Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain: During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1G. Ramsay, 1815 - Great Britain |
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Page 136 - Here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand,—Oh! Oh! Oh!" Such scenes as these, of which there are many in this play, afford the greatest scope to the talent of the actor. Mrs Siddons and Mr Kemble did them full justice; restoring to the conceptions of the poet what the insufficiency of
Page 136 - discourse, incoherent, interrupted, indicates the agitation of a tortured mind. " Out, damned spot! out, I say !—one; two; why then 'tis time to do't;—Hell is murky!—Fie my Lord, fie ! a soldier, and afear'd ? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account ?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him
Page 353 - foot. What an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor has a long foot; another a short foot; a third an indifferent foot: 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience
Page 117 - clamour for liberty, of which no man felt the want, and with care for the constitution, which was not in danger."—I fancy much the same might be said of the present period. The threatening storms of faction hovering incessantly over the British horizon ; -the exaggeration of
Page 82 - dictated as they are by the most servile adulation. Tous ces crimes d'etat qu'on fait pour la couronne, Le ciel nous en absout alors qu'il nous la donne.
Page 368 - of Priestley, of Darwin, or of Tooke, I feel as if I were examining the sorry mechanism that gives motion to a puppet. If, for a moment, I am carried along, by their theories of human knowledge, and of human life, I seem to myself to be admitted behind the curtain of what I once conceived to be
Page 222 - also to raise, weekly or otherwise, by taxation of every inhabitant, and every occupier of lands in the said parish, (in such competent sums as they shall think
Page 27 - of rapidity—a universal hubbub; a sort of uniform grinding and shaking, like that experienced in a great mill with fifty pair of stones; and, if I was not afraid of appearing to exaggerate, I should say that it came upon the ear like the fall of Niagara, heard at two miles distance! This crisis continues
Page 206 - sobriety more than compensate for the difficulties they have to struggle with here. The women we see are certainly better looking than nearer London. The language of the inhabitants is quite unintelligible to us; at the inns, however, all is transacted in English. Having gone to see some ruins while the horses were changing
Page 272 - cwt. or two tons, and drawing on a level road at the rate of four miles an hour, makes use of the same force as if his traces, instead of being fastened to a cart, passed over a pulley, and lifted perpendicularly a weight of