Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay ...H. Colburn, 1842 |
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Seite 164 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 146 - He is tall, his figure is noble, his air commanding, his address graceful ; his voice is clear, penetrating, sonorous, and powerful ; his language is copious, various, and eloquent ; his manners are . attractive, his conversation is delightful.
Seite 375 - Sir" — cried I, not well understanding him. " How came you — how happened it — what ? — what?" " I — I only wrote, sir, for my own amusement, — only in some odd, idle hours." "But your publishing — your printing, — how was that?
Seite 281 - I prized every hour that went by, Beyond all that had pleased me before ; But now they are past, and I sigh, And I grieve that I prized them no more.
Seite 401 - I don't pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever ; and, if they are not to be had at the booksellers, they are not for me more than for another.
Seite 398 - Yes, indeed, I think so, sir, though mixed with such excellences, that — " " O !" cried he, laughing good-humouredly, " I know it is not to be said ! but it's true. Only it's Shakespeare, and nobody dare abuse him." Then he enumerated many of the characters and parts of plays that he objected to; and when he had run them over, finished with again laughing, and exclaiming, " But one should be stoned for saying so !"
Seite 369 - I do beg of you," said dear Mrs. Delany, " when the Queen or the King speak to you, not to answer with mere monosyllables. The Queen often complains to me of the difficulty with which she can get any conversation, as she not only always has to start the subjects, but, commonly, entirely to support them : and she says there is nothing she so much loves as conversation, and nothing she finds so hard to get. She is always best pleased to have the answers that are made her lead on to further discourse....
Seite 155 - ... an espy ; for I look away from him, and in a moment I look to him again, and I behold his tablets. Oh ! he was to the work of writing down all I say ! Indeed I was angry. But soon I discover he was no impostor and no espy ; and I only find I was myself the monster he had come to discern. Oh, — is a very good man ! I love him indeed ; so cheerful ! so gay ! so pleasant ! but at the first, oh ! I was indeed angry.
Seite 373 - A good deal of talk then followed about his own o health, and the extreme temperance by which he preserved it. The fault of his constitution, he said, was a tendency to excessive fat, which he kept, however, in order, by the most vigorous exercise, and the strictest attention to a simple diet. When Mrs. Delany was beginning to praise his forbearance, he stopped her. " No, no," he cried, " 'tis no virtue ; I only prefer eating plain and little, to growing diseased and infirm.
Seite 333 - My father saw him once while I was away, and carried Mr. Burke with him, who was desirous of paying his respects to him once more in person. He rallied a little while they were there ; and Mr. Eurke, when they left him, said to my father — " His work is almost done ; and well has he done it !" How cheering, in the midst of these sad scenes and accounts of poor Dr.