Beattie and His FriendsA. Constable & Company, Limited, 1904 - 332 pages |
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Page 92 - My other poems, I said, were incorrect, being but juvenile pieces, and of little consequence, even in my own opinion. We had much conversation on moral subjects; from which both their Majesties let it appear, that they were warm friends...
Page 228 - ... where he was pleased to introduce me to the Queen, who inquired very kindly after my health ; observed, that many years had passed since she saw me last ; regretted the bad weather which I had met with at Windsor, (for it rained incessantly) which, said she, has made your friends see less of you than they wished ; and, after some other conversation, her Majesty and the Princess Elizabeth, who attended her, made a slight curtsey, and stepped into the carriage that waited for them at the chapel-door....
Page 119 - Yes, said he, with firmness, I think so. Look at yourself, I replied, and consider your hands and fingers, your legs and feet, and other limbs; are not they regular in their appearance, and useful to you ? He said, they were. Came you then hither, said I, by chance ? No, he answered, that cannot be ; something must have made me.
Page 20 - Scarce had lamented Forbes paid The tribute to his Minstrel's shade ; The tale of friendship scarce was told, Ere the narrator's heart was cold : Far may we search before we find A heart so manly and so kind...
Page 92 - ... was a book they always kept by them ; and the King said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but one,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours (speaking to me); I stole it from the Queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
Page 93 - that three services are joined in one in the ordinary church service, which is one cause of those repetitions.' ' True,' he replied, ' and that circumstance also makes the service too long.
Page 304 - ... ladies eminent in literature, but she excelled them all ; and in conversation she had more wit than any other person, male or female, whom I have ever known. These, however, were her slighter accomplishments : what was infinitely more to her honour, she was a sincere Christian, both in faith and in practice, and took every proper opportunity to show it; so that by her example and influence she did much good. I knew her husband, who died in extreme old age, in the year...
Page 92 - ... which I felt at the beginning of the conference. They both complimented me, in the highest terms, on my ' Essay,' which, they said, was a book they always kept by them ; and the King said he had one copy of it at Kow, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but one...
Page 55 - I find you are willing to suppose, that, in Edwin, I have given only a picture of myself, as I was in my younger days. I confess the supposition is not groundless.
Page 33 - I am somewhat inclinable to fatness, like Dr Arbuthnot and Aristotle; and I drink brandy and water, like Mr Boyd. I might compare myself, in relation to many other infirmities, to many other great men ; but if fortune is not influenced in my favour by the particulars already enumerated, I shall despair of ever recommending myself to her good graces.