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Seite 147 - I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and looking through the glass saw all the world in yellow, blue, and green, running at the ring of pleasure.
Seite 257 - Hamilton hills) can produce, — with a clean cloth on my table, and a bottle of wine on my right hand to drink your health. I have a hundred hens and chickens about my yard ; and not a parishioner catches a hare, or a rabbit, or a trout, but he brings it as an offering to me.
Seite 335 - Soften'd his spirit) look'd and lay, Watching the rosy infant's play : Though still, whene'er his eye by chance Fell on the boy's, its lurid glance Met that unclouded joyous gaze, As torches, that have...
Seite 269 - I can answer for those two. It is a subject which works well, and suits the frame of mind I have been in for some time past — I told you my design in it was to teach us to love the world and our fellow-creatures better than we do — so it runs most upon those gentler passions and affections, which aid so much to it.
Seite 95 - I was within an ace of setting up my hobby-horse in her stable for good and all. I might as well, considering how the enemies of the Lord have blasphemed thereupon.
Seite 40 - I was detain'd unhappily by the ill health of my daughter, who, at 14, is fallen into a confirmed asthma ; for which she is advised to winter at Toulouse or Nice, as the only chance to save her. Whilst I was soliciting passports for her and my wife, I was unhappily myself attack'd with a fever, which has ended the worst way it could for me, in a defluxion poitrine, as the French physicians call it. It is generally fatal to weak lungs...
Seite 232 - I am unhappy — thy mother and thyself at a distance from me ; and what can compensate for such a destitution ? For God's sake, persuade her to come and fix in England, for life is too short to waste in separation ; and, whilst she lives in one country and I in another, many people will suppose it proceeds from choice ; besides, I want thee near me, thou child and darling of my heart...
Seite 23 - ... is the Garrick of the stage here ; he has infinite variety, and keeps up the attention by it wonderfully ; his pulpit, oblong, with three seats in it, into which he occasionally casts himself; goes on, then rises, by a gradation of four steps, each of which he profits by, as his discourse inclines him ; in short 'tis a stage, and the variety of his tones would make you imagine there were no less than five or six actors on it together.
Seite 91 - Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
Seite 210 - Tis expressive of her modest worth — but may heav'n restore her ! and may she live to write mine. ' Columns, and labour'd urns but vainly shew, An idle scene of decorated woe. The sweet companion, and the friend sincere, Need no mechanic help to force the tear. In heart-felt numbers, never meant to shine, "Twill flow eternal o'er a hearse like thine ; 'Twill flow, whilst gentle goodness has one friend, Or kindred tempers have a tear to lend.