Letters from the Mountains: Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1807, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, J. Hatchard, Mrs. Cook, 1809 - 220 Seiten |
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Seite 28 - In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Seite 43 - ... glen so narrow, so warm, so fertile, so " overhung by mountains which seem to meet " above you — with sides so shrubby and woody ! " — the haunt of roes and numberless small birds. " They told me it was unequalled for the "chorus of 'wood-notes wild' that resounded
Seite 92 - No conversation fatigues so soon as that which is made up of points and epigrams; and the accomplished rhetorician, who could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope, must have been a most intolerable companion.
Seite 22 - I began to look about, the dresses and countenances of the people presented new matter of speculation. This is certainly a fine country to grow old in: I could not spare a look to the young people, so much was I engrossed in contemplating their grandmothers.
Seite 23 - Shall I not be proud of a father, the fon of fuch fathers, of whofe fame he is the living record ? Now, what is my cafe is every other Highlander's...
Seite 127 - My father attracted Madame Schuyler's notice by his piety, not very frequently a distinguishing feature in the military character. I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gradually acquired me the place in her favor which I ever continued to possess. She saw me reading Paradise Lost...
Seite 20 - If they want certain luxuries or conveniences, they do not look embarrafied, or difcon*erted,and make you feel awkward by paltry apologies, which you don't know how to .anfwer ; they rather difmifs any fentiment of that kind by a kind of playful raillery, for which they feem to have a. talent. Our vifit, if not apleafant, was at leaft a merry one.
Seite 115 - ... which is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be entreated, Jama iii.
Seite 23 - Now here is the refult : people who are for ever confecrating the memory of the departed, and hold the virtues, nay, the faults. of their anceftors, in fuch blind veneration, fee much to love and revere in their parents, that others never think of. They accumulate on thefe patriarchs all the virtues of their D 4 progenitors. progenitors, and think the united fplendour reflects a luftre on themfelves.
Seite 74 - Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade.