Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper, 1852 - 558 páginas |
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... doubt ; so is its extraordinary beauty - a beauty quite free from the conceits which deform too many of our finest old lyrics . Go , Soul , the body's guest , Upon a thankless errand ; Fear not to touch the best , The truth shall be thy ...
... doubt ; so is its extraordinary beauty - a beauty quite free from the conceits which deform too many of our finest old lyrics . Go , Soul , the body's guest , Upon a thankless errand ; Fear not to touch the best , The truth shall be thy ...
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... doubt- less disgusted , as so pure a writer was pretty sure to be , by a dis- solute Court , with whom he would find it easier to sympathize in its misery than in its triumph . Buckingham , with the fellow- feeling of talent for talent ...
... doubt- less disgusted , as so pure a writer was pretty sure to be , by a dis- solute Court , with whom he would find it easier to sympathize in its misery than in its triumph . Buckingham , with the fellow- feeling of talent for talent ...
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... doubt , is that which is reflected from honesty , such as is the glory of Cato and Aristides ; but it was painful to them both , and is seldom beneficial to any man while he lives . What it is to him after his death , I can not say ...
... doubt , is that which is reflected from honesty , such as is the glory of Cato and Aristides ; but it was painful to them both , and is seldom beneficial to any man while he lives . What it is to him after his death , I can not say ...
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... doubt his lordship recognizes The coat he had on at assizes , A velveret , genteel and neat , With tabby lined and frogs complete , Made for Squire Gudgeon's wedding ball , When first he came to Webfoot Hall , An ancient seat in the ...
... doubt his lordship recognizes The coat he had on at assizes , A velveret , genteel and neat , With tabby lined and frogs complete , Made for Squire Gudgeon's wedding ball , When first he came to Webfoot Hall , An ancient seat in the ...
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... doubt if , for the fifty years that preceded the first French revolution , England herself had been better off in the way of smooth and polished rhyme . But they are an am- bitious race , these transatlantic kinsmen of ours , commonly ...
... doubt if , for the fifty years that preceded the first French revolution , England herself had been better off in the way of smooth and polished rhyme . But they are an am- bitious race , these transatlantic kinsmen of ours , commonly ...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Vista completa - 1858 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 320 - Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.