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Page 89
... lived chiefly at their con- vent in his native village Morosaglia ; passed many hours together in devotional exercises , and indulged in long retreats from the world . But all his devotion did not hinder him from becoming , in battle ...
... lived chiefly at their con- vent in his native village Morosaglia ; passed many hours together in devotional exercises , and indulged in long retreats from the world . But all his devotion did not hinder him from becoming , in battle ...
Page 110
... lived for twenty years a forgotten monk under the Franciscan cowl . Their principal followers were either driven into exile , or into temporary retreat . Among the latter was Carlo Buonaparte . He and his beautiful Letitia escaped from ...
... lived for twenty years a forgotten monk under the Franciscan cowl . Their principal followers were either driven into exile , or into temporary retreat . Among the latter was Carlo Buonaparte . He and his beautiful Letitia escaped from ...
Page 112
... lived on friendly intercourse with the best literary society of the day ; with Johnson , Goldsmith , Reynolds , and Burke , but not ( it is necessary to caution Herr Klose's readers ) with the poet Dryden , as that biographer supposes ...
... lived on friendly intercourse with the best literary society of the day ; with Johnson , Goldsmith , Reynolds , and Burke , but not ( it is necessary to caution Herr Klose's readers ) with the poet Dryden , as that biographer supposes ...
Page 126
... lived to see his brother's return , and to rejoin him ; and now lay interred in his own convent of Morosaglia . An aged sister was left ; she was summoned before the authorities at Bastia . She refused to go : If the French would depute ...
... lived to see his brother's return , and to rejoin him ; and now lay interred in his own convent of Morosaglia . An aged sister was left ; she was summoned before the authorities at Bastia . She refused to go : If the French would depute ...
Page 170
... lived tended to keep alive these juvenile feelings , which are so soon stifled among the bustle of more active society . He felt and wrote like a schoolboy when , at the age of seven - and - thirty , his long- cherished hope of seeing ...
... lived tended to keep alive these juvenile feelings , which are so soon stifled among the bustle of more active society . He felt and wrote like a schoolboy when , at the age of seven - and - thirty , his long- cherished hope of seeing ...
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Page 100 - The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Page 188 - And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios ! must I part with the intense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces ? Must knowledge come to me, if it come at all, by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading ? Shall I enjoy friendships there wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, — the recognisable face the "sweet assurance of a look?