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Page 57
Many of these wanderers think that they come home well acquainted with France
and Italy , if they have brought with them pictures and antiquities purchased at a
high price — and take au pied de la lettre all the stories Italian wags tell them ...
Many of these wanderers think that they come home well acquainted with France
and Italy , if they have brought with them pictures and antiquities purchased at a
high price — and take au pied de la lettre all the stories Italian wags tell them ...
Page 59
In painting , they are far below the famous schools of Italy and France . To judge
of their taste for this elegant accomplishment , one need only examine the
exposition at the Royal Academy this year -few of the paintings are excellent ,
and the ...
In painting , they are far below the famous schools of Italy and France . To judge
of their taste for this elegant accomplishment , one need only examine the
exposition at the Royal Academy this year -few of the paintings are excellent ,
and the ...
Page 83
... contemptible suborners , and the mercenary hirelings of Italy and Germany
could rake together . Horace Walpole says , in his interesting Reminiscences ,
that , “ perhaps too much difficulty of untying the Gordian knot of matrimony ,
thrown in ...
... contemptible suborners , and the mercenary hirelings of Italy and Germany
could rake together . Horace Walpole says , in his interesting Reminiscences ,
that , “ perhaps too much difficulty of untying the Gordian knot of matrimony ,
thrown in ...
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... intricate windings of thy heart , is a task reserved for Omnipotence alone !
Kotzebue says that women are housewives in Germany ; queens in England ;
ladies in * Vide Racine's Mithridate . France ; captives in Italy , and slaves in
Spain 166.
... intricate windings of thy heart , is a task reserved for Omnipotence alone !
Kotzebue says that women are housewives in Germany ; queens in England ;
ladies in * Vide Racine's Mithridate . France ; captives in Italy , and slaves in
Spain 166.
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France ; captives in Italy , and slaves in Spain . Diderot has somewhere imputed
to the British fair an apparent pride , coldness and disdain , by which they strive to
veil the barrenness of their ideas , and the humiliating consciousness of having ...
France ; captives in Italy , and slaves in Spain . Diderot has somewhere imputed
to the British fair an apparent pride , coldness and disdain , by which they strive to
veil the barrenness of their ideas , and the humiliating consciousness of having ...
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Page 53 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of Universal Emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; — no matter with what...
Page 18 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
Page 90 - ... minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro.
Page 54 - ... -,—no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.
Page 91 - Then returned the fear of catching cold; and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round, found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train, to avoid the chill of the marble.
Page 90 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand and mopping his eyes with the other.
Page 32 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 106 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 90 - There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the repose of the defunct; yet one could not complain of its not being Catholic enough.
Page 103 - With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel, and robes of country brown.
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| Title | Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818, '19 & '20, from Edinburgh, London, The Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2 Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818, '19 & '20, from Edinburgh, London, The Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland, Franklin James Didier |
| Author | Franklin James Didier |
| Publisher | J. Maxwell, 1822 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Mar 2007 |
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