Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.Little, Brown and Company, 1853 |
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Strona 191 - But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle-blade ; And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry.
Strona 400 - I CLIMBED the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn, Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide : All was still, save, by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied.
Strona 400 - When, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob by the side of his dam.
Strona 33 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Strona 217 - I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator; " Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me.
Strona 65 - Had you any conversation with Brougham ? He is an uncommon genius, of a composite order, if you allow me to use the expression; he unites the greatest ardour for general information in every branch of knowledge, and, what is more remarkable, activity in the business, and interest in the pleasures of the world, with all the powers of a mathematical intellect.
Strona 102 - It will depend on the sweep and turn of my speculations, whether they shall be thrown into the form of a discursive commentary on the ' Instauratio Magna ' of that great author, or shall be entitled to an original form, under the title of a ' View of the Limits of Human Knowledge and a System of the Principles of Philosophical Inquiry.
Strona 201 - I do think he would have proven an eminent Christian had he lived; but the ministers, out of a pious, though I think ignorant zeal, spoke and preached for cutting him off.
Strona 308 - ... so artfully clear that you think every successive inference unavoidable; so rapid that you have no leisure to reflect where you have been brought from, or to see where you are to be carried, and so dry of ornament or illustration or refreshment, that the attention is stretched — stretched — racked. All this is done without a single note.
Strona 154 - Lord Shelburne (afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne), when a young man, paid a visit to the venerable Malesherbes, and was so much impressed by it, that he said — " I have travelled much, but I have never been so influenced by personal contact with any man; and if I ever accomplish any good in the course...