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49 페이지 - We walked in the evening in Greenwich park. He asked me, I suppose, by way of trying my disposition, " Is not this very fine?" Having no exquisite relish of the beauties of nature, and being more delighted with " the busy hum of men," I answered " Yes, sir ; but not equal to Fleet-street." JOHNSON. "You are right, sir.
216 페이지 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie; Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
134 페이지 - They will remember the peculiar character which belonged to that circle, in which every talent and accomplishment, every art and science, had its place. They will remember how the last debate was discussed in one corner, and the last comedy of Scribe in another; while Wilkie gazed with modest admiration on...
49 페이지 - The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say. there is more learning and science within the circumference often miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
134 페이지 - ... its place. They will remember how the last debate was discussed in one corner, and the last comedy of Scribe in another ; while Wilkie gazed with modest admiration on Reynolds...
216 페이지 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
154 페이지 - Th' adjacent parts: in all the fabric You shall not see one stone nor a brick, But all of wood, by pow'rful spell Of magic made impregnable : There 's neither iron-bai nor gate, Portcullis, chain nor bolt, nor grate, And yet men durance there abide, In dungeon scarce three inches wide ; With roof so low, that under it They never stand, but lie or sit...
164 페이지 - Let us therefore be thankful for health and a competence, and above all, for a quiet conscience. Let me tell you, scholar, that Diogenes walked on a day, with his friend, to see a country fair; where he saw ribbons and looking-glasses, and nut-crackers, and fiddles, and hobby-horses, and many other gimcracks: and having observed them, and all the other finnimbruns that make a complete country fair, he said to his friend, " Lord, how many things are there in this world of which Diogenes hath no need!
49 페이지 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."— I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people.
58 페이지 - I was no longer excited by the ambition of distinction ; what I regarded most tenderly was in the grave ; and, to take a metaphor derived from the change produced by time in the juice of the grape, my cup of life was no longer sparkling, sweet, and effervescent ; it had lost its sweetness without losing its power, and it had become bitter.