Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper & Brothers, Publishers, No. 82 Cliff Street, 1852 - 558 σελίδες |
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... called upon to exhibit , during some temporary absence of the dear mamma , and cried out amain for the ditty that I loved . My father , who spoilt me , did not know a word of it , but he hunted over all the shelves till he had found the ...
... called upon to exhibit , during some temporary absence of the dear mamma , and cried out amain for the ditty that I loved . My father , who spoilt me , did not know a word of it , but he hunted over all the shelves till he had found the ...
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... called metaphysical , he is now chiefly known by those prose essays , all too short and all too few , which , whether for thought or for expression , have rarely been excelled by any writer in any language . They are eminently ...
... called metaphysical , he is now chiefly known by those prose essays , all too short and all too few , which , whether for thought or for expression , have rarely been excelled by any writer in any language . They are eminently ...
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... We find another graceful bit of autobiography in an Essay addressed to Evelyn , and called " The Garden : " " I never had any other desire so strong and so like to covet- ousness , as that one which I have had always 42 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... We find another graceful bit of autobiography in an Essay addressed to Evelyn , and called " The Garden : " " I never had any other desire so strong and so like to covet- ousness , as that one which I have had always 42 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... called Sovereigns in England ; to oppress all his enemies by arms , and all his friends afterward by artifice ; to serve all parties patiently for awhile , and to command them victoriously at last ; to overrun each corner of the three ...
... called Sovereigns in England ; to oppress all his enemies by arms , and all his friends afterward by artifice ; to serve all parties patiently for awhile , and to command them victoriously at last ; to overrun each corner of the three ...
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... called coquette , and now known by the name of flirt , is very lit- tle altered since the days of the Merry Monarch ? and that a similar list compiled by some gay bachelor of Belgravia might , allowing for differences of custom and of ...
... called coquette , and now known by the name of flirt , is very lit- tle altered since the days of the Merry Monarch ? and that a similar list compiled by some gay bachelor of Belgravia might , allowing for differences of custom and of ...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Πλήρης προβολή - 1858 |
Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Πλήρης προβολή - 1852 |
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admirable ballads beauty Ben Jonson bird Bonny Dundee Bradshaigh bright brother called charming Colley Cibber dance dear death delight doth EACUS English EURIPIDES eyes fair father fear feeling flowers Gelert George Crowninshield Gerald Griffin give Goodere grace gray horse hand happy hath hear heard heart honor hope horse hour Hyd y Joanna Baillie John John Clare King knew Kyng lady laughed letter light live look Lord maid mignonette Molière morning murder never night o'er once Pan is dead passed person pleasure poems poet poetry poor praise rose round scene seemed sing smile Soame Jenyns song story sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought took trees twas verse walk Winthrop Mackworth Praed wonder words write XANTHIAS young youth
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Σελίδα 548 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Σελίδα 318 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine! I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Σελίδα 317 - Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: Like a highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower: Like a glowworm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view!
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 244 - ... Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Σελίδα 317 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Σελίδα 320 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Σελίδα 140 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Σελίδα 182 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;
Σελίδα 432 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be...