Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 pages |
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... affectionate father , had reached the end of what is called a romantic journey to Madrid in quest of a wife . The romancers had passed in disguise through France under the undignified names of Jack and Tom Smith , and at the time this ...
... affectionate father , had reached the end of what is called a romantic journey to Madrid in quest of a wife . The romancers had passed in disguise through France under the undignified names of Jack and Tom Smith , and at the time this ...
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... affectionate vassal , ESSEX . XXXVI . The Earl of Essex to Queen Elizabeth . Portland Roads : July 6 , 1597 . Most dear and most excellent Sovereign , -I received your gracious letter full of princely care , of sweetness , and of power ...
... affectionate vassal , ESSEX . XXXVI . The Earl of Essex to Queen Elizabeth . Portland Roads : July 6 , 1597 . Most dear and most excellent Sovereign , -I received your gracious letter full of princely care , of sweetness , and of power ...
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... affectionate wishes . ESSEX . XXXVII . In spite of the failure of the expedition to Spain , and of many other omissions , Essex retained his place at Court . In the summer of 1598 , in the course of a warm discussion on the proposed ap ...
... affectionate wishes . ESSEX . XXXVII . In spite of the failure of the expedition to Spain , and of many other omissions , Essex retained his place at Court . In the summer of 1598 , in the course of a warm discussion on the proposed ap ...
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... affectionately than if you were his father . Some of us are ap- pointed to bishopricks ; Cox to Ely , Scory to Hereford , Allen to Rochester , Grindal to London , Barton to Chichester , and I , the least of the apostles , to Salisbury ...
... affectionately than if you were his father . Some of us are ap- pointed to bishopricks ; Cox to Ely , Scory to Hereford , Allen to Rochester , Grindal to London , Barton to Chichester , and I , the least of the apostles , to Salisbury ...
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... affectionate Servant , XLV . JOHN DONNE . Dr. Donne to Sir Henry Goodere . August 15 , 1607 . Sir , -In the history or style of friendship which is best written both in deeds and words , a letter which is of a mixed nature , and hath ...
... affectionate Servant , XLV . JOHN DONNE . Dr. Donne to Sir Henry Goodere . August 15 , 1607 . Sir , -In the history or style of friendship which is best written both in deeds and words , a letter which is of a mixed nature , and hath ...
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acquainted admiration affection affectionate Alexander Pope Anne Boleyn answer beauty believe Charles comfort Countess of Bute Dean Swift dear death desire Duke Earl endeavour England English esteem father favour fortune France French friendship give grace hand happy hath hear heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole Horatio Nelson humble servant James Howel John JOHN DRYDEN John Evelyn Joseph Addison kind King Lady live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron Lordship Madam Majesty Majesty's manner matter mean mind nature never obliged Oliver Cromwell opinion Parliament passion person pleased pleasure poem poet Pope pray present Queen reason received Robert Herrick Samuel Johnson sent sure tell thank thee things thought tion told true truth unto virtue William wish word write written young
Popular passages
Page 43 - I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times.
Page 239 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, your Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, 'SAM JOHNSON.
Page 298 - I have written a hundred letters to different friends in your country, and never received an answer from any of them. I do not know how to account for this, or why they are unwilling to keep up for me those regards which I must ever retain for them.
Page 517 - ... delivered. 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Psal. cxxv. Qui confidant. HEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion : which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. 2 The hills stand about Jerusalem : even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.
Page 195 - As to the latter, I desire you to read over the Text, and make a few in any way you like best2 ; whether dry raillery, upon the style and way of commenting of trivial Critics ; or humorous, upon the authors in the poem ; or historical, of persons, places, times ; or explanatory ; or collecting the parallel passages of the Ancients.
Page 310 - I tell you again, — that the recollection of the manner in which I saw the queen of France, in the year 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to her, — and the abominable scene of 1789, which I was describing, — did draw tears from me, and wetted my paper. These tears came again into my eyes, almost as often as I looked at the description ; they may again.
Page 41 - ... than myself; for, I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done ; and in absence are many errors, which I do willingly acknowledge ; and, amongst the rest, this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to be. fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes ; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the pre-occupation of my mind.
Page 509 - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Page 521 - I think if I had a free and healthy and lasting organisation of heart, and lungs as strong as an ox's so as to be able to bear unhurt the shock of extreme thought and sensation without weariness, I could pass my life very nearly alone though it should last eighty years. But I feel my body too weak to support me to the height, I am obliged continually to check myself, and be nothing.