Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1819 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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... doubt , is one of W's pleasant exaggerations . Although , however , the whole of the city , and the whole of its society , be more than enough redolent of the influence of this profession , it is by no means to be denied , that a very ...
... doubt , is one of W's pleasant exaggerations . Although , however , the whole of the city , and the whole of its society , be more than enough redolent of the influence of this profession , it is by no means to be denied , that a very ...
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... doubt , from the mode in which he delivered himself , that he must have been a most - accomplished debater when at the Bar . At the other extremity , the greatest stream of business seemed to rush in the direction of Lord P's tribunal ...
... doubt , from the mode in which he delivered himself , that he must have been a most - accomplished debater when at the Bar . At the other extremity , the greatest stream of business seemed to rush in the direction of Lord P's tribunal ...
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... doubt that it may have been so . He died very suddenly , and in the same week with Lord Melville , who had been through life his most dear and intimate friend ; and the sensation produced all over Scotland by this two - fold ca- lamity ...
... doubt that it may have been so . He died very suddenly , and in the same week with Lord Melville , who had been through life his most dear and intimate friend ; and the sensation produced all over Scotland by this two - fold ca- lamity ...
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... doubt , that he was cut off not far from the commencement of a judicial career , which , if it had been continued through such a space of time as the ordinary course of nature might have promised , would have done more for perfecting ...
... doubt , that he was cut off not far from the commencement of a judicial career , which , if it had been continued through such a space of time as the ordinary course of nature might have promised , would have done more for perfecting ...
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... doubt , by far the greatest master Scotland ever has produ- ced . I went one day , by mere accident , into my friend John Ballantyne's Sale - room , at the moment when that most cunning of all tempters had in his hand a little pen and ...
... doubt , by far the greatest master Scotland ever has produ- ced . I went one day , by mere accident , into my friend John Ballantyne's Sale - room , at the moment when that most cunning of all tempters had in his hand a little pen and ...
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Page 289 - Sunbeams, upon distant hills Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly. The Zephyrs fanning, as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep...
Page 198 - Gabriel was a preacher or licentiate of the Kirk, employed as domestic tutor in a gentleman's family in Edinburgh, where he had for pupils two fine boys of eight or ten years of age. The tutor entertained, it seems, some partiality for the Abigail of the children's mother ; and it so happened that one of his pupils observed him kiss the girl one day in passing through an anteroom, where she was sitting. The little fellow carried this interesting piece of- intelligence to his brother, and both of...
Page 289 - And filled the illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter, lifting a bright eye Up towards the crescent moon, with grateful heart Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed That timely light, to share his joyous sport : And hence, a beaming Goddess with her Nymphs, Across the lawn and through the darksome grove, Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave, Swept in the storm of chase ; as moon and stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven, When winds are...
Page 143 - The reading public of Edinburgh do not criticise Mr Wordsworth; they think him below their criticism; they know nothing about what he has done, or what he is likely to do. They think him a mere old sequestered hermit, eaten up with vanity and affectation, who publishes every now and then some absurd poem about a Washing-Tub, or a Leech-Gatherer, or a Little Grey Cloak. They do not know even the names of some of the finest poems our age has produced.
Page 199 - ... the spirit of this juvenile presbyterian — his whole soul became filled with the blackest demons of rage, and he resolved to sacrifice to his indignation the instruments of what he conceived to be so deadly a disgrace. It was Sunday, and after going to church as usual with his pupils, he led them out to walk in the country — for the ground on which the New Town of Edinburgh now stands, was then considered as the country by the people of Edinburgh. After passing calmly, to all appearance,...
Page 346 - ... entitled to claim credit for the extent and importance of the class of ideas to which he has drawn the public attention; and if it be so, what small matters all his deficiencies or irregularities are, when put in the balance against such praise as this. At a time when the literature of Scotland — and of England too — was becoming every day more and more destitute of command over every thing but the mere speculative understanding of men — this great genius seems to have been raised up to...
Page 199 - The idea of having been detected in such a trivial trespass was enough to poison for ever the spirit of this juvenile Presbyterian — his whole soul became filled with the blackest demons of rage, and he resolved to sacrifice to his indignation the instruments of what he conceived to be so deadly a disgrace. It was Sunday, and after going to...
Page 289 - ... for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side; And, sometimes, intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard,— These were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities; or Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God!
Page 38 - As one little trait, illustrative of Lord Melville's manner of conducting himself to the people of Scotland, I may mention, that to the latest period of his life, whenever he came to Edinburgh, he made a point of calling in person on all the old ladies with whom he had been acquainted in the days of his youth. He might be seen going about, and climbing...
Page 199 - Sunday, and after going to the church as usual with his pupils, he led them out to walk in the country — for the ground on which the New Town of Edinburgh now stands, was then considered as the country by the people of Edinburgh. After passing calmly, to all appearance, through several of the green fields, which have now become streets and squares, he came to a place more lonely than the rest, and there drawing a large clasp-knife from his pocket, he at once stabbed the elder of his pupils to the...