In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other EssaysC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 312 páginas |
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Act of Parliament Bacon became biography Bishop Bodleian Bodley's book-collector booksellers Boswell Bradlaugh C. S. Calverley called Carlyle collection contempt copy court death died Disraeli Dunton edition Elizabeth Brownrigg English epitaph Erastian Essays famous father fellow Folio Free Church freethinker hand Hannah Hansard hard heart honour House of Lords human Itinerary Itinerist John Johnson Joseph Taylor judge King lady learning letters librarian literary lives Locker London Lord Chesterfield Lord Penzance Malone manuscripts matter melancholy ment mind Miss never Non-Jurors once Oxford Paine perhaps plays pleasure poet poor prayer printed published Quartos question Ranelagh reader religion seems Shakespeare Sir William Fraser strange taste things Thomas Hearne Thomas Paine thought tion told University vers de société volumes whilst whole words write Wroth Young
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Página 221 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Página 243 - A fever in these pages burns Beneath the calm they feign ; A wounded human spirit turns, Here, on its bed of pain.
Página 86 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 170 - FOUR ducks on a pond, A grass-bank beyond, A blue sky of spring, White clouds on the wing — What a little thing To remember for years. . . . To remember with tears!
Página 281 - UPON A CHILD THAT DIED. Here she lies, a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood; Who as soon fell fast asleep As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings, but not stir The earth that lightly covers her!
Página 238 - ... idiomatic, and rather in the conversational key ; the rhythm should be crisp and sparkling, and the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire poem should be marked by tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness : for, however trivial the subject-matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination to the rules of composition and perfection of execution should be strictly enforced.
Página 127 - ... little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character, is undeniable enough. That he was vain, heedless, a babbler; had much of the sycophant, alternating with the braggadocio, curiously spiced too with an all-pervading dash of the coxcomb; that he gloried much when the Tailor, by a court-suit, had made a new man of him; that he appeared at the Shakspeare Jubilee with a riband, imprinted 'CORSICA BOSWELL...
Página 277 - THE EPITAPH OF EROTION. Underneath this greedy stone, Lies little sweet Erotion ; Whom the fates, with hearts as cold, Nipt away at six years old. Thou, whoever thou may'st be, That hast this small field after me, Let the yearly rites be paid To her little slender shade ; So shall no disease or jar Hurt thy house or chill thy Lar ; But this tomb here be alone, The only melancholy stone.