Biographical memoirsCadell and Company, 1827 |
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... objects of her ambition , and no time was lost in their attainment ; for her little charge was attended by an eminent dancing- master , when such a mere infant , that she was taught her first steps on a dining - table . She never ...
... objects of her ambition , and no time was lost in their attainment ; for her little charge was attended by an eminent dancing- master , when such a mere infant , that she was taught her first steps on a dining - table . She never ...
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... objects to engage her attention , and the late hours incident to a life of dissipation , her studies ( if they could be so called ) were not prosecuted with any degree of diligence or success . As if foreseeing how short would be the ...
... objects to engage her attention , and the late hours incident to a life of dissipation , her studies ( if they could be so called ) were not prosecuted with any degree of diligence or success . As if foreseeing how short would be the ...
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... object of her dearest affections , and who , having hitherto been indulged in every wish , and even every caprice , was ill pre- pared to submit to the control of a mother - in - law . Without reflecting that the evil she anticipated ...
... object of her dearest affections , and who , having hitherto been indulged in every wish , and even every caprice , was ill pre- pared to submit to the control of a mother - in - law . Without reflecting that the evil she anticipated ...
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... object of his curiosity . If any of her friends or acquaintance happened to call on her , he would examine them with a suspicious cu- riosity , which usually compelled them to shorten their visits , and took from them the desire of re ...
... object of his curiosity . If any of her friends or acquaintance happened to call on her , he would examine them with a suspicious cu- riosity , which usually compelled them to shorten their visits , and took from them the desire of re ...
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... object proposed . She had little or no society , and her mind languished for want of con- genial conversation , and her natural vivacity seem- ed extinguished by the monotony of her life . Her father - in - law was in the habit of ...
... object proposed . She had little or no society , and her mind languished for want of con- genial conversation , and her natural vivacity seem- ed extinguished by the monotony of her life . Her father - in - law was in the habit of ...
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acquaintance admiration affection afterwards amusement ANNA SEWARD appearance character Childe Harold circumstances death distinguished Dr Leyden Duke of Buccleuch Duke of York duty Earl Edinburgh Elizabeth England English expressed father favour favourite feelings Foe's fortune friends gave genius happiness Henry honour interest John Leyden King King's Knight Banneret labour lady land language late letter literary lived Lord Byron Lord Minto Lord Somerville Lord Somerville's Majesty manner melancholy Memoir ment merit mind Miss Seward nature never occasion opinion party passion peculiar perhaps person poem poet poetical poetry possessed published Queen quoth racter rank rendered residence Richard Sadler Robinson Crusoe Roxburghshire Royal Highness says Mrs Bargrave says Mrs Veal scene Scotland Scots Scottish seems Sir Ralph Sadler Smith society sovereign spirit story talents taste thought tion took Veal verses young youth
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Seite 256 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Seite 356 - I saw him again yesterday, and was surprised to find the levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This Sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news; he walks about, and speaks to everybody. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity, and reads his answers to addresses well...
Seite 256 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Seite 428 - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
Seite 408 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The boy was sprung to manhood : in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams ; he was girt With strange and dusky aspects ; he was not Himself like what he had been : on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer ! There was a mass of many image?
Seite 323 - ... her own mouth. I should have told you before that Mrs. Veal told Mrs. Bargrave that her sister and brother-in-law were just come down from London to see her. Says Mrs. Bargrave, "How came you to order matters so strangely?" "It could not be helped,
Seite 426 - Or friends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Seite 323 - This Mrs. Watson blazed all about the town, and avouched the demonstration of the truth of Mrs. Bargrave's seeing Mrs. Veal's apparition; and Captain Watson carried two gentlemen immediately to Mrs. Bargrave's house to hear the relation from her own mouth. And...
Seite 323 - A servant in a neighbour's yard adjoining to Mrs. Bargrave's house heard her talking to somebody an hour of the time Mrs. Veal was with her. Mrs. Bargrave went out to her next neighbour's the very moment she parted with Mrs.
Seite 322 - Watson's before she went whither she was .going. Then she said she would take her leave of her; and walked from Mrs. Bargrave in her view, till a turning interrupted the sight of her, which was three quarters after one in the afternoon. Mrs. Veal died the 7th of September, at twelve o'clock at noon, of her fits, and had not above four hours' senses before her death, in which time she received the sacrament.