Literary Recollections, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830 |
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Page 118 - Jervis and Dr. Priestley attended the body. On the first day of the melancholy journey, the latter gentleman, who had hitherto said little on the subject of the appearance to Mr. Alsop, suddenly addressed his companion, with considerable emotion, in nearly these words. ' There are some very singular circumstances connected with this event, Mr. Jervis ; and a most remarkable coincidence, between a dream of the late Lord William and our present mournful engagement. A few weeks ago, as I was passing...
Page 479 - Isaeus, excellent and valuable as they are, have given more fatigue to my head and eyes than the whole translation. Half an hour in the day would be as much time as you could employ in forming your characters, and you would save four times as much of your friends
Page 116 - Bowood: but an unclouded moon showed every object in unequivocal distinctness. Mr. Alsop had passed through the Lodge Gate, and was proceeding to the house, when, to his utter astonishment, he saw Lord William coming towards him, in all the buoyancy of childhood, restored, apparently, to health and vigour. — "I am delighted, my dear
Page 6 - That tongue which set the table in a roar, And charmed the public ear, is heard no more ! Closed are those eyes, the harbingers of wit, Which spake before the tongue what Shakespeare writ : Cold is that hand, which, living, was stretched forth At Friendship's call, to succour modest worth.
Page 441 - ... suppositions contrary to all probability, I have no reasonable hopes of recovery, the swelling which began at my legs, being now got up to my belly and head. I am a trouble to all about me, especially to my poor wife, who has the life of a slave night and day, helping me to take care of my diseased frame.
Page 4 - Beatus ille qui sibi imperiosus! If social virtues make remembrance dear, Or manners pure on decent rule depend; To His remains consign one grateful tear, Of youth the Guardian, and of all the Friend. Now sleeps Dominion; here no Beauty flows. Nor more avails the festive scene to grace. Beneath that hand which no discernment shows, Untaught to honour, or distinguish place.
Page 117 - The child made no reply, but, turning round, was quickly out of sight. Mr. Alsop, unspeakably surprised, hurried to the house. Here all was distress and confusion, for Lord William had expired a few minutes before he reached the portico.
Page 162 - A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 202 - Priestley, indeed, be confuted,where he is mistaken. " Let him be exposed, where he is superficial. Let him be " repressed, where he is dogmatical. Let him be rebuked, " where he is censorious; but, let not his attainments be " depreciated : because they are numerous, almost without " a parallel. Let not his talents be ridiculed ; because, they " are superlatively great. Let not his morals be vilified ; " because, they are correct without austerity...
Page 38 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.