Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper & Brothers, Publishers, No. 82 Cliff Street, 1852 - 558 σελίδες |
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... , nor gloomy fear . What though no grant of royal donors With pompous titles grace our blood ? We'll shine in more substantial honors , And to be noble we'll be good . Our name , while virtue thus we tender , Shall A LITERARY LIFE . 13.
... , nor gloomy fear . What though no grant of royal donors With pompous titles grace our blood ? We'll shine in more substantial honors , And to be noble we'll be good . Our name , while virtue thus we tender , Shall A LITERARY LIFE . 13.
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... grace and sentiment . A lover sings it to his mistress . ' Tis not for love of gold I go , " Tis not for love of fame ; Though fortune may her smile bestow , And I may win a name , Ailleen ; And I may win a name . And yet it is for gold ...
... grace and sentiment . A lover sings it to his mistress . ' Tis not for love of gold I go , " Tis not for love of fame ; Though fortune may her smile bestow , And I may win a name , Ailleen ; And I may win a name . And yet it is for gold ...
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... grace , the finish , and the clearness which his verse too often wants . That there is one cry which pervades them - vanity of vanities ! all is vanity that there is an almost ostentatious longing for ob- scurity and retirement , may be ...
... grace , the finish , and the clearness which his verse too often wants . That there is one cry which pervades them - vanity of vanities ! all is vanity that there is an almost ostentatious longing for ob- scurity and retirement , may be ...
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... grace , spirit , and delicacy , will never be surpassed . OF SOLITUDE . Hail , old patrician trees , so great and good ! Hail , ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice , And for their quiet nests and plenteous food , Pay ...
... grace , spirit , and delicacy , will never be surpassed . OF SOLITUDE . Hail , old patrician trees , so great and good ! Hail , ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice , And for their quiet nests and plenteous food , Pay ...
Σελίδα 62
... grace and melody enchant the young ; the unaffected and all - pervading piety satisfy the serious ; and a certain slight touch of mysticism carries the imaginative reader fairly off his feet . For my 62 RECOLLECTIONS OF VI AMERICAN ...
... grace and melody enchant the young ; the unaffected and all - pervading piety satisfy the serious ; and a certain slight touch of mysticism carries the imaginative reader fairly off his feet . For my 62 RECOLLECTIONS OF VI AMERICAN ...
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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...