Journal and Letters: From France and Great-BritainN. Tuttle, printer, 1833 - 391 עמודים |
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עמוד 311 - Yet, though I was delighted at the time, I cannot now recall many of his expressions, or even his ideas. Who that should hear twenty pages of Coleridge's metaphysics, could tell afterwards what it was; and yet who, but would feel that it was passing strange, and very grand. You look intensely for his ideas, as you look through the dark rolling cloud for the outline of the distant mountain.
עמוד 312 - ... Coleridge's metaphysics, could tell afterwards what it was; and yet who, but would feel that it was passing strange, and very grand. You look intensely for his ideas, as you look through the dark rolling cloud for the outline of the distant mountain. Sometimes you think you have caught it, but then comes another cloud, — and the view was too evanescent to admit of your making a sketch. Yet the clouds themselves are beautiful, and while they make the object behind it indistinct, they increase...
עמוד 62 - I shall not take you to examine those statues. If your mothers were here, I would leave you sitting on these shaded benches and conduct them through the walks, and they would return, and bid you depart for our own America; where the eye of modesty is not publicly affronted; and where virgin delicacy can walk abroad without a blush.
עמוד 311 - American lady, and an admirer of his works. After a little time he appeared. He has all the poet in his large dark eye, and intellectual face; and his manners seemed to me, such as suited his portly and dignified person. I was told that if he became fairly engaged in conversation, he would need but little response. He found in me a delighted auditor, and he was on subjects that interested him. The other ladies, (Mrs. B — being an acquaintance of his hostess,) left us, — returned — and left...
עמוד 312 - ... object behind it indistinct, they increase its apparent grandeur. The subject of his conversation was nature, intellectual and material — the animals and vegetables — the heavens, and man with his noble faculties, looking with faith to his God and Redeemer, — and last of all — the angelic figure that took the loveliest light of the picture, was Heaven's best gift — beautiful, refined, intellectual, woman. How divinely good ought we to become, to deserve all that the poets say of us!...
עמוד 307 - Never did I meet a man with a smoother face, or a smoother tongue. I saw my situation, and determined to avoid if possible, controversial matters, and supposed that for an evening I might — but no ; — Mr. Owen, confident in his powers — disposed to exert them to the utmost, and backed by his followers, must needs make a proselyte. I endeavored to evade, but to no purpose, till at last, roused to an energy that seemed more than my own, I turned and encountered the whole.
עמוד 311 - ... a garden, from the first floor. Mr. Coleridge, we were told, was ill. His pension I knew had been withdrawn, since the change in the ministry, and we supposed it probable that he might be out of spirits. Mrs. B — , in sending our names to the poet, said that I was an American lady, and an admirer of his works. After a little time he appeared. He has all the poet in his large dark eye, and intellectual face; and his manners seemed to me, such as suited his portly and dignified person.
עמוד 164 - We may make many valuable improvements from the instruction of French women in regard to dress, which after all, is no unimportant affair to a woman. They certainly observe economy in some things, beyond the women of our country. Their nice things are not put on in the morning, or worn in patrolling the streets. They regard a grande toilette in the morning, as decidedly vulgar ; at the same time I must exonerate them from the charge, as far as 1 have had opportunity to observe, of wanting neatness.
עמוד 83 - The form of the new exchange is a parallelogram of two hundred and twelve feet by one hundred and twentysix. It is surrounded by a peristyle of sixty-six Corinthian columns, supporting an entablature and an attic, and forming a covered gallery, which is approached by a flight of steps, extending the whole width of the western front. This gallery is adorned with bas-reliefs, the subjects of which relate to commerce...
עמוד 89 - I looked at him, and met his eye. There was precisely the same expression as I marked, when we sung to him in Troy ; and again I shared the sublime emotions of his soul, and again they overpowered my own. My lips quivered, and irrepressible tears started to my eyes. When the song was over, the actor came and opened the door of the box, and in his enthusiasm embraced him. " You sung charmingly,