James and Horace Smith ...: A Family Narrative Based Upon Hitherto Unpublished Private Diaries, Letters, and Other DocumentsHurst and Blackett, limited, 1899 - 312 pages |
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James and Horace Smith ...: A Family Narrative Based Upon Hitherto ... Arthur Henry Beavan No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 219 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 172 - If Spring's voluptuous pantings when she breathes Her first sweet kisses — have been dear to me; If no bright bird, insect, or gentle beast, I consciously have injured, but still loved And cherished these my kindred...
Page 169 - The power of art without the show. In Misery's darkest caverns known, His ready help was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely Want retir'd to die.
Page 114 - Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane : While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit. At first, while vacant seats give choice and ease, Distant or near, they settle where they please ; But when the multitude contracts the span, And seats are rare, they settle where they can. Now the full benches to late-comers doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room.
Page 177 - He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, high-minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter.
Page 175 - More popular poets clothe the ideal with familiar and sensible imagery. Shelley loved to idealize the real — to gift the mechanism of the material universe with a soul and a voice, and to bestow such also on the most delicate and abstract emotions and thoughts of the mind.
Page 113 - MIDNIGHT, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep! Behold her streets ablaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all, abroad to gaze : House-top and balcony Clustered with women, who throw back their veils, With unimpeded and insatiate sight To view the funeral pomp which passes by, As if the mournful rite Were but to them a scene of joyance...
Page 15 - But this Dr. Love has done. In common parlance, he has "caught on," and you cannot "down him." But this is not to be wondered at when, we consider the extensive acquaintance he has with the medical profession throughout the State.
Page 136 - ... a mannerism in their very eating and drinking, in their mere handling a decanter. They talked of Kean and his low company. " Would I were with that company instead of yours,
Page 188 - ... judge's, and requested to speak to him on particular business. The judge was at dinner, but came down without delay, swore the affidavit, and then gravely asked what was the pressing necessity that induced our friend to disturb him at that hour. As Smith told the story, he raked his invention for a lie, but finding none fit for the purpose, he blurted out the truth : — " ' The fact is, my lord, I am engaged to dine at the next house — and — and — ' " ' And, sir, you thought you might...