Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper, 1852 - 558 páginas |
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... scene and a happy hour seemed to live again in my memory and my heart . But no higher pleasure can it afford me , than the opportunity of express- ing to you my sincere respect and admiration for talent , espe- cially dramatic talent ...
... scene and a happy hour seemed to live again in my memory and my heart . But no higher pleasure can it afford me , than the opportunity of express- ing to you my sincere respect and admiration for talent , espe- cially dramatic talent ...
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... scene - painting for the grave pretension of critical essays , and far too much of criticism and extract for any thing approaching in the slightest degree to autobiography . The courteous reader must take it for what it is : -an attempt ...
... scene - painting for the grave pretension of critical essays , and far too much of criticism and extract for any thing approaching in the slightest degree to autobiography . The courteous reader must take it for what it is : -an attempt ...
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... scene did that old church exhibit — that of an edifice not yet decayed , but abandoned to decay ; an incipient ruin , such as probably might have been paralleled in the monasteries of England after the Reformation , or in the churches ...
... scene did that old church exhibit — that of an edifice not yet decayed , but abandoned to decay ; an incipient ruin , such as probably might have been paralleled in the monasteries of England after the Reformation , or in the churches ...
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... scene did I love to ramble by the side of the Thames , as it bounded the beautiful grounds of Lord Orkney , or the magnificent demesne of Sir George Warren der , the verdant lawns of Cliefden . That place also is full of memories ...
... scene did I love to ramble by the side of the Thames , as it bounded the beautiful grounds of Lord Orkney , or the magnificent demesne of Sir George Warren der , the verdant lawns of Cliefden . That place also is full of memories ...
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... scene to mark From the bosom of Father Thames . The following powerful lines are better known , and serve to show the variety of Mr. Noel's talent . THE PAUPER'S DRIVE . There's a grim one - horse hearse in a jolly round trot ; To the ...
... scene to mark From the bosom of Father Thames . The following powerful lines are better known , and serve to show the variety of Mr. Noel's talent . THE PAUPER'S DRIVE . There's a grim one - horse hearse in a jolly round trot ; To the ...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Vista completa - 1858 |
Términos y frases comunes
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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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.