Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 4A. Constable, 1811 - 432 pages |
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Page 54 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Page 136 - I love to rise ere gleams the tardy light, Winter's pale dawn ; and as warm fires illume, And cheerful tapers shine around the room, Through misty windows bend my musing sight Where, round the dusky lawn, the mansions white, With shutters closed, peer faintly through the gloom, That slow recedes; while yon gray spires assume, Rising from their dark pile, an added height By indistinctness given.
Page 90 - Ah me ! what hand can touch the strings so fine ? Who up the lofty diapason roll Such sweet, such sad, such solemn airs divine, Then let them down again into the soul...
Page 129 - Or where the Northern Ocean., in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Page 191 - Is there any room at your head, Willie? Or any room at your feet? Or any room at your side, Willie, Wherein that I may creep?
Page 90 - This saloon of the Minervas contains the finest editions, superbly bound, of the best authors, in prose and verse, which the English, Italian and French languages boast, contained in neat wire cases : over them the portraits, in miniature, and some in larger ovals, of the...
Page 89 - After dinner, our whole party returned to drink tea and coffee in that retreat, which breathes all the witchery of genius, taste, and sentiment. You remember Mr. Hayley's poetic compliment to the sweet miniature painter, Miers : " His magic pencil, in its narrow space, Pours the full portion of uninjur'd grace.
Page 33 - Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters...
Page 136 - With shutters clos'd, peer faintly through the gloom, That slow recedes ; while yon grey spires assume, Rising from their dark pile, an added height By indistinctness given. Then to decree The grateful thoughts to God, ere they unfold To friendship or the Muse, or seek with glee Wisdom's rich page ! O hours more worth than gold, By whose blest use we lengthen life, and free From drear decays of age, outlive the old!
Page 77 - Every thing is marked at a settled price. Our time, our labour, our ingenuity, is so much ready money which we are to lay out to the best advantage. Examine, compare, choose, reject; but stand to your own judgment ; and do not, like children, when you have purchased one thing, repine that you do not possess another which you did not purchase.