I am afraid he must think me a strange fellow : but is it not odd, that the only truly generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker ! And he writes poetry too, Rejected Addresses: And Other Poems - Página xxde James Smith - 1860 - 414 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 páginas
...remarkable for generosity as for wit and playful humour. Shelley said once : 'I know not what Horace Smilh must take me for sometimes; I am afraid he must think...ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should he a stockbroker! And he writes poetrv too,' continued Mr. Shelley, his voice rising in a fervour of... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 páginas
...playful humour. Shelley said once : ' I know not what Horace Smith must take me for sometimes; lam afraid he must think me a strange fellow; but is it...money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker I And he writes poetry too,' continued Mr. Shelley, his voice rising in a fervour of astonishment —... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...Flowers," and some smaller poems, have attained a merited celebrity. Shelley once said of Horace Smith : " Is it not odd that the only truly generous person...knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stock -broker?" Shelley also wrote these lines, more truthful than poetical, in his praise : " \Vit... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1881 - 230 páginas
...Horace Smith must take me for, sometimes ; I am afraid he must think me a strange fellow ; but it is so odd, that the only truly generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stock broker. And he writes poetry, too," continued Shelley, his voice rising in a fervor of astonishment,—'... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 páginas
...Flowers," and some smaller poems, have attained a merited celebrity. Shelley once said of Horace Smith: cate my powers To thce and thine : have I riot kept...vow ? With beating heart лиЛ streaming eyes, e he a stock -broker?" Shelley also wrote these lines, more truthful than poetical, iu his praise : "... | |
| Henry Morley - 1885 - 332 páginas
...to the last amused himself with literature. " Is it not odd," Leigh Hunt wrote of him to Shelley, " that the only truly generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, was a stockbroker ! And he writes poetry too ; he writes poetry, and pastoral dramas, and yet knows... | |
| Félix Rabbe - 1888 - 330 páginas
...reformer, added the sound judgment of a man of business. Shelley himself has sketched him for us. " Is it not odd, that the only truly generous person...should be a stockbroker ? And he writes poetry, too, and pastoral dramas, and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous." And... | |
| 1888 - 920 páginas
...than his brother, though less ambitious of renown as a talker. It was of him that Shelley said : " Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker 1 He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows... | |
| Henry Morley - 1890 - 1142 páginas
...Mesmerism. In 1846 his Poetical Works were collected. Leigh Hunt writes that Shelley once said to him, " I know not what Horace Smith must take me for sometimes...person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, was a stockbroker ? And he writes poetry too," continued Shelley, his voice rising in a fervour of... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 páginas
...may bloom." Horace Smith was a stockbroker, and made a fortune at his business. Shelley said of him: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person...should be a stockbroker? And he writes poetry too, and pastoral dramas, and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous ! " Says... | |
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