The Great English Letter Writers, 第 1 巻William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908 |
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asked beautiful believe Benjamin Robert Haydon bless brother called Charles Dickens Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë comfort daughter DEAR death dream Edward FitzGerald English epistles eyes fancy father feel French genius give hand happy hath heart heaven Hobhouse honour hope Horace Walpole hour human imagination Jane Welsh Carlyle John Keats kind knew lady leave letter letter-writing literary live London look Lord Matthews Messrs mind Miss morning mother never night noble Oliver Goldsmith once pain passion perhaps pleasure poems poor pray remember Robert Louis Stevenson S. T. Coleridge seemed Shakespeare Shelley sleep soul speak spirit Stevenson suppose sure talk tell Thackeray thank things Thomas Carlyle thought thousand tion to-day told truth whole William Makepeace Thackeray wish woman words write written
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198 ページ - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
208 ページ - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
198 ページ - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
13 ページ - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
188 ページ - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
197 ページ - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
271 ページ - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
188 ページ - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
178 ページ - I look upon you as a man called by sorrow and anguish and a strange desolation of hopes into quietness, and a soul set apart and made peculiar to God...
206 ページ - This he said to us. Indeed it was admirable. A little after, he said, One thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, What that was ? He told me it was, That God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of His enemies.