Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper, 1852 - 558 oldal |
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... thing approaching in the slightest degree to autobiography . The courteous reader must take it for what it is : -an attempt to make others relish a few favorite writers as heartily as I have relished them myself . My opinions , such as ...
... thing approaching in the slightest degree to autobiography . The courteous reader must take it for what it is : -an attempt to make others relish a few favorite writers as heartily as I have relished them myself . My opinions , such as ...
2. oldal
... thing but a village . The breakfast - room , where I first possessed myself of my beloved ballads , was a lofty and spacious apartment , literally lined with books , which , with its Turkey carpet , its glowing fire , its sofas and its ...
... thing but a village . The breakfast - room , where I first possessed myself of my beloved ballads , was a lofty and spacious apartment , literally lined with books , which , with its Turkey carpet , its glowing fire , its sofas and its ...
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... thing by starts and nothing long ; But , in the course of one revolving moon , Was chemist , fiddler , statesman , and buffoon ; Then all for women , painting , rhyming , drinking , Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking ...
... thing by starts and nothing long ; But , in the course of one revolving moon , Was chemist , fiddler , statesman , and buffoon ; Then all for women , painting , rhyming , drinking , Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking ...
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... things O'er the waters glance and glow . There are spots where nestle wild flowers small With many a mingling gleam ; Where the broad flag waves , and the bulrush tall Nods still to the thrusting stream . The Forget - me - not on the ...
... things O'er the waters glance and glow . There are spots where nestle wild flowers small With many a mingling gleam ; Where the broad flag waves , and the bulrush tall Nods still to the thrusting stream . The Forget - me - not on the ...
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... thing . We are , therefore , won- derful wise men , and have a fine business of it , we who spend our time in poetry ... thing of disparagement , and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him . There is no danger from me of ...
... thing . We are , therefore , won- derful wise men , and have a fine business of it , we who spend our time in poetry ... thing of disparagement , and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him . There is no danger from me of ...
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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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548. oldal - 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.
547. oldal - 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.
320. oldal - 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.
431. oldal - 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.
428. oldal - 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...
396. oldal - 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!
320. oldal - Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
319. oldal - 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...
397. oldal - 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.
317. oldal - 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.