'Christopher North, ': A Memoir of John Wilson, Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of EdinburghW.J. Widdleton, 1872 - 484 pàgines |
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Pàgina 240 - The orthodox high-church sound of the Mitre, — the figure and manner of the celebrated Samuel Johnson, — the extraordinary power and precision of his conversation, and the pride arising from finding myself admitted as his companion, produced a variety of sensations, and a pleasing elevation of mind beyond what I had ever before experienced.
Pàgina 330 - If it had been my ain maister that was wanting his dinner, he would ha' ordered a hale tablefu' wi* little mair than a waff o' his haun, and here's a' this claver aboot a bit mutton nae bigger than a prin. Mr. De Quinshey would mak' a gran' preacher, though I'm thinking a hantle o' the folk wouldna ken what he was driving at.
Pàgina 84 - Sandal (the first of them within about 400 feet of the highest mountains in Great Britain) — was then occupied by Mr Coleridge as a study. On this particular day, the sun having only just set, it naturally happened that Mr Coleridge — whose nightly vigils were long — had not yet come down to breakfast; meantime, and until the epoch of the Coleridgian breakfast should arrive, his study was lawfully disposable to profaner uses.
Pàgina 85 - ... spoke of him as nothing extraordinary. Still greater division of voices I have heard on his pretensions to be thought handsome. In my opinion, and most certainly in his own, these pretensions were but slender. His complexion was too florid ; hair of a hue quite unsuited to that complexion ; eyes not good, having no apparent depth, but seeming mere surfaces ; and in fine, no one feature that could be called fine, except the lower region of his face, mouth, chin, and the parts adjacent, which were...
Pàgina 93 - The young stranger did the service required of him ; the villain was turned and fled southwards; the hunters, lance in rest, rushed after him ; all bowed their thanks as they fled past ; the fleet cavalcade again took the high road ; they doubled the cape which shut them out of sight ; and in a moment all had disappeared and left the quiet valley to its original silence, whilst the young stranger and two grave Westmoreland statesmen (who by this time had come into sight upon some accident or other)...
Pàgina 278 - ... with all its horrible degradations, is more than I am able to bear. At this moment I have not a place to hide my head in. Something I meditate, — I know not what, — ' Itaque e conspectu omnium abiit.' With a good publisher, and leisure to premeditate what I write, I might yet liberate myself, after which, having paid everybody, I would slink into some dark corner — educate my children — and show my face in the world no more.
Pàgina 329 - I remember his coming to Gloucester Place one stormy night. He remained hour after hour, in vain expectation that the waters would assuage and the hurly-burly cease. There was nothing for it but that our visitor should remain all night. The Professor ordered a room to be prepared for him, and they found each other such good company that this accidental detention was prolonged, without further difficulty, for the greater part of a year. During this visit some of his eccentricities did not escape observation....
Pàgina 85 - Elleray, delivered, as the formula of introduction, in the deep tones of Mr. Wordsworth, at once banished the momentary surprise I felt on finding an unknown stranger where I had expected nobody, and substituted a surprise of another kind. I now well understood who it was that I saw; and there was no wonder in his being at Allan...
Pàgina 329 - His tastes were very simple, though a little troublesome, at least to the servant who prepared his repast. Coffee, boiled rice and milk, and a piece of mutton from the loin, were the materials that invariably formed his diet. The cook, who had an audience with him daily, received her instructions in silent awe, quite overpowered by his manner, for had he been addressing a duchess he could scarcely have spoken with more deference. He would couch his request in such terms as these : ' Owing to dyspepsia...
Pàgina 330 - An ounce of laudanum per diem prostrated animal life in the early part . of the day. It was no unfrequent sight to find him in his room, lying upon the rug in front of the fire, his head resting upon a book, with his arms crossed over his breast, plunged in profound slumber.