Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of James Currie ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 |
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acquaintance Adieu admits affection affectionate America appear attention believe Captain character circumstances conduct consider conversation correspondence danger dear boy DEAR FRIEND DEAR GRAHAM DEAR SIR DEAR WALLACE degree doubt Dugald Stewart Edinburgh England Europe exertions expect expression father favour fear feel fellow folly France French French Revolution give gout habits hand happy hear heart honour hope human increase indulge influence interesting Ireland JAMES CURRIE Jane Shore Jasper Wilson judgment kind La Balia letter Liverpool Lochrutton Lord mean ment mind nation nature never obliged observations occasion opinion particular passion peace perhaps persons Pitt pleasure politics politics of Canada present principles racter received respect Revolution Scotland seems sent sentiments society Spanish empire speak spirit Springkell Stewart suppose talents thing thought tion truth tural whole wish write young
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352 ページ - twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
352 ページ - I saw Othello's visage in his mind, And to his honours and his valiant parts Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, A moth of peace, and he go to the war...
395 ページ - What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us? All those things are passed away like a shadow...
353 ページ - twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
231 ページ - The consc quence of this rendered it necessary to confine him ; and about two years afterwards he was removed by his friends from the situation in which he was originally fixed, and placed under my care. At the time of which I speak he was become perfectly calm ; he was on general subjects rational, and on every subject acute, but the original hallucinations were as fixed as ever. In occasional discussions of his visionary projects, I had urged, of my own suggestion, the objection that when men became...
43 ページ - Abolition,' which puts the subject in a very clear point of view, and contains a brief, but masterly, chain of propositions that bear irresistible force. I recommend it to your perusal. The moderation of its language is likely to make it useful. Mde. Necker, whose zeal for liberty led her to interest herself in the sufferings of the Africans, appears to have entertained the idea of translating this work into French. ' On the subject of the Slave Trade,
327 ページ - In the darkness of the night, and amid the pauses of the hurricane, his voice, heard at intervals, was exquisitely mournful. No one could go to his assistance — -no one knew where he was — the sound seemed to proceed from the spirit of the waters. But morning rose — the tide had ebbed — and the poor traveller was found lashed to the pole of the net, and bleaching in the wind.
327 ページ - SIGH NOT, YE WINDS, AS PASSING O'ER. SlGH not, ye winds, as passing o'er The chambers of the dead ye fly ; Weep not, ye dews — for these no more Shall ever weep, shall ever sigh.
341 ページ - Dr. Currie writes to Scarlett, "is a young poet of some celebrity, Mr. Campbell, the author of 'The Pleasures of Hope.' He was introduced to me by Mr. Stewart, of Edinburgh, and has been some days in my house. I have found him, as might be expected, a young man of uncommon acquirements and learning, of unusual quickness of apprehension, and great sensibility. " He is going to London with the view of superintending an edition of his poems, for his own benefit, by the permission of the booksellers...
438 ページ - Time and industry have already, in a great degree, repaired the losses of property which the citizens sustained during the war. but both have hitherto failed in effacing the taint which was then communicated to their principles, nor can its total ablution be expected till a new generation arises, unpractised in the iniquities of their fathers.