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But no investigation on the spot could throw any clear light on the circumstance, and Shelley's friends, Hogg, Peacock, and Mr. Madocks, concurred in regarding the affair as a delusion. There was no money in the common purse of the Shelleys at this moment. In their distress they applied to Mr. T. Hookham, a London publisher, who sent them enough to carry them across the Irish channel.
Our unpalatial palace "Cephas Giovanni" She and George Combe turned out to be right A rousing temper Bright Titian hair "All that's left of him" The pyramidal man of destiny The thoughts of a boy are long, long thoughts Clausilia Bubigunia Jabez Hogg and the microscope A stupendous surprise A lifetime in fourteen months My father's jeremiades "Thank Heaven, there is such a thing as whitewash!"
Called up with news from Sir W. Batten that Hogg hath brought in two prizes more: and so I thither, and hear the particulars, which are good; one of them, if prize, being worth 4000l.: for which God be thanked! Then to the office, and have the news brought us of Captain Robinson's coming with his fleet from Gottenburgh: dispersed, though, by foul weather.
Pancras, to Nelson Square, where we have already seen Hogg in their company and heard of the sulks, fears, and bemoanings of poor Claire. Mary Shelley's novel of Lodore gives a good account of the sufferings of this time, as referred to later. The great resource of intellectual power is manifested during all this period.
Hereupon concluded what to write to Hogg and Middleton, which I did, and also with Mr.
We rode through the ancient royal burgh of Selkirk, halted and corned our horses at a romantic village, nigh to some deep linns on the Ettrick, and reached the market ground at Thirlestane-green a little before mid-day. We soon found Hogg, standing near the foot of the market, as he called it, beside a great drove of paulies, a species of stock that I never heard of before.
About four o'clock the boat reached Tinoset, one of the most primitive of hamlets. Still that mattered little, as Sylvius Hogg had no intention of remaining there even for an hour. As he had prophesied to Joel, a vehicle was awaiting them on the shore, for having decided upon this journey several weeks before, he had written to Mr.
Posterity has taken a more lenient view of his serious errors of conduct, while according to his genius a shining place among the immortals. There are ed. of the Poems by W.M. Rossetti , Dowden , etc. Lives by Medwin , J.A. Symonds , W.M. Rossetti, Prof. Dowden, T. Jefferson Hogg, and others. Poet, s. of Thomas S., owner of a small estate at Hales Owen, Shropshire.
Sylvius Hogg was left alone, and his thoughts very naturally reverted to the honest family whose guest and debtor he was. What could he do to repay Hulda and Joel for the inestimable service they had rendered him? He had not much time for reflection, however, for scarcely ten minutes had elapsed before he was seated in the place of honor at the family table. The dinner was excellent.
Now, although I do not hold valour to be an essential article in the composition of a man like Hogg, yet I heartily wish he could have prevailed on himself to swagger a little.... But considering his failure in the field and the Sheriff Office, I am afraid we must apply to Hogg the apology which is made for Waller by his biographer: 'Let us not condemn him with untempered severity because he was not such a prodigy as the world has seldom seen because his character included not the poet, the orator, and the hero."
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