Biographical sketch. Poetical extracts. Miscellaneous essays. From The bee. From The citizen of the worldHarper & Brothers, 1858 |
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... English . - Its Benefits . - The Fine Gentleman . -The Fine Lady To the Same . English Pride . - Liberty . - An instance of both . - News- papers . - Politeness • Fum Hoam , first President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin , to Lien ...
... English . - Its Benefits . - The Fine Gentleman . -The Fine Lady To the Same . English Pride . - Liberty . - An instance of both . - News- papers . - Politeness • Fum Hoam , first President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin , to Lien ...
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... English language , and sometimes , un- fortunately , he resorted to the gambling - tables which in those days abounded in Holland . This last resource terminated , as usual , in stripping him of every shilling . A generous friend , who ...
... English language , and sometimes , un- fortunately , he resorted to the gambling - tables which in those days abounded in Holland . This last resource terminated , as usual , in stripping him of every shilling . A generous friend , who ...
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... English taste and learn- ing against the attacks of Fontenelle . His ram- blings took him into Germany and Switzerland , from which last - mentioned country he sent to his brother in Ireland the first brief sketch of his po em of " The ...
... English taste and learn- ing against the attacks of Fontenelle . His ram- blings took him into Germany and Switzerland , from which last - mentioned country he sent to his brother in Ireland the first brief sketch of his po em of " The ...
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... English , as you cannot conveniently pay me a visit , if next summer I can contrive to be absent six weeks from London , I shall spend three of them among my friends in Ire- land . But first , believe me , my design is purely to visit ...
... English , as you cannot conveniently pay me a visit , if next summer I can contrive to be absent six weeks from London , I shall spend three of them among my friends in Ire- land . But first , believe me , my design is purely to visit ...
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... English characteristics , in endless variety , are hit off with the pencil of a master . ' In seeking materials for his varied views of life , he often mingled in strange scenes and got involved in whimsical situations . In the summer ...
... English characteristics , in endless variety , are hit off with the pencil of a master . ' In seeking materials for his varied views of life , he often mingled in strange scenes and got involved in whimsical situations . In the summer ...
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Page 216 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing.
Page 205 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran; E'en children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile...
Page 218 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will. "Then...
Page 213 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient : And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
Page 213 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 211 - Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Page 179 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.
Page 192 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 205 - While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 14 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast...