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I hope it will not trouble my readers . We , a little child , and a young country
maiden , the daughter of a respectable Hampshire farmer , were no bad
representatives in point of cultivation of the noble dames and their attendant
damsels who had ...
I hope it will not trouble my readers . We , a little child , and a young country
maiden , the daughter of a respectable Hampshire farmer , were no bad
representatives in point of cultivation of the noble dames and their attendant
damsels who had ...
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They will rise in demand soon I hope , for my friend Mr . Willmott , a writer
deservedly popular , has praised them in one of his charming volumes just as
they ought to be praised . It would be difficult to say more . The poems are
singularly ...
They will rise in demand soon I hope , for my friend Mr . Willmott , a writer
deservedly popular , has praised them in one of his charming volumes just as
they ought to be praised . It would be difficult to say more . The poems are
singularly ...
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It abounds in happy traits , — especially the one , which tells to half an hour how
long a silly beauty may hope to retain the heart of a man of sense . The
expression when the haughty Isabella , unconscious of her conquest , and
marching on to ...
It abounds in happy traits , — especially the one , which tells to half an hour how
long a silly beauty may hope to retain the heart of a man of sense . The
expression when the haughty Isabella , unconscious of her conquest , and
marching on to ...
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I add one simile from the “ Address to a Child : " By what astrology of fear or hope
Dare I to cast thy horoscope ! Like the new moon thy life appears A little strip of
silver - light , And , widening outward into night , The shadowy disk of future years
...
I add one simile from the “ Address to a Child : " By what astrology of fear or hope
Dare I to cast thy horoscope ! Like the new moon thy life appears A little strip of
silver - light , And , widening outward into night , The shadowy disk of future years
...
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... great process of self - instruction , which distinguished him through life was
now begun ; and he already knew enough to feel an ardent desire to know more .
London , where his father was now living as a cobbler , offered at least the hope
of ...
... great process of self - instruction , which distinguished him through life was
now begun ; and he already knew enough to feel an ardent desire to know more .
London , where his father was now living as a cobbler , offered at least the hope
of ...
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Página 544 - 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 543 - 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 201 - Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie. My music shows ye have your closes. And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Página 318 - 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 314 - Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Página 318 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Página 242 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Página 180 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; 'Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;
Página 392 - 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!
Página 429 - ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, •** Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruin'd tower.