Memoir of Robert Chambers, with autobiographic reminiscences of William ChambersW. & R. Chambers, 1872 - 336 pàgines |
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Pàgina 116 - All this, and more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...
Pàgina 275 - An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
Pàgina 283 - Scarce had lamented Forbes paid The tribute to his Minstrel's shade ; The tale of friendship scarce was told, Ere the narrator's heart was cold. Far may we search before we find A heart so manly and so kind.
Pàgina 328 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Pàgina 91 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Pàgina 193 - Mambrino's helmet -upon the crazed capital of Don Quixote, only a great deal more magnificent in shape and dimensions. There was, at first, much relief and much comfort in this new mode of carrying the pot; but mark the result. The unfortunate minister having taken a by-path, to escape observation, found himself, when still a good way from home, under the necessity of leaping over a ditch, which intercepted him, in passing from one field to another. He jumped; but surely no jump was ever taken so...
Pàgina 194 - Deprived of his eyesight, he acted only as a man of feeling, and went on as cautiously as he could, with his hat in his hand. Half crawling, half sliding over ridge and furrow, ditch and hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy minister travelled with all possible speed, as nearly as he could guess, in the direction of the place of refuge. I leave it to the reader to conceive the...
Pàgina 225 - I have been actuated, is to take advantage of the universal appetite for instruction which at present exists ; to supply to that appetite food of the best kind, and in such a form, and at such a price, as must suit the convenience of every man in the British dominio»!.
Pàgina 129 - ... seemed inclined to give, the smallest assistance. The consequent defying, self-relying spirit in which, at sixteen, I set out as a bookseller with only my own small collection of books as a stock — not worth more than two pounds, I believe — led to my being quickly independent of all aid ; but it has not been all a gain, for I am now sensible that my spirit of self-reliance too often manifested itself in an unsocial, unamiable light, while my recollections of "honest poverty" may have made...
Pàgina 99 - I overruled the will, and forced myself to rise at five o'clock, and have a spell at reading until it was time to think of moving off, — my brother, when he was with me, doing the same. In this way I made some progress in French, with the pronunciation of which I was already familiar from the speech of the French prisoners of war at Peebles. I likewise dipped into several books of solid worth, — such as Smith's