Personal memoirs; or, Reminiscences of men and manners, Том 2 |
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Стр. 203 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Стр. 250 - Ferdinand' Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Стр. 328 - I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of ' Casti has been to me ; I have almost got him by heart. I had 'read his Animali Parlanti, but I think these Novelle much better. I long to go to Venice to see the manners so admirably described.
Стр. 321 - Duff when he was nine years old, "and we met," he said, " at the dancing-school." He made many inquiries about her, and if she was still as handsome. " She is a year older than I am; I have never seen her since I left Aberdeen. Some of the first verses I ever wrote were in praise of her beauty. I know she is happily marVOL. II. X 322 HIS VISIT TO \VATEUI.OO. ried, which I rejoice at.
Стр. 322 - As he proposed visiting Waterloo on the following morning, I offered my services as his cicerone, which were graciously accepted, and we set out at an early hour, accompanied by his compagnon de voyage. The weather was propitious, but the poet's spirits seemed depressed, and we passed through the gloomy forest of Soignies without much conversation. As the plan of the inspection of the field had been left to me, I ordered our postillion to drive to Mont St. Jean, without stopping at Waterloo. We got...
Стр. 293 - British infantry. One might have been almost tempted to fancy that it had rooted itself in the ground, but for the majestic movement which its battalions commenced some minutes after sunset...
Стр. 337 - He told us, with great humour, a laughable incident which had occurred to him at Antwerp. The morning after his arrival at that city from Holland, he started at an early hour to visit the tomb of Rubens in the Church of St Jacques, before liis party were up.
Стр. 333 - He blabbed this to his mother, who would on no account permit the course. But the ride was not to be abandoned, and he gave his parole that he would not gallop, and kept religiously to it; for, though he was a spoiled child, and had too much of his own way, he never did any thing intentionally to disoblige or vex her, — at least so she has often told me.
Стр. 320 - He had no pleasure," he said, " equal to that of meeting a friend of his mother's, and of his early age." I had not seen him for fourteen years, when he was at Harrow, at the age of fifteen. I found much less change in his appearance than there generally is from youth to manhood; the general expression of his countenance had become very like his mother's— a beautiful, mild, and intelligent eye, fringed with long and dark lashes; an expansive and noble forehead, over which hung in thick clusters...
Стр. 118 - He says it is impossible to imagine any thing so admirably curious, whether one considers the elegance of the attitudes, the richness of the composition, the delicacy of the naked figures, the perspective proportion of the objects, the distances, scenery, buildings, or other ornaments ; for every part is beautiful and inimitable.