Selected Essays, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1878 - Biography |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 45
Page 12
... received a ready welcome during his expatriation in the North . On the whole , therefore , the stress of politics ' which compelled him to put into Edinburgh , instead of re- pairing to Weimar and falling under the influence of Goethe ...
... received a ready welcome during his expatriation in the North . On the whole , therefore , the stress of politics ' which compelled him to put into Edinburgh , instead of re- pairing to Weimar and falling under the influence of Goethe ...
Page 58
... , he said , ' Daniel Webster strikes me much like a steam - engine in trowsers . ' On receiving some American papers taking his side of the Repudiation question , he wrote : ' Bowood , Jan. 8 , 1844 . ' Dear 58 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
... , he said , ' Daniel Webster strikes me much like a steam - engine in trowsers . ' On receiving some American papers taking his side of the Repudiation question , he wrote : ' Bowood , Jan. 8 , 1844 . ' Dear 58 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
Page 69
... received your letter , ' she replies , ' two days since , I should have said your arguments and theory were perfectly convincing , and that the most obstinate sceptic must have yielded to them ; but I have come across a person in that ...
... received your letter , ' she replies , ' two days since , I should have said your arguments and theory were perfectly convincing , and that the most obstinate sceptic must have yielded to them ; but I have come across a person in that ...
Page 73
... received a few words of advice , pressed an extended hand , and blessed the death - bed . Sydney Smith died on the 22nd of February , 1845 . 1 The Corsair ; referring to Sir Thomas More's joke on his beard , and Anne Boleyn's on the ...
... received a few words of advice , pressed an extended hand , and blessed the death - bed . Sydney Smith died on the 22nd of February , 1845 . 1 The Corsair ; referring to Sir Thomas More's joke on his beard , and Anne Boleyn's on the ...
Page 80
... received at a Dissenting school at Hackney , where he learned Latin enough to enable him to read the easier Latin classics with faci- lity . By the time he quitted it , he had got rid of his pulpit aspirations , and he is not recorded ...
... received at a Dissenting school at Hackney , where he learned Latin enough to enable him to read the easier Latin classics with faci- lity . By the time he quitted it , he had got rid of his pulpit aspirations , and he is not recorded ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquainted Adam Müller Adèle admiration agreeable Alexandre Dumas amongst amusing Andlau Antony asked beauty believe Beyle Beyle's breakfast Byron called character Combe Florey conversation dinner Duchess Dumas EDINBURGH REVIEW England English exclaimed eyes fancy father Faustine feeling fortune France French Friedrich Gentz genius Gentz give Hahn-Hahn hand happy heart honour humour Lady letter literary living London look Lord Lord Brougham Lord Byron Madame de Staël Mademoiselle Mars manner Maria marriage married Memoirs Mengen Metternich mind Miss Edgeworth moral never novels object Paris party passages passed passion person play pleasure poet popular Prince Prussia published remarkable replied Rogers Rogers's scene Sheridan society speak spirit story style Sydney Smith talk taste Theodore Hook things thought tion told tone Ulrich vanity Victor Hugo Vienna volumes whilst woman words writes wrote young
Popular passages
Page 322 - little less poetical, and certainly more useful in her way: ' A creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 123 - Envy must own I live among the great No pimp of pleasure, and no spy of State: With eyes that pry not, tongue that ne'er repeats, Fond to spread friendships, but to cover heats; To help who want, to forward who excel, This all who know me, know; who love me, tell.
Page 118 - had little real admiration for the greatest of poets: and he frequently read aloud from Ben Jonson's ' Discoveries:'— ' I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writings, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would he had blotted out a thousand !" ' Rogers always laid a strong emphasis on the concluding sentence.
Page 94 - finer forms, the miracles of art; Here chosen gems, imprest on sulphur, shine That slept for ages in a second mine; And here the faithful graver dares to trace A Michael's grandeur and a Raphael's grace! Thy gallery, Florence, gilds my humble walls, And my low roof the Vatican recalls.
Page 79 - distinction, power, Are baubles nothing worth, that only serve To rouse us up, as children in the schools Are roused up to exertion. The reward Is in the race we run, not in the prize And they, the few, that have it ere they earn it, VOL. i.
Page 106 - Why, what is the matter 1" " Oh, don't you know he has produced a couplet ? When our friend is delivered of a couplet, with infinite pain and labour, he takes to his bed, has straw laid down, the knocker tied up, expects his friends to call and make
Page 31 - Good life be now my task : my dcubts are done : What more could fright my faith than three in one ?' The Hind and Panther. Fox, in conversation with Rogers, termed Dryden's defence of
Page 137 - bailiffs may seize his last blanket to-day Whose pall shall be held up by nobles to-morrow.' But it cheers the heart to see one neither great nor highborn stepping forward to prevent that last blanket from being seized ; and, ' in the train of all this phalanx of
Page 89 - so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ? With conscious truth, retrace the mazy clue Of summer scents, that charmed her as she flew ? Hail, Memory, hail! thy universal reign Guards the least link of Being's glorious
Page 354 - of admiration,— that of all men he is the most open, the most honourable, the most amiable. With his politics I have nothing to do; they differ from mine, which renders it difficult for me to speak of them. But he is perfectly sincere in