Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... Shelley Charles Dickens • Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson PAGE Fraser Rae 473 Alfred Ainger 487 Sir Leslie Stephen 501 Richard Garnett 551 Sir Leslie Stephen 569 • • Edmund Gosse 595 Sidney Colvin 623 X TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... Shelley Charles Dickens • Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson PAGE Fraser Rae 473 Alfred Ainger 487 Sir Leslie Stephen 501 Richard Garnett 551 Sir Leslie Stephen 569 • • Edmund Gosse 595 Sidney Colvin 623 X TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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... Browning , are mostly fabrications by a person claiming to be a natural son of Byron . Many most important additions , however , have been made to those published in 1840. In 1862 the present writer , as the result of an examination of ...
... Browning , are mostly fabrications by a person claiming to be a natural son of Byron . Many most important additions , however , have been made to those published in 1840. In 1862 the present writer , as the result of an examination of ...
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... ' Pauline ' ( 1833 ) is the outburst of Browning's passionate admiration . After many vicissitudes , opinion seems to be agreeing to recognise Shelley as the supreme lyrist , all of whose poems , THE LIFE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 567.
... ' Pauline ' ( 1833 ) is the outburst of Browning's passionate admiration . After many vicissitudes , opinion seems to be agreeing to recognise Shelley as the supreme lyrist , all of whose poems , THE LIFE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 567.
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... BROWNING EDMUND GOSSE [ From the Dictionary of National Biography . ] BROWNING , ROBERT ( 1812-1889 ) , poet , was descended , as he believed , from an Anglo - Saxon family which bore in Norman times the name De Bruni . As a matter of ...
... BROWNING EDMUND GOSSE [ From the Dictionary of National Biography . ] BROWNING , ROBERT ( 1812-1889 ) , poet , was descended , as he believed , from an Anglo - Saxon family which bore in Norman times the name De Bruni . As a matter of ...
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... Browning , was born in 1749 , and was a clerk in the bank of England , rising to be principal of the bank stock office . He married , in 1778 , Margaret Tittle , a West Indian heiress . He died at Islington on 11 Dec. 1833. By his first ...
... Browning , was born in 1749 , and was a clerk in the bank of England , rising to be principal of the bank stock office . He married , in 1778 , Margaret Tittle , a West Indian heiress . He died at Islington on 11 Dec. 1833. By his first ...
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Página 617 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 73 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 80 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 459 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 63 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 371 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 325 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Página 202 - Achilles strove; Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove Declare, O Muse, in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended Power! Latona's...