The Selected Writings of John RamsayJ.R. Smith, 1871 - 353 sider |
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... remarkable degree ; and if occasionally it is not very precise , it is at least as much so as his subject requires . In the construction of his sen- tences he is distinguished by graceful ease and insinuating melody . He often displays ...
... remarkable degree ; and if occasionally it is not very precise , it is at least as much so as his subject requires . In the construction of his sen- tences he is distinguished by graceful ease and insinuating melody . He often displays ...
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... remarkable revolution in our literature , the beneficial effects of which have been transmitted through succeeding years , and are still conspicuous at the present day . True it is that , before his time , various writers had appeared ...
... remarkable revolution in our literature , the beneficial effects of which have been transmitted through succeeding years , and are still conspicuous at the present day . True it is that , before his time , various writers had appeared ...
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... remarkable points , both in sentiment and style , in that paper of the Spectator , from the pen of Addison , which is the proper subject of this essay . In endeavouring , however imperfectly , to execute this task , we trust we shall ...
... remarkable points , both in sentiment and style , in that paper of the Spectator , from the pen of Addison , which is the proper subject of this essay . In endeavouring , however imperfectly , to execute this task , we trust we shall ...
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... remarkable , we would beg leave to make a few remarks on the three sentences which follow : - " Most of them— i.e. the inscriptions on the tombstones - recorded nothing else of the buried person , but that he was born upon one day , and ...
... remarkable , we would beg leave to make a few remarks on the three sentences which follow : - " Most of them— i.e. the inscriptions on the tombstones - recorded nothing else of the buried person , but that he was born upon one day , and ...
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... remarkable than their being rather out of place and certainly not very complimentary to English taste - and , perhaps , not very just . The four following sentences , though sufficiently com- mon - place in point of sentiment and ...
... remarkable than their being rather out of place and certainly not very complimentary to English taste - and , perhaps , not very just . The four following sentences , though sufficiently com- mon - place in point of sentiment and ...
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Side 13 - ... or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh mouldering earth that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body. Upon this I began to consider with myself what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral: how men and women, friends...
Side 10 - ... the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.
Side 10 - I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind.
Side 15 - ... heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellowmen is ever new, active, and immediate.
Side 172 - I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Side 254 - The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw ; To pitch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat ; The pleasing spectacle at once excites Such recollection of our own delights That, viewing it, we seem almost to' obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again.
Side 9 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; "where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition oT the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Side 50 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Side 14 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs that, if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth.
Side 10 - ON one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the latter part of autumn when the shadows of morning and evening almost mingle together, and throw a gloom over the decline of the year, I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey.