Historic Houses in Bath, and Their Associations, Količina 1Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1883 - 158 strani |
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Stran 97 - I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preachers : their doctrines are .most repulsive, and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors, in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and do away with all distinctions. It is monstrous to be told, that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth.
Stran 90 - Without entering into a detail of what passed at this last interview, the impression of it upon my mind was, that his regret at losing life was principally the regret of leaving his art; and more especially, as he now began, he said, to see what his deficiencies were ; which, he said, he flattered himself in his last works were in some measure supplied.
Stran 155 - She is large and ill-shaped ; there is nothing white but her face, and, had it not been for that, she would have looked like a bale of bombazeen. There was a great deal of ceremony, a great deal of splendour, and a great deal of nonsense ; they adjourned upon the most foolish pretences imaginable, and did nothing with such an air of business as was truly ridiculous. I forgot to tell you the Duchess was taken ill, but performed it badly.
Stran 68 - He had genius, strong passions, quick sensibility, and vehement enthusiasm for the grand and the beautiful. There was something about him which ennobled tergiversation itself. He often went wrong, very wrong. But, to quote the language of Wordsworth, "He still retained, 'Mid such abasement what he had received From nature, an intense and glowing mind.
Stran 155 - You will imagine the bustle of five thousand people getting into one hall ! yet in all this hurry, we walked in tranquilly. When they were all seated, and the king-at-arms had commanded silence on pain of imprisonment (which, however, was very ill observed) , the gentleman of the black rod was commanded to bring in his prisoner.
Stran 28 - ... on a sofa. After a few minutes, " as he was then perfectly known to them both, they " inquired of him the Bath news of the day ; and imagining " there was some mistake, endeavoured by easy and cheerful " conversation to prevent his being too much embarrassed, " till, breakfast being served up, they invited him to stay and
Stran 102 - Scarlet armed chairs to all three. On either hand, a balcony for elect ladies. The rest of the congregation sit on forms. Behind the pit, in a dark niche, is...
Stran 56 - ... under the importunity, though he had given a solemn promise to his brother, Lord Hardwicke and Lord Rockingham, that he would not yield. He betrayed, however, none of the rapaciousness of the times, nor exacted but one condition, the grant of which fixed his irresolution. The Chancellor must of necessity be a peer, or cannot sit in the House of Lords.
Stran 54 - After Wolfe's appointment, and on the day preceding his embarkation for America, Pitt, desirous of giving his last verbal instructions, invited him to dinner, Lord Temple being the only other guest. — As the evening advanced, Wolfe — heated, perhaps, by his owii aspiring thoughts, and the unwonted society of statesmen, — broke forth into a strain of gasconade and bravado.
Stran 33 - The unusual form of the house, filled with such groups .of crowded spectators, themselves forming an extraordinary spectacle to the eye which has never witnessed it before, yet all intent upon that wide and mystic curtain whose dusky undulations permit us now and then to discern the momentary glitter of some...