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Page 54 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly beg your majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Page 155 - I was naturally susceptible and tried to form other attachments, but my heart would not hold on ; it would continually recur to what it had lost ; and whenever there was a pause in the hurry of novelty & excitement I would sink into dismal dejection.
Page 155 - I was by her when she died ; all the family were assembled round her, some praying, others weeping, for she was adored by them all. I was the last one she looked upon. I...
Page 158 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 155 - I saw her fade rapidly away, beautiful and more beautiful and more angelical to the very last. I was often by her bedside, and in her wandering state of mind she would talk to me with a sweet, natural, and affecting eloquence that was overpowering. I saw more of the beauty of her mind in that delirious state than I had ever known before.
Page 164 - He had the happy talent, among his many excellencies, of elevating the character, without impairing the likeness: this was remarkable in his male heads, and no woman ever lost any beauty from his hand ; nay, the fair would often become still fairer under his pencil. To this he added a grace of execution all his own.
Page 119 - Mr. Neagle asked him for a pinch of snuff from his ample box, out of which he was profusely supplying his own nostrils. " I will give it to you," said Stuart, " but I advise you not to take it. Snuff-taking is a pernicious, vile, dirty habit, and, like all bad habits, to be carefully avoided." " Your practice contradicts your precept, Mr. Stuart.
Page 114 - Paris, from Nantes. Giving orders, from the balcony of the Hotel d'York, to my English servant, I was assailed by a powerful female voice -crying out from the upper story, " Who are you ? an American I hope ! " — " Yes, madam,
Page 154 - I, in a manner, studied her excellence. Never did I meet with more intuitive rectitude of mind, more native delicacy, more exquisite propriety in word, thought, and action, than in this young creature. I am not exaggerating; what I say was acknowledged by all who knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda. For my part, I idolized her.
Page 58 - A mutual friend of Mr. Copley and my brother, Mr. James Lovell, went with us to introduce us. We found Mr. Copley dressed to receive a party of friends at dinner. I remember his dress and appearance — an elegant looking man, dressed in a fine maroon cloth, with gilt buttons — this was dazzling to my unpracticed eye ! — but his paintings, the first I had ever seen deserving the name, riveted, absorbed my attention, and renewed all my desire to enter upon such a pursuit.