Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and PeopleHarper, 1872 - 558 էջ |
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... appear , that it should have been the work of an unpracticed hand . Not only is it full of spirit and of melody , qualities not incompatible with inexperience in poetical composition , but the ar- tistic merit is so great . Picture ...
... appear , that it should have been the work of an unpracticed hand . Not only is it full of spirit and of melody , qualities not incompatible with inexperience in poetical composition , but the ar- tistic merit is so great . Picture ...
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... appears to have been kind to him ; and when he fled from the world ( not very far , he found his be- loved solitude at Chertsey ) , it is satisfactory to know that he so far escaped the proverbial ingratitude of the Restoration as to ...
... appears to have been kind to him ; and when he fled from the world ( not very far , he found his be- loved solitude at Chertsey ) , it is satisfactory to know that he so far escaped the proverbial ingratitude of the Restoration as to ...
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... appear by the latter end of an ode , which I made when I was but thirteen years old , and which was then printed with many other verses . The be- ginning of it is boyish , but of this part which I have set down ( if a very little were ...
... appear by the latter end of an ode , which I made when I was but thirteen years old , and which was then printed with many other verses . The be- ginning of it is boyish , but of this part which I have set down ( if a very little were ...
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... appears , at first a stolid , stupid witness , from whom it is difficult to extort a word , and who has a mind to break away : - " My lord , I wishes to be going , For ' tis a charming time for sowing . " ( Lent assizes , I presume ...
... appears , at first a stolid , stupid witness , from whom it is difficult to extort a word , and who has a mind to break away : - " My lord , I wishes to be going , For ' tis a charming time for sowing . " ( Lent assizes , I presume ...
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... appears A little strip of silver - light , And , widening outward into night , The shadowy disk of future years ! And yet , upon its outer rim , A luminous circle faint and dim , And scarcely visible to us here , Rounds and completes ...
... appears A little strip of silver - light , And , widening outward into night , The shadowy disk of future years ! And yet , upon its outer rim , A luminous circle faint and dim , And scarcely visible to us here , Rounds and completes ...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
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Էջ 545 - 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.
Էջ 438 - Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath, When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, — Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover ! THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT.
Էջ 546 - 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.
Էջ 138 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Էջ 315 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Էջ 316 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee; Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Էջ 394 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! 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!
Էջ 394 - 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!
Էջ 182 - Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground ; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.
Էջ 430 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river. With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement. She stood, with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch. Or the black flowing river : Mad from Life's history, Glad to Death's mystery, Swift to be hurled— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly.