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... uttered , it reads well , its impression seldom fails of permanency . His Wit and Wisdom is a kind of Talker's Guide or Handbook of Conversation . How should it be otherwise , seeing that it con- tains the characteristic utterances of a ...
... uttered , it reads well , its impression seldom fails of permanency . His Wit and Wisdom is a kind of Talker's Guide or Handbook of Conversation . How should it be otherwise , seeing that it con- tains the characteristic utterances of a ...
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... mean- ings in Browning . But it was not uttered to please , and in truth it has enough of plausibility to infuriate whatever poet - sects there be . Especially the Wordsworthians . His Critics . To HUGO O many Hugo was of BYRON 73.
... mean- ings in Browning . But it was not uttered to please , and in truth it has enough of plausibility to infuriate whatever poet - sects there be . Especially the Wordsworthians . His Critics . To HUGO O many Hugo was of BYRON 73.
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... uttered the deepest word , for Musset is the poet of Rolla and the Nuits in verse and the poet of Fantasio and Lorenzaccio and Carmosine in prose . But the epoch Hugo represented was interested in the manner rather than the substance of ...
... uttered the deepest word , for Musset is the poet of Rolla and the Nuits in verse and the poet of Fantasio and Lorenzaccio and Carmosine in prose . But the epoch Hugo represented was interested in the manner rather than the substance of ...
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... uttered his last word . He remains in the front of time as when he lived and wrote . The Abbey of Thelema and the education of Gargantua are still unrealised ideals ; the Ringing Isle and the Isle of Papimany are in their essentials 6 ...
... uttered his last word . He remains in the front of time as when he lived and wrote . The Abbey of Thelema and the education of Gargantua are still unrealised ideals ; the Ringing Isle and the Isle of Papimany are in their essentials 6 ...
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... uttered , ' and for good . Could anything , for instance , be better , or less laboriously said , than this poet's remonstrance To an Intrusive Butterfly ? The thing is instinct with delicate observation , so aptly and closely expressed ...
... uttered , ' and for good . Could anything , for instance , be better , or less laboriously said , than this poet's remonstrance To an Intrusive Butterfly ? The thing is instinct with delicate observation , so aptly and closely expressed ...
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Página 183 - Tis dark: the iced gusts still rave and beat: "No dream, alas! alas! and woe is mine! "Porphyro will leave me here to fade and pine,— "Cruel!
Página 72 - The power of Byron's personality lies in " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.
Página 72 - When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to recount her poetic glories in the century which has then just ended, the first names with her will be these.
Página 238 - Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived.
Página 184 - To yonder argent round; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before Thee; So in mine earthly house I am, To that I hope to be. Break up the heavens, O Lord! and far, Thro' all yon starlight keen, Draw me, thy bride, a glittering star, In raiment white and clean.
Página 103 - Hoder touch'd his arm. And as a spray of honeysuckle flowers Brushes across a tired traveller's face Who shuffles through the deep dew-moisten'd dust, On a May evening, in the darken'd lanes, And starts him, that he thinks a ghost went by — So Hoder...
Página 223 - Tis necessary Wolves should eat. If, mindful of the bleating weal, Thy bosom burn with real zeal, Hence, and thy tyrant lord beseech ; To him repeat the moving speech: A Wolf eats sheep but now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.
Página 237 - It is related of the great Dr. Clarke, that when in one of his leisure hours he was unbending himself with a few friends in the most playful and frolicsome manner, he observed Beau Nash approaching, upon which he suddenly stopped: ' My boys (said he), let us be grave: here comes a fool.
Página 4 - It is in the laborious struggle to make this distinction, and in the determination to try for it, that the road to the correction of faults lies. [Perhaps I may remark, in support of the sincerity with which I write this, that I am an impatient and impulsive person myself, but that it has been for many years the constant effort of my life to practise at my desk what I preach to you.] I should not have written so much, or so plainly, but for your last letter to me.
Página 199 - I've met with many a breeze before, But never such a blow." Then reading on his 'bacco box, He heaved a bitter sigh, And then began to eye his pipe, And then to pipe his eye. And then he tried to sing "All's Well," But could not though he tried : His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died.