The Selected Writings of John RamsayJ.R. Smith, 1871 - Počet stran: 353 |
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... monument of Provost William Leyth , who presented the two great bells , Maria and Lawrence , to the Church , in expiation of his having slain Bailie Catnach at Barkmill in a quarrel . More than five centuries had passed since that ...
... monument of Provost William Leyth , who presented the two great bells , Maria and Lawrence , to the Church , in expiation of his having slain Bailie Catnach at Barkmill in a quarrel . More than five centuries had passed since that ...
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... monument to Newton than the name alone , with the simple record of his birth and death ? In such a case the name alone would convey an idea of affecting sublimity , which the most laboured epitaph could not impart . The mere inscription ...
... monument to Newton than the name alone , with the simple record of his birth and death ? In such a case the name alone would convey an idea of affecting sublimity , which the most laboured epitaph could not impart . The mere inscription ...
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... monument will cease to be a memorial . " The sentiments , and the language in which they are conveyed , of the above extract , appear to us to be far more proper than those of Addison in the extract already quoted . A little farther on ...
... monument will cease to be a memorial . " The sentiments , and the language in which they are conveyed , of the above extract , appear to us to be far more proper than those of Addison in the extract already quoted . A little farther on ...
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... monuments , and monuments which had no poets . " This is rather a summary way of discuss- ing the most interesting part of the Abbey . Let us hear Irving on this point . " I passed some time in Poets ' Corner , which occupies an end of ...
... monuments , and monuments which had no poets . " This is rather a summary way of discuss- ing the most interesting part of the Abbey . Let us hear Irving on this point . " I passed some time in Poets ' Corner , which occupies an end of ...
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... monuments of departed genius , that , after an interval of a hundred years , a kindred spirit from a foreign land might make a pilgrimage to his tomb , and thus record a tribute of veneration for his memory . In a subsequent sentence he ...
... monuments of departed genius , that , after an interval of a hundred years , a kindred spirit from a foreign land might make a pilgrimage to his tomb , and thus record a tribute of veneration for his memory . In a subsequent sentence he ...
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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.