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Bond, the Assistant Keeper of his Department, they were both "struck with the very suspicious character of the writing," certainly the work of one hand, but presenting varieties of forms assignable to different periods, the evident painting of the letters, and the artificial look of the ink. Mr. Hardy speaks more explicitly to the same purpose; and we must quote him at some length. He says,
She was momentarily at a loss, but soon recovered. "But if you admit there are evil spirits " "But I don't. I said that merely to show you that a sceptic can quote Scripture to his purpose. There is no place in my philosophy for the supernatural." "That is what we believe," she eagerly responded.
Can you quote any passages from his poetry which show, the influence of Wordsworth? What are the characters in "The Ancient Mariner"? In what respect is this poem romantic? Give your own reasons for its popularity. Does the thought or the style of this poem impress you? If you have read any of the Lectures on Shakespeare, explain why Coleridge's work is called romantic criticism. Scott.
In my youth, my portion was the cloister;* in my later years I am banished to the porch! You have no conception, Monsieur Devereux, what wise faces and profound maxims we have here, especially as all who come to visit my lord think it necessary to quote Tully, and talk of solitude as if it were a heaven!
This is so well expressed in a letter I have recently received from a friend, now in New Zealand, and certainly not intended by him for publication, that I shall venture to quote the passage, but should say that I do so without his knowledge or permission which I should not be able to receive before this book must be completed.
I quote it because it relates to a third offer of marriage which she had, and because I find that some are apt to imagine, from the extraordinary power with which she represented the passion of love in her novels, that she herself was easily susceptible of it. "Could I ever feel enough for , to accept of him as a husband?
In the tenth verse of Curzon's poem, allusion is made to Lady Pembroke's conversation, which though not consciously pretentious, provoked considerable merriment. She "stumbled upwards into vacuity," to quote my dear friend Sir Walter Raleigh. There is no one left to-day at all like George Pembroke.
Nor was his courtier-like calculation one of these rash speculations which promise splendid results on paper, and are ruinous in effect. He was to quote the wittiest and most successful of our diplomates one of the faithful five hundred who shared the exile of the Court at Ghent, and one of the fifty thousand who returned with it.
You luxuriate in the contemplation of nature Price in quoting, or trying to quote, Shakespeare Billy Pitts in his dictionary I in my snuff-box; and surely we may all continue to enjoy our harmless propensities, without interfering with each other: although I must say, that those still-born quotations of our messmate Price are most tryingly annoying."
At length, on the 1st of July, in a crowded house, composed of fourteen bishops, eighteen abbots, and thirty-nine lay peers, a bill was read a first time of such importance that I must quote at length its own most noticeable words. The preamble commenced with reciting those provisions of the late acts which were no longer to remain in force.
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