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Página 138
... admirable for justice and for candor - the candor of an adversary and an opponent . It occurs in a " Review of the Writings and Character of Milton , " in which the American author had , as matter of course , controverted the decisions ...
... admirable for justice and for candor - the candor of an adversary and an opponent . It occurs in a " Review of the Writings and Character of Milton , " in which the American author had , as matter of course , controverted the decisions ...
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... admirable in her writings , excellent in her life . And yet of Mrs. Joanna Baillie , the praised of Scott , and of all whose praise is best worth having for half a century , what can I say , but that many an age to come will echo back ...
... admirable in her writings , excellent in her life . And yet of Mrs. Joanna Baillie , the praised of Scott , and of all whose praise is best worth having for half a century , what can I say , but that many an age to come will echo back ...
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... admirable as a letter - writer , as a reader of Shakspeare , and as a designer in almost every style . One of the few survivors of that brilliant society , himself a first - rate judge of art , says of her- " Her drawings and etchings ...
... admirable as a letter - writer , as a reader of Shakspeare , and as a designer in almost every style . One of the few survivors of that brilliant society , himself a first - rate judge of art , says of her- " Her drawings and etchings ...
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... admirable person , whose Christian graces were quite on a par with her mental endowments . Far too few of her poems have been published . Those which I subjoin , have been taken from a volume now very scarce , con- sisting of ...
... admirable person , whose Christian graces were quite on a par with her mental endowments . Far too few of her poems have been published . Those which I subjoin , have been taken from a volume now very scarce , con- sisting of ...
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... admirable order was mainly due . She was a sweet motherly woman , realizing our notion of one of Scott's most charming characters , Ailie Dinmont , in her simplicity , her kindness , and ker devo- tion to her husband and her children ...
... admirable order was mainly due . She was a sweet motherly woman , realizing our notion of one of Scott's most charming characters , Ailie Dinmont , in her simplicity , her kindness , and ker devo- tion to her husband and her children ...
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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 |
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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.