Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper, 1852 - 558 páginas |
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... delightful pleasantries of Praed , and Frere , and Catherine Fanshawe are difficult , if not impossible to procure ; and others pos- sess in perfection the sort of novelty which belongs to the forgotten . Among these I may class ...
... delightful pleasantries of Praed , and Frere , and Catherine Fanshawe are difficult , if not impossible to procure ; and others pos- sess in perfection the sort of novelty which belongs to the forgotten . Among these I may class ...
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... curls , I might have passed for the twin sister of my own great doll . Foxite newspaper , 66 On the table was I perched to read some Courier , " or " Morning Chronicle , " the A Whiggish oracles of the day , and as my delight.
... curls , I might have passed for the twin sister of my own great doll . Foxite newspaper , 66 On the table was I perched to read some Courier , " or " Morning Chronicle , " the A Whiggish oracles of the day , and as my delight.
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... delight in the high - sea- soned politics of sixty years ago was naturally less than that of my hearers , this display of precocious acquirement was commonly rewarded , not by cakes or sugar - plums , too plentiful in my case to be very ...
... delight in the high - sea- soned politics of sixty years ago was naturally less than that of my hearers , this display of precocious acquirement was commonly rewarded , not by cakes or sugar - plums , too plentiful in my case to be very ...
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... delights by the mere sight and sound of Chevy Chase or the battle of Otterbourne . And as time wore on , the fine ballad of " King Estmere , ” ac- cording to Bishop Percy , one of the most ancient in the collection , got to be among our ...
... delights by the mere sight and sound of Chevy Chase or the battle of Otterbourne . And as time wore on , the fine ballad of " King Estmere , ” ac- cording to Bishop Percy , one of the most ancient in the collection , got to be among our ...
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... delightful than in the neighborhood of Maidenhead , —one side ramparted by the high , abrupt , chalky cliffs of Buckinghamshire ; the other edging gently away into our rich Berkshire meadows , checkered with villages , villas , and ...
... delightful than in the neighborhood of Maidenhead , —one side ramparted by the high , abrupt , chalky cliffs of Buckinghamshire ; the other edging gently away into our rich Berkshire meadows , checkered with villages , villas , and ...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Visualização completa - 1858 |
Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1 Mary Russell Mitford Visualização completa - 1852 |
Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1 Mary Russell Mitford Visualização completa - 1852 |
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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.