The Brotherhood of LettersE. Stock, 1889 - 271 էջ |
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... head on the table in deep grief . As Mrs. Siddons was retiring , in the hope that her entrance had been unnoticed , Jeffrey raised his head and kindly beckoned her back . Perceiving that his cheek was flushed , and his eyes suffused ...
... head on the table in deep grief . As Mrs. Siddons was retiring , in the hope that her entrance had been unnoticed , Jeffrey raised his head and kindly beckoned her back . Perceiving that his cheek was flushed , and his eyes suffused ...
Էջ 45
... head , and with a satisfied ex- pression said : " Aweel , Wellington was a great mon , and verra smart in his own way ; but I doot -I doot , if he could ha ' driven seven hundred pigs frae Edinboro to Lonnon - and not lose one -as I ha ...
... head , and with a satisfied ex- pression said : " Aweel , Wellington was a great mon , and verra smart in his own way ; but I doot -I doot , if he could ha ' driven seven hundred pigs frae Edinboro to Lonnon - and not lose one -as I ha ...
Էջ 71
... head before writing them . He had just returned from a visit to Staffa , and within three days he had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave , and was composing a fourth when he was called in to see me . He said : ' If you are interested ...
... head before writing them . He had just returned from a visit to Staffa , and within three days he had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave , and was composing a fourth when he was called in to see me . He said : ' If you are interested ...
Էջ 90
... heads . " Imagine the astonishment of the refined and cultivated assembly when , immediately following this , Mark Twain arose , and , as C. M. Barrows * relates , gave an account of the unseemly behaviour of the three honoured poets ...
... heads . " Imagine the astonishment of the refined and cultivated assembly when , immediately following this , Mark Twain arose , and , as C. M. Barrows * relates , gave an account of the unseemly behaviour of the three honoured poets ...
Էջ 94
... love and fidelity . " The husband , " said Sterne , " who behaves unkindly to his wife deserves to have his house burned over his head . " Garrick's rejoinder was simply : " If you think so 94 MUTUAL - ADMIRATION SOCIETIES .
... love and fidelity . " The husband , " said Sterne , " who behaves unkindly to his wife deserves to have his house burned over his head . " Garrick's rejoinder was simply : " If you think so 94 MUTUAL - ADMIRATION SOCIETIES .
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Էջ 179 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Էջ 214 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Էջ 242 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ! Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Էջ 108 - AH, Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
Էջ 95 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Էջ 156 - Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day.
Էջ 109 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Էջ 42 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Էջ 39 - I remember how at Cambridge I walked with her once in the Fellows' Garden of Trinity on an evening of rainy May ; and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have been used so often as the inspiring trumpet-calls of men — the words God, Immortality, Duty — pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable was the "first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.
Էջ 107 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...