The Selected Writings of John RamsayJ.R. Smith, 1871 - Počet stran: 353 |
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... head Gently upon her last and lowly bed . Still to her grave my pensive steps I bend , To bless my early venerable friend ! Ah ! often ' midst the tumults of the strife Of joys and sorrows in my after life , Would I bethink me of my ...
... head Gently upon her last and lowly bed . Still to her grave my pensive steps I bend , To bless my early venerable friend ! Ah ! often ' midst the tumults of the strife Of joys and sorrows in my after life , Would I bethink me of my ...
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... head . If , in any respects , he is deficient , it is , as already remarked , in precision and strength ; a circumstance which renders his style more suitable to such works as the Spectator , than to those which require a higher and ...
... head . If , in any respects , he is deficient , it is , as already remarked , in precision and strength ; a circumstance which renders his style more suitable to such works as the Spectator , than to those which require a higher and ...
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... head . " We do not think that the sentiments here expressed are in strict accordance with good taste and suitable feeling . The occa- sion on which they are made , is , we think , of too solemn and pensive a nature for such sarcastic ...
... head . " We do not think that the sentiments here expressed are in strict accordance with good taste and suitable feeling . The occa- sion on which they are made , is , we think , of too solemn and pensive a nature for such sarcastic ...
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... head , " savours too much of vulgarity . Let us compare this passage with a corresponding extract from the essay of Irving . " The epitaphs were entirely effaced , the names alone remained , having no doubt been renewed in latter times ...
... head , " savours too much of vulgarity . Let us compare this passage with a corresponding extract from the essay of Irving . " The epitaphs were entirely effaced , the names alone remained , having no doubt been renewed in latter times ...
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John Ramsay. cross , and round about goes diverse times , climbs to the head thereof , and sets on ane burning torch thereupon . I marvellit , being at sic tyme [ of the dour Covenant ] , and whereof myself had never seen the like ...
John Ramsay. cross , and round about goes diverse times , climbs to the head thereof , and sets on ane burning torch thereupon . I marvellit , being at sic tyme [ of the dour Covenant ] , and whereof myself had never seen the like ...
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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.