraternity. Goldsmith was the representative of poetry and light literature, Reynolds of the arts, Burke of political eloquence and political philosophy. There, too, were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Garrick brought to the meetings his inexhaustible...
Seite 59 - He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him.
Seite 58 - Parliament, a lord of the treasury, an ambassador, a secretary of state. It would be easy, on the other hand, to name several writers of the nineteenth century of whom the least successful has received forty thousand pounds from the booksellers. But Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of the dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Literature had ceased to flourish under the patronage of the great, and had not begun to nourish under the patronage of the public.