The Selected Writings of John RamsayJ.R. Smith, 1871 - Počet stran: 353 |
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Strana xv
... became acquainted with the celebrated Hawkesworth , and used to amuse young Ramsay's childhood with anecdotes of him and other distinguished persons of the day , to whose society she had been introduced . This excellent lady delighted ...
... became acquainted with the celebrated Hawkesworth , and used to amuse young Ramsay's childhood with anecdotes of him and other distinguished persons of the day , to whose society she had been introduced . This excellent lady delighted ...
Strana xvii
... became very fond . Mr. Alexander Leith Ross and Mr. Ramsay conceived about this time a great mutual friendship . Mr. Ross advised him to try his luck again at the competition , and took considerable pains with him , prescribing his ...
... became very fond . Mr. Alexander Leith Ross and Mr. Ramsay conceived about this time a great mutual friendship . Mr. Ross advised him to try his luck again at the competition , and took considerable pains with him , prescribing his ...
Strana xviii
... became greatly attached . He had begun to study astronomy by himself , and copied out a short system from a book which had been lent to him by a class - fellow . He drew the figures with a fork for want of a compass , and was reckoned ...
... became greatly attached . He had begun to study astronomy by himself , and copied out a short system from a book which had been lent to him by a class - fellow . He drew the figures with a fork for want of a compass , and was reckoned ...
Strana xx
... became tutor in the family of one gentleman after another , till the late Mr. Joseph Hume , noting the capacity of the man , engaged him as his private secretary . Private secretary to Mr. Hume was not an office much in a poet's way ...
... became tutor in the family of one gentleman after another , till the late Mr. Joseph Hume , noting the capacity of the man , engaged him as his private secretary . Private secretary to Mr. Hume was not an office much in a poet's way ...
Strana xxii
... became one of the teachers in Robert Gordon's Hospital , Aber- deen . In 1827 we find him contributing some mathematical questions to The Ladies ' Diary . It is amusing to glance over those neatly printed Ladies ' Diaries , in which the ...
... became one of the teachers in Robert Gordon's Hospital , Aber- deen . In 1827 we find him contributing some mathematical questions to The Ladies ' Diary . It is amusing to glance over those neatly printed Ladies ' Diaries , in which the ...
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Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.