The Young Man's Book of Classical Letters: Consisting of Epistolary Selections; Designed to Improve Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Art of Letter-writing ... with Introductory Rules and Observations on Epistolary CompositionGrigg & Elliot, 1841 - 320 pages |
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Page 17
... thing , either in a letter or in common conversation , that you do not think ; but always let your mind and your words go together , even on the most slight and trivial occasions . Shelter not the least degree of insincerity under the ...
... thing , either in a letter or in common conversation , that you do not think ; but always let your mind and your words go together , even on the most slight and trivial occasions . Shelter not the least degree of insincerity under the ...
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... thing he said or wrote , though on the most trivial occasion . " The effusion of a moment " becomes the just cha- racteristic and the highest encomium of all fami- liar writing , when a habit of accuracy has previ- ously been acquired ...
... thing he said or wrote , though on the most trivial occasion . " The effusion of a moment " becomes the just cha- racteristic and the highest encomium of all fami- liar writing , when a habit of accuracy has previ- ously been acquired ...
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... thing : no , let me not do him that injustice ; he might have sat for the picture of insen- sibility . I endured his taciturnity , thinking that the longer he was in collecting , adjusting , and arranging his ideas , the more would he ...
... thing : no , let me not do him that injustice ; he might have sat for the picture of insen- sibility . I endured his taciturnity , thinking that the longer he was in collecting , adjusting , and arranging his ideas , the more would he ...
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... thing , calculated to confound all the cavils of the infidel , and to confirm all the hopes of the believer . Have you heard from the sweet little Cornwallian since you left her ? My most affectionate regards to my dear Master Lovell ...
... thing , calculated to confound all the cavils of the infidel , and to confirm all the hopes of the believer . Have you heard from the sweet little Cornwallian since you left her ? My most affectionate regards to my dear Master Lovell ...
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... thing that concerns me and my family , I take the liberty to inform you that my son James is dead ; that the last duties to him are now paid ; and that I am endeavouring to return , with the little ability that is left me , and with ...
... thing that concerns me and my family , I take the liberty to inform you that my son James is dead ; that the last duties to him are now paid ; and that I am endeavouring to return , with the little ability that is left me , and with ...
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acquaintance Adieu admire affection affectionate agreeable ANNA SEWARD answer assure beautiful believe bishop bless border ballads Burke Byron comfort CONYERS MIDDLETON Cowper dear friend dear madam DEAR SIR death desire Edmund Burke EDWARD GIBBON endeavour epistolary esteem express favour feel Franklin friendship give hand happy hear heart HENRY KIRKE WHITE honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant JAMES BEATTIE JAMES THOMSON John Dryden Julius Cæsar kind labour Lady learned less letter live Lord Lord Byron Lord Kilmarnock lordship mean ment mind never night obliged occasion perhaps person pleased pleasure poem pray present reason received remember respect sent sentiments sincere soon sorry spirit sure tell thank thing thought tion town translation Trenton verse virtue Walpole William Cowper wish word write written yesterday young
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Page 155 - 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...
Page 154 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Page 154 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending : but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 47 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures...
Page 318 - He was pleased to coincide, and to dwell on the description of your Jameses as no less royal than poetical. He spoke alternately of Homer and yourself, and seemed well acquainted with hoth ; so that (with the exception of the Turks * and your humble servant) you were in very good company.
Page 254 - The morning after my exit, the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily, and marry as fast, as they were used to do. The memory of man, as it is elegantly expressed in the Wisdom of Solomon, passcth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day.
Page 158 - It is like that of a fine organ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil.
Page 226 - Almost all the parts of our bodies require some expense. The feet demand shoes ; the legs stockings ; the rest of the body clothing ; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses. nor fine furniture.
Page 235 - God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.
Page 254 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.