Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper, 1852 - 558 страница |
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... nature , I learned to read at a very early age . Before I was three years old my father would perch me on the breakfast - table to exhibit my one accom- plishment to some admiring guest , who admired all the more , because , a small ...
... nature , I learned to read at a very early age . Before I was three years old my father would perch me on the breakfast - table to exhibit my one accom- plishment to some admiring guest , who admired all the more , because , a small ...
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... nature of decay ; Tell friendship of unkindness ; Tell justice of delay : And if they dare reply , Then give them all the lie . Tell arts they have no soundness , But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness , And stand ...
... nature of decay ; Tell friendship of unkindness ; Tell justice of delay : And if they dare reply , Then give them all the lie . Tell arts they have no soundness , But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness , And stand ...
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... nature , untiring industry , and very varied learning . At that period he blazed forth at once as a powerful and brilliant political writer , produced an eloquent and admirable " Life of Curran , " became one of the founders of the ...
... nature , untiring industry , and very varied learning . At that period he blazed forth at once as a powerful and brilliant political writer , produced an eloquent and admirable " Life of Curran , " became one of the founders of the ...
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... nature and to the production of poetry , but by no means so well calculated to make a volume of poems extensively known . Hence it is that the elegant and graphic description of Thames scenery which I subjoin , although it has been ...
... nature and to the production of poetry , but by no means so well calculated to make a volume of poems extensively known . Hence it is that the elegant and graphic description of Thames scenery which I subjoin , although it has been ...
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... nature to the same folly , I believe I should bind him from it by the strictest conjurations of a paternal blessing . For what can be more ridiculous than to labor to give men delight , while they labor on their part more earnestly to ...
... nature to the same folly , I believe I should bind him from it by the strictest conjurations of a paternal blessing . For what can be more ridiculous than to labor to give men delight , while they labor on their part more earnestly to ...
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admirable ballads beauty Ben Jonson bird Bonny Dundee Bradshaigh bright brother called charming dear death delight doth EACUS English EURIPIDES eyes fair father fear feeling flowers Gelert gentlemen Gerald Griffin give Goodere grace hand happy hath hear heard heart Hepzibah honor horse Joanna Baillie John Banim John Clare kind King Klopstock knew Kyng lady laughed letters light live look Lord Mahony maid mignonette Molière morning murder never night noble o'er once Pan is dead passed person pleasure poems poet poetry poor praise round SACK OF BALTIMORE scene seemed sing smile Soggarth aroon song spirit story sweet tears tell thee There's thing thou thought took trees Twas Ufton Court verse walk wild Winthrop Mackworth Praed wirra-sthru wonder words write wyfe XANTHIAS young youth
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Страница 548 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Страница 547 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Страница 320 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Страница 431 - Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other? Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home she had none.
Страница 428 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Страница 396 - Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God!
Страница 320 - Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Страница 319 - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Страница 397 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows , simple wiles , Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Страница 317 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.