Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Bind 1W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... sure he will do all he can to make my book a pretty one . As for correcting of proofs , & c . , I dare say I might very safely leave that also to Mr Ballantyne ; but I have a friend in Edinburgh , ( a Mr W who will find it quite an ...
... sure he will do all he can to make my book a pretty one . As for correcting of proofs , & c . , I dare say I might very safely leave that also to Mr Ballantyne ; but I have a friend in Edinburgh , ( a Mr W who will find it quite an ...
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... sure , would disdain , with all his might , the idea of being coupled with the other . What you or I might be apt to desig- nate by the same term , would , I am certain , co- incide in very few points with any notion he may happen to ...
... sure , would disdain , with all his might , the idea of being coupled with the other . What you or I might be apt to desig- nate by the same term , would , I am certain , co- incide in very few points with any notion he may happen to ...
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... sure , even you would have allowed that there was no want of beauty . It is many years since I have been fa- miliar with the beau - monde of London , but I do not believe I ever , in any one evening there , saw a greater number of fine ...
... sure , even you would have allowed that there was no want of beauty . It is many years since I have been fa- miliar with the beau - monde of London , but I do not believe I ever , in any one evening there , saw a greater number of fine ...
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... sure , that the mere handsomeness of a great man is one of the last things about him that fixes my attention . I do not wish , neither , to deny , that , when I first saw Goethe , the sublime simplicity of his Homeric beauty - the awful ...
... sure , that the mere handsomeness of a great man is one of the last things about him that fixes my attention . I do not wish , neither , to deny , that , when I first saw Goethe , the sublime simplicity of his Homeric beauty - the awful ...
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... sure , his fea- tures are so fine that nothing could take much from their power . - But , to come back to our own small men , J has a good deal of this unhappy manner , and so loses much of what his features , such as they are , might ...
... sure , his fea- tures are so fine that nothing could take much from their power . - But , to come back to our own small men , J has a good deal of this unhappy manner , and so loses much of what his features , such as they are , might ...
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Side 179 - Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Side 134 - I AM a son of Mars, Who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars Wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, And that other in a trench, When welcoming the French At the sound of the drum.
Side 141 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Side 179 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Side 134 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...
Side 110 - Muse's lyre. Not beggar's brat on bulk begot ; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot ; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews...
Side 141 - He had small need of books ; for many a tale Traditionary, round the mountains hung, And many a legend, peopling the dark woods, Nourished Imagination in her growth, And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things.
Side 115 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Side 234 - Though Nature could not touch his heart By lovely forms and silent weather, And tender sounds, yet you might see At once, that Peter Bell and she Had often been together. A savage wildness round him hung As of a dweller out of doors ; In his whole figure and his mien A savage character was seen, Of mountains and of dreary moors.
Side 139 - His face and hands are still as brown as if he had lived entirely sub dio. His very hair has a coarse stringiness about it, which proves beyond dispute its utter ignorance of all the arts of the friseur ; and hangs in playful whips and cords about his ears, in a style of the most perfect innocence imaginable.