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Just before he met Mathilde, Heine had written to his friend and publisher, Campe, that he was at last sick to death of the poor pleasures which had held him too long. "I believe," he writes, "that my soul is at last purified of all its dross; henceforth my verses will be the more beautiful, my books the more harmonious.
On p. 258, Mrs. Piozzi writes: 'No one was indeed so attentive not to offend in all such sort of things as Dr. Johnson; nor so careful to maintain the ceremonies of life; and though he told Mr.
Thus a Western correspondent writes: "At three different times I have pursued the common jack-rabbit from a level field, when the rabbit, coming to a furrow that ran at right angles to his course, jumped into it, and crouching down, slowly crept away to the end of the furrow, when it jumped out and ran at full speed again."
The Sons of Liberty took the first step toward forcing the consignees of the tea to resign. "Handbills are stuck up," writes John Andrews, "calling upon Friends! Citizens! and Countrymen!"
At Rochefort, zeal is maintained only "by the presence of five or six Parisian Jacobins." At Grenoble, Chepy, the political agent and president of the club, writes that "he is knocked up, worn out, and exhausted, in trying to keep up public spirit and maintain it on a level with events," but he is "conscious that, if he should leave, all would crumble."
This was the hardest part of his ministry. Where kindness and attention were needed, nothing could be more spontaneous, sweet, or winning than his ways. One of his parishioners, a farmer's daughter, writes: 'Our personal knowledge of him began some months before his Ordination, owing, I suppose, to Mr. Gardiner's severe illness; and as he was very much respected, Mr.
He writes: "It is a common thing among the privateers, besides burning with matches and such like slight torments, to cut a man in pieces, first some flesh, then a hand, an arm, a leg, sometimes tying a cord about his head and with a stick twisting it till the eyes shot out, which is called 'woolding. Before taking Puerto Bello, thus some were used, because they refused to discover a way into the town which was not, and many in the town because they would not discover wealth they knew not of.
"By what mystery," he writes to M. Scherer, "do others expect much from me? whereas I feel myself to be incapable of anything serious or important." Defiance and impuissance are the words constantly on his lips. "My friends see what I might have been; I see what I am." And yet the literary instinct remains, and must in some way be satisfied.
But those forceful lines of the billows, those sharp contours of the rock, contain everything which expresses their spirit. It is not different with the author who writes a historical novel or drama. Every man's life is crowded with the trivialities of the day.
And it looks as if he was going his own way, and didn't care much. He never writes to her now. Of course it's that woman's doing. Crewe reflected. 'I shall have to look into Mrs. Damerel's affairs. Might be worth while. Where is she living? He made a note of the information. 'Well, anything else to tell me? Beatrice spoke of business matters, then asked him if he had been out of town lately.
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