Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 pages |
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... learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time : he alone has a right to be con- sidered as the painter of classical antiquity . Sir Joshua has done him justice in this respect . He could give to the scenery of his ...
... learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time : he alone has a right to be con- sidered as the painter of classical antiquity . Sir Joshua has done him justice in this respect . He could give to the scenery of his ...
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... learned indifference . He wants , in one respect , grace , form , expression ; but he has every where sense and meaning , perfect costume and propriety . His personages always belong to the class and time represented , and are strictly ...
... learned indifference . He wants , in one respect , grace , form , expression ; but he has every where sense and meaning , perfect costume and propriety . His personages always belong to the class and time represented , and are strictly ...
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... learned air that breathes from the grassy quadrangles and stone walls of halls and colleges - was at home in the Bodleian ; and at Blenheim quite superseded the powdered Ciceroni that attended us , and that pointed in vain with his wand ...
... learned air that breathes from the grassy quadrangles and stone walls of halls and colleges - was at home in the Bodleian ; and at Blenheim quite superseded the powdered Ciceroni that attended us , and that pointed in vain with his wand ...
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... see the use of the learned languages , as he has observed that the greatest proficients in them are rather taciturn than otherwise , and hesitate in their speech more than other people . A ON COFFEE - HOUSE POLITICIANS . 59.
... see the use of the learned languages , as he has observed that the greatest proficients in them are rather taciturn than otherwise , and hesitate in their speech more than other people . A ON COFFEE - HOUSE POLITICIANS . 59.
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... learned and recondite that ever took place , on the com- parative merits of Lord Byron and Gray . A country - gentleman happened to drop in , and thinking to show off in London company , launched into a lofty panegyric on the Bard of ...
... learned and recondite that ever took place , on the com- parative merits of Lord Byron and Gray . A country - gentleman happened to drop in , and thinking to show off in London company , launched into a lofty panegyric on the Bard of ...
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Page 224 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 27 - God's trophies, and His work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath: yet much remains To conquer still; Peace hath her victories No less renowned than War: new foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw.
Page 30 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 62 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Page 319 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Page 21 - Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the...
Page 26 - Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud, Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd, And on the neck of crowned fortune proud Hast rear'd God's trophies and his work pursued, While Darwen stream with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureat wreath.
Page 27 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 27 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 29 - The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.