Memoirs of Doctor Burney, Band 3E. Moxon, 1832 |
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Seite 14 - Mr. Langton then came himself. He could not look at me, and I turned away from him. Mrs. Davis asked how the Doctor was? " Going on to death very fast !" was his mournful answer. " Has he taken," said she, " anything ?" " Nothing at all ! We carried him some bread and milk — he refused it, and said —
Seite 165 - Susanna and Fredy could meet this wonderful man when he is easy, happy, and with people he cordially likes ! But politics, even on his own side, must always be excluded ; his irritability is so terrible on that theme that it gives immediately to his face the expression of a man who is going to defend himself from murderers.
Seite 5 - No; but he had seen a man, and knew, therefore, how to vary him to a monster. A man who would draw a monstrous cow, must first know what a cow commonly is; or how can he tell that to give her an ass's head or an elephant's tusk will make her monstrous? Suppose you...
Seite 19 - that is because, in those serious speeches, there are none of those puns, quibbles, and peculiar idioms of Shakspeare and his times, for which there are no equivalents in other languages.
Seite 3 - Lichfield, has been deplorably deteriorated. He was alone, and I had a more satisfactory and entertaining conversation with him than I have had for many months past. He was in better spirits, too, than I have seen him, except upon our first meeting, since he came back to Bolt Court. He owned, nevertheless, that his nights were grievously restless and painful ; and told me that he was going, by medical advice, to try what sleeping out of town might do for him. And then, with a smile. but a smile of...
Seite 5 - Genius is nothing more than knowing the use of tools; but there must be tools for it to use: a man who has spent all his life in this room will give a very poor account of what is contained in the next." "Certainly, sir; yet there is such a thing as invention? Shakespeare could never have seen a Caliban.
Seite 7 - Be not," he said, in a voice of even tenderness, "be not longer in coming again for my letting you go now." I assured him I would be the sooner, and was running off, but he called me back, in a solemn voice, and in a manner the most energetic, said, " Remember me in your prayers !" I longed to ask him to remember me, but did not dare.
Seite 173 - As to me, gentlemen, I have some title to give my opinions freely. Would you know what my title is derived from ? I challenge any man to inquire ! If he ask my birth, — its genealogy may dispute with kings ! If my wealth, it is all for which I have time to hold out my hand ! If my talents, — No ! of those, gentlemen, I leave you to judge for yourselves !" But I have now time for no more upon this day, except that Mr.
Seite 170 - Miss Burney, it must be recollected, was at this time in the queen's family. ' Our evening finished more curiously than desirably, by a junction that robbed us of the conversation of Mr. Burke. This was the entrance of Lord Loughborough and of Mr. and Mrs. Erskine, who, having villas at Hampstead, and knowing nothing of Mrs. Crewe's party, called in accidentally from a walk. If not accidentally, Mr. Erskine, at least, would probably have denied himself a visit that brought him into a coterie with...
Seite 6 - ... it ; that is to say, overturned, and walk on : he who has genius will give it a glance of examination, that will paint it to his imagination such as it was previously to its being overturned, and when it was standing still, and when it was in motion, and when it was heavy loaded, and when it was empty ; but both alike must see the waggon to think of it at all.