Prose and Verse: Humorous, Satirical, and SentimentalChatto & Windus, 1878 - 444 Seiten |
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Seite 436 - What, then, you think me in a very bad way?" — the usual answer to which being in the affirmative, he, on one occasion, replied, — "I am now, however, in a fairer way. I already believe in predestination, which I know you believe, and in the depravity of the human heart in general, and of my own in particular: — thus you see there are two points in which we agree. I shall get at the others by and by; but you cannot expect me to become a perfect Christian at once.
Seite 187 - Or, a treatise showing, that there is nothing in the Gospel contrary to reason, nor above it: and that no Christian Doctrine can be properly called a mystery, London, 1696.
Seite 434 - He was unable, however, he added, " to understand the Scriptures. Those who conscientiously believed them he could always respect, and was always disposed to trust in them more than in others ; but he had met with so many whose conduct differed from the principles which they professed, and...
Seite xi - Monkhouse's (a gentleman I had never seen before), on Wordsworth's invitation, who lives there whenever he comes to town. A singular party ; Coleridge, Rogers, Wordsworth and wife, Charles Lamb (the hero, at present, of the " London Magazine ") and his sister (the poor woman who went mad with him in the diligence on the way to Paris), and a Mr.
Seite ix - His forehead is bony and full of character, with " bumps" of wit, large and radiant, enough to transport a phrenologist. His eyes are as dark and fine, as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves ; his mouth generous and good-humoured, with dimples ; his nose sensual, prominent, and at the same time the reverse of aquiline.
Seite 259 - THE song that lightens our languid way When brows are glowing, And faint with rowing, Is like the spell of Hope's airy lay, To whose sound through life we stray.
Seite 180 - Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation, so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, ( ) is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or to be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Seite 120 - There was found, indeed, upon the side of her nail, upon one of her fingers, some little show of a, nail, which yet was so small, by the report of those that have seen her, as the workmaster seemed to leave it an occasion of greater grace to her hand, which, with the tip of one of her other fingers, might be and was usually by her hidden without any least blemish to it.
Seite xi - Lamb, a clever fellow certainly; but full of villainous and abortive puns, which he miscarries of every minute. Some excellent things, however, have come from him; and his friend Robinson mentioned to me not a bad one.
Seite 290 - One voice for one orator's surely enough. But he still talked away spite of coughs and of frowns, So distracting all ears with his ups and his downs, That a wag once, on hearing the orator say, " My voice is for war," ask'd him, " Which of them pray ?