Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Bind 1W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... heard of his qualifications in that way , from some of the best judges . I know of . The First Edition being but a coarse job , and so small withal , I did not think of him , but trust there will be nothing to prevent him undertaking ...
... heard of his qualifications in that way , from some of the best judges . I know of . The First Edition being but a coarse job , and so small withal , I did not think of him , but trust there will be nothing to prevent him undertaking ...
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... heard , that my pencil was in request while I was in Scotland , almost as much as my pen , and that I have now a very rich port- folio of the chief worthies I met with in that northern region . In this matter , too , I am inclined to ...
... heard , that my pencil was in request while I was in Scotland , almost as much as my pen , and that I have now a very rich port- folio of the chief worthies I met with in that northern region . In this matter , too , I am inclined to ...
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... heard of him a thousand times . And yet you may have met him at my rooms , or North's ; for I think he determined , after you began to reside . At all events , you remember to have heard me describe his strange eccentric character - his ...
... heard of him a thousand times . And yet you may have met him at my rooms , or North's ; for I think he determined , after you began to reside . At all events , you remember to have heard me describe his strange eccentric character - his ...
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... heard me speak of , W proceeded to the North , where he spent several years in severe study , not a whit dis- couraged in his views , or shaken from his attach- ments , by the singular catastrophe to which the constitutional and ...
... heard me speak of , W proceeded to the North , where he spent several years in severe study , not a whit dis- couraged in his views , or shaken from his attach- ments , by the singular catastrophe to which the constitutional and ...
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... tation , and I never heard him in my life give more than one sentence to the expression of any opinion he entertains . * Having now succeeded to the family estate , which is a very ancient , and a tolerably produc- 18 MR W- Mr W of.
... tation , and I never heard him in my life give more than one sentence to the expression of any opinion he entertains . * Having now succeeded to the family estate , which is a very ancient , and a tolerably produc- 18 MR W- Mr W of.
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Side 123 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
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 220 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Side 141 - He had perceived the presence and the power Of greatness ; and deep feelings had impressed Great objects on his mind, with portraiture And colour so distinct, that on his mind They lay like substances, and almost seemed To haunt the bodily sense.
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 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 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 55 - It is a face which any man would pass without observation in a crowd, because it is small and swarthy, and entirely devoid of lofty or commanding outlines — and besides, his stature is so low, that he might walk close under your chin or mine without ever catching the eye even for a moment.
Side 127 - His declamation is often loose and irregular to an extent that is not quite worthy of a man of his fine education and masculine powers ; but all is redeemed, and more than redeemed, by his rich abundance of quick, generous, and expansive feeling. The flashing brightness, and now and then the still more expressive dimness of his eye — and the tremulous music of a voice that is equally at home in the highest and the lowest of...