A Selection from the Correspondence of Abraham Hayward, Q.C., from 1834 to 1884: With an Account of His Early Life, Band 2J. Murray, 1886 - 350 Seiten |
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Seite 47 - Bryn, and to which, on the occasion of her marriage I was told, she had recently added the name of Bella. I remember her taking me into her bed-room to show me the floor covered with folios, quartos, and octavos, for consultation, and indicating the labour she had gone through in compiling an immense volume she was then publishing, called
Seite 194 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Seite 235 - Sumner's speech. By allowing it to lie on the public mind, it sank into it and has become now a seminational theory. How, when our only inducement to make a treaty was to set this claim for indirect damages at rest, we could frame one which opened it, is to me miraculous. How they could introduce into such- a document the term ' growing out of,' which would hardly occur to any one but a market gardener, is also a marvel.
Seite 235 - He always talked his best, and always took up by preference the topics on which mind could meet mind and glowing thoughts or sparkling fancies might be struck out. He was past 68 when he died, but his vivacity was unabated, his vitality seemed unimpaired, and those who knew him best were so accustomed to see him overcoming matter by mind that they were no less startled than saddened by the announcement that the most delightful of companions, the truest and most sympathizing of friends, was taken...
Seite 323 - No more — no more — oh ! never more on me The freshness of the heart can fall like dew, Which out of all the lovely things we see Extracts emotions beautiful and new, Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee, Think'st thou the honey with those objects grew?
Seite 265 - We -^ have got into a pretty mess,' Gladstone wrote to Abraham Hayward on October 10, 1876. ' " The Times \ appears to be thoroughly emasculated. It does not pay to read a paper which next week is sure to refute what it has demonstrated this week. It ought to be prohibited to change sides more than a certain number of times in a year. ^As to the upper ten thousand ' — for whom, of course, ' The Times ' chiefly wrote — ' it has not been by the majority of that body that any of the great and good...
Seite 188 - Boccaccio," with its bevies of cavaliers and dames, in the gayest of dresses and the most picturesque of attitudes : when a table, heaped with fruit and flowers, was placed for royalty and the representatives of royalty in the open air before the refreshment-room, where a genuine Neapolitan...
Seite 19 - I regret that the relations between our two Governments are not more satisfactory ; but I beg you to assure the Emperor that they in no respect alter my feelings of friendship to himself.
Seite 47 - Piozzi, but had no habits of acquaintance with her, and she never lived in London to my knowledge. When in my youth I made a tour in Wales — times when all inns were bad, and all houses hospitable — I put up for a day at her house, I think in Denbighshire, the proper name of which was...
Seite 177 - When the book is finished, let me have a sett (sic) bound in vellum, gilt, and lettered 'Junius I. II.' as handsomely as you can. The edges gilt, let the sheets be well dried before binding. I must also have two setts in blue paper covers. This is all the fee I shall ever require of you.