Notes from a Diary, 1889-1891, Volume 2J. Murray, 1901 - Great Britain |
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... Father Barry , which was a most curious contrast to a sermon in the same church mentioned in these Notes for 1887 , being a perfect model , not only of good taste but of good sense . 21. Lady Reay repeated to me an anecdote which had ...
... Father Barry , which was a most curious contrast to a sermon in the same church mentioned in these Notes for 1887 , being a perfect model , not only of good taste but of good sense . 21. Lady Reay repeated to me an anecdote which had ...
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... father , the Explorer of the Monasteries of the Levant , there was one in which was sup- posed to be the autograph of Shakespeare . He took it to the British Museum , where they unhesitatingly pronounced the signature to be a forgery ...
... father , the Explorer of the Monasteries of the Levant , there was one in which was sup- posed to be the autograph of Shakespeare . He took it to the British Museum , where they unhesitatingly pronounced the signature to be a forgery ...
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... father having gone one morning to Ferney to break- fast , and being in Voltaire's bedroom , M. Fabri de Gex came in with an artist of his acquaintance , whom he wished to introduce to Voltaire . The artist was attended by a dog that ...
... father having gone one morning to Ferney to break- fast , and being in Voltaire's bedroom , M. Fabri de Gex came in with an artist of his acquaintance , whom he wished to introduce to Voltaire . The artist was attended by a dog that ...
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... father was , it appears , an Irishman , while her mother was English circumstances which may partially account for her extraordinary success in depicting the difference between the character of the English and Irish , as well as the ...
... father was , it appears , an Irishman , while her mother was English circumstances which may partially account for her extraordinary success in depicting the difference between the character of the English and Irish , as well as the ...
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... father Sir Arthur , with us . I talked with the last - mentioned about the Princess Lieven's letters to Lord Aberdeen , and told him Hübner's story of her ( see these Notes for 21st July 1889 ) . " Did you ever hear , " he asked me in ...
... father Sir Arthur , with us . I talked with the last - mentioned about the Princess Lieven's letters to Lord Aberdeen , and told him Hübner's story of her ( see these Notes for 21st July 1889 ) . " Did you ever hear , " he asked me in ...
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Page 62 - Then he comes to understand how it is that lines, the birth of some chance morning or evening at an Ionian festival, or among the Sabine hills, have lasted generation after generation, for thousands of years, with a power over the mind, and a charm, which the current literature of his own day, with all its obvious advantages, is utterly unable to rival.
Page 45 - Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 42 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain ! But when I speak— thou dost not...
Page 239 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 62 - Virgil, as if a prophet or magician ; his single words and phrases, his pathetic half lines, giving utterance, as the voice of Nature herself, to that pain and weariness, yet hope of better things, which is the experience of her children in every time.
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Page 140 - Le moment du triomphe des saints est vraiment celui de leur mort. Leur vie, appréciée d'après nos idées modernes, semble imparfaite, en ce sens qu'ils ont été exclusifs, qu'ils n'ont vu les choses que par un seul côté, qu'ils ont manqué de critique et d'étendue d'esprit. Je ne souhaiterais pas leur vie, mais je suis jaloux de leur mort. A voir ces fins glorieuses et calmes, l'âme se relève et se fortifie ; on reprend quelque estime pour la nature humaine, on se persuade que cette nature...
Page 97 - KINGS OF ENGLAND, — names •which an Englishman can scarcely read without a smile or a sigh ! Often at the present day does the British traveller turn from the sunny crest of the Pincian, or the carnival throng of the Corso, to gaze in thoughtful silence on that mockery of human greatness, and that last record of ruined hopes...
Page 209 - AD 1823.] regarded politics as the art of cheating the people, by concealing one-half of the truth and misrepresenting the other ; and whatever abstract enthusiasm he might feel for military glory was joined to an innate detestation of the trade of war. Both his character and his conduct presented unceasing contradictions. It seemed as if two different souls occupied his body alternately. One was feminine, and full of sympathy ; the other masculine, and characterized by clear judgment, and by a rare...
Page 97 - Thomas Simon most humbly prays your Majesty to compare this his tryal piece with the Dutch, and if more truly drawn and embossed, more gracefully ordered, and more accurately engraven, to relieve him...