Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1819 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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... LETTER XXI . 243 ..... 246 .......... 249 257 Dr B- Professor J- Singular Recognition Mr James W- n ....... Speculative Society LETTER XXII . 261 PAGE . LETTER XXIII . Cranioscopy and Craniology 281 Madonnas CONTENTS . vii.
... LETTER XXI . 243 ..... 246 .......... 249 257 Dr B- Professor J- Singular Recognition Mr James W- n ....... Speculative Society LETTER XXII . 261 PAGE . LETTER XXIII . Cranioscopy and Craniology 281 Madonnas CONTENTS . vii.
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... Oxford , yet we immediately recognized each other's old High - Street faces , and began to claim a sort of acquaintance on that score , VOL . I. E as all Oxonian contemporaries , I believe , are ac- PROFESSORS P AND L. 61.
... Oxford , yet we immediately recognized each other's old High - Street faces , and began to claim a sort of acquaintance on that score , VOL . I. E as all Oxonian contemporaries , I believe , are ac- PROFESSORS P AND L. 61.
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... professors , examinations , degrees , and all the other mighty items of academical life , you do no more than I might have expected from one , who has derived his only ideas of an uni- versity from Oxford and Cambridge . In these places ...
... professors , examinations , degrees , and all the other mighty items of academical life , you do no more than I might have expected from one , who has derived his only ideas of an uni- versity from Oxford and Cambridge . In these places ...
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... professors ; but beyond this , they have little connection of any kind with the locale of the academical buildings ; and it follows very naturally , that they feel them- selves to have comparatively a very slight con- nection with ...
... professors ; but beyond this , they have little connection of any kind with the locale of the academical buildings ; and it follows very naturally , that they feel them- selves to have comparatively a very slight con- nection with ...
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... professors of Greek and Latin , to whose care the University entrusts them ; for each of these gentlemen has to do with a class of at least two hundred pupils ; and in such a class , it would be impossible to adopt , with the least ...
... professors of Greek and Latin , to whose care the University entrusts them ; for each of these gentlemen has to do with a class of at least two hundred pupils ; and in such a class , it would be impossible to adopt , with the least ...
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Page 179 - Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Page 134 - I AM a son of Mars, Who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars Wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, And that other in a trench, When welcoming the French At the sound of the drum.
Page 141 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Page 179 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Page 134 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...
Page 110 - Muse's lyre. Not beggar's brat on bulk begot ; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot ; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews...
Page 141 - He had small need of books ; for many a tale Traditionary, round the mountains hung, And many a legend, peopling the dark woods, Nourished Imagination in her growth, And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things.
Page 115 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 234 - Though Nature could not touch his heart By lovely forms and silent weather, And tender sounds, yet you might see At once, that Peter Bell and she Had often been together. A savage wildness round him hung As of a dweller out of doors ; In his whole figure and his mien A savage character was seen, Of mountains and of dreary moors.
Page 139 - His face and hands are still as brown as if he had lived entirely sub dio. His very hair has a coarse stringiness about it, which proves beyond dispute its utter ignorance of all the arts of the friseur ; and hangs in playful whips and cords about his ears, in a style of the most perfect innocence imaginable.