Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Volumes 5-6J. Hogg, 1847 - English literature |
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... Lady Carnegie , General Macaulay , Colonel Hallyburton , Henry Drum- mond , and Berkeley Noel . He likewise , at the Collegio della Propaganda , was successful in gaining , as the fruit of his literary efforts , two gold medals . Wolff ...
... Lady Carnegie , General Macaulay , Colonel Hallyburton , Henry Drum- mond , and Berkeley Noel . He likewise , at the Collegio della Propaganda , was successful in gaining , as the fruit of his literary efforts , two gold medals . Wolff ...
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... lady sat stitching at one of the hand- some French windows of a house in one of the pleasant suburban villages . It was one of those cottage - palaces , with a double coach - house , which Professor Porson naughtily stigmatises as ...
... lady sat stitching at one of the hand- some French windows of a house in one of the pleasant suburban villages . It was one of those cottage - palaces , with a double coach - house , which Professor Porson naughtily stigmatises as ...
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... Lady Olivia Sparrow , in whose drawingroom he met , for the first time , with Lady Georgiana Mary Walpole , sister to the present Horatio Walpole , Earl of Orford . The moment she caught my eye , ' says Dr Wolff , ' I said to myself ...
... Lady Olivia Sparrow , in whose drawingroom he met , for the first time , with Lady Georgiana Mary Walpole , sister to the present Horatio Walpole , Earl of Orford . The moment she caught my eye , ' says Dr Wolff , ' I said to myself ...
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... Lady Bryant , accom- panied by a supply of provisions and a hill pony , were sent to meet him . At ten o'clock at night he reached Subathoo , Where , in the house of Sir Jeremiah and Lady Bryant , he resided for several days , preaching ...
... Lady Bryant , accom- panied by a supply of provisions and a hill pony , were sent to meet him . At ten o'clock at night he reached Subathoo , Where , in the house of Sir Jeremiah and Lady Bryant , he resided for several days , preaching ...
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... ladies not a little . They said he was as white as the devil , and that some awful cala- mity must accompany the ... Lady Georgiana and the doctor suffered materially . In consequence , when an offer was made of the curacy 36 HOGG'S ...
... ladies not a little . They said he was as white as the devil , and that some awful cala- mity must accompany the ... Lady Georgiana and the doctor suffered materially . In consequence , when an offer was made of the curacy 36 HOGG'S ...
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Page 44 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Page 113 - Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 300 - In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die ; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air...
Page 167 - is given ; and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury and anew shed tears for.
Page 47 - In 1609, six years after the accession of James VI. of Scotland to the throne of England as James I.
Page 96 - I. for a license to collect alms for himself, 'as a recompense for his labour and travel of forty-five years in setting forth the Chronicles of England, and eight years taken up in the Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, towards his relief, now in Ms old age ; having left his former means of living, and only employed himself for the service and good of his country.
Page 195 - And now I say unto you ; Refrain from these men, and let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work, be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 167 - And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending: till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word "Fire!
Page 127 - It is useful in all places, and at all times ; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way into the world ; it is useful in society, for it shows him his way through the world.
Page 128 - Tact refutes without contradiction, puzzles the .profound without profundity, and without art outwits the wise. Set them together on a race for popularity, pen in hand, and Tact will distance Talent by half the course. Talent brings to market that which is wanted, Tact produces that which is wished for. Talent instructs, Tact enlightens.