Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 213William Blackwood, 1923 |
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Page 135 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia.
Page 404 - I declined it, from an apprehension that my spirits would sink. We bade adieu to each other affectionately in the carriage. When he had got down upon the foot-pavement, he called out, " Fare you well ; " and, without looking back, sprung away with a kind of pathetic briskness, if I may use that expression, which seemed to indicate a struggle to conceal uneasiness, and impressed me with a foreboding of our long, long separation.
Page 176 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud...
Page 361 - ... siècle qui y sont couchées ; je n'étais à l'aise que dans la compagnie des morts, près de ces chevaliers, de ces nobles dames, dormant d'un sommeil calme, avec leur levrette à leurs pieds et un grand flambeau de pierre à la main. Les environs de la ville présentaient le même caractère religieux et idéal.
Page 396 - Mr. Boswell's book I was going to recommend to you, when I received your letter : it has pleased and moved me strangely, all (I mean) that relates to Paoli. He is a man born two thousand years after his time ! The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Page 404 - I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared.
Page 399 - I have however seen played on common occasions, of sitting steadily down at the other end of the room to write at the moment what should be said in company, either by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another. There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this conduct, that were it commonly adopted, all confidence would soon be exiled from society, and a conversation assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice.
Page 478 - I left the house he had gone carefully round seeing to bolts and bars, loaded a revolver, and locked the sacred tablet away in a small safe in his bedroom. Several times it was on the tip of my tongue to tell him about Peng, but still I refrained, remembering that sleek person's solemn assurance that Bergheim himself was in no danger. And so, not without misgivings, I took my departure, fully expecting that when I met him next, I should hear that his safe had been burgled and the tablet stolen ;...
Page 839 - Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the President of the Board of Trade.