A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of EnjoymentLeigh Hunt J.P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... Spirits - Muzzy Club - Harmonical So- ciety . COUNT FATHOM'S ADVENTURE IN THE LONE COTTAGE THE HERMIT PETER POUNCE'S DIALOGUE WITH PARSON ADAMS . From " Joseph Andrews " VERSES WRITTEN at an INN AT HENLEY FIVE LETTERS · TO HORACE ...
... Spirits - Muzzy Club - Harmonical So- ciety . COUNT FATHOM'S ADVENTURE IN THE LONE COTTAGE THE HERMIT PETER POUNCE'S DIALOGUE WITH PARSON ADAMS . From " Joseph Andrews " VERSES WRITTEN at an INN AT HENLEY FIVE LETTERS · TO HORACE ...
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... spirit in this way , when such occur . But this does not hinder them from en- joying another and a seasonable pleasure meantime . On the contrary , this very energy is the thing which hinders it from palling ; that is to say , supposing ...
... spirit in this way , when such occur . But this does not hinder them from en- joying another and a seasonable pleasure meantime . On the contrary , this very energy is the thing which hinders it from palling ; that is to say , supposing ...
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... spirit of the first conception was still , however , to be carefully retained . Life , without effemi- nately shutting one's eyes to its perplexities , was to be re- garded , not in spleen , or in sorrow , INTRODUCTION . 17.
... spirit of the first conception was still , however , to be carefully retained . Life , without effemi- nately shutting one's eyes to its perplexities , was to be re- garded , not in spleen , or in sorrow , INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... spirit of universal allowance , and not a privilege arrogated by conceit . He loves poetry and prose , fiction and matter of fact , seriousness and mirth ; because he is a thorough human being , and contains por- tions of all the ...
... spirit of universal allowance , and not a privilege arrogated by conceit . He loves poetry and prose , fiction and matter of fact , seriousness and mirth ; because he is a thorough human being , and contains por- tions of all the ...
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... spirits flee ; She meditates a prayer to set him free ; Nor gentle pardon could this dame deny ( If gentle pardon did with dames agree ) To her sad grief , which swells in either eye , And wrings her so that all for pity she could die ...
... spirits flee ; She meditates a prayer to set him free ; Nor gentle pardon could this dame deny ( If gentle pardon did with dames agree ) To her sad grief , which swells in either eye , And wrings her so that all for pity she could die ...
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Seite 46 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Seite 29 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Seite 167 - And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Seite 166 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Seite 226 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.
Seite 137 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?
Seite 167 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Seite 226 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Seite 164 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Seite 17 - Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.