Literary Reminiscences: Literary novitiate. Sir H. Davy; Mr. Godwin; Mrs. Grant. Recollections of Charles Lamb. Walladmor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. William WordsworthTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... felt , lest any rude echoes might be roused . An ancient housekeeper was equally venerable , equally gentle in her deportment , quiet in her movements , and inaudible in her tread . One or other of these upper domestics , for the others ...
... felt , lest any rude echoes might be roused . An ancient housekeeper was equally venerable , equally gentle in her deportment , quiet in her movements , and inaudible in her tread . One or other of these upper domestics , for the others ...
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... felt , and little from immediate sympathy with the author ; and his animation was artificial , though his courtesy , which prompted the effort , was the truest and most unaffected possible . The connection between us must have been ...
... felt , and little from immediate sympathy with the author ; and his animation was artificial , though his courtesy , which prompted the effort , was the truest and most unaffected possible . The connection between us must have been ...
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... felt the warm pressure of his hand , saw dimly the outline of his venerable figure , more dimly his saintly counte nance , and quitted that gracious presence , which , in this world , I was destined no more to revisit . The night was ...
... felt the warm pressure of his hand , saw dimly the outline of his venerable figure , more dimly his saintly counte nance , and quitted that gracious presence , which , in this world , I was destined no more to revisit . The night was ...
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... felt of him in that relation , not so much as of a feeble man , but absolutely as of a Sporus , ( that was his very expres- sion , ) or a man emasculated . Right or wrong in his views , he showed the most painful defect of good sense ...
... felt of him in that relation , not so much as of a feeble man , but absolutely as of a Sporus , ( that was his very expres- sion , ) or a man emasculated . Right or wrong in his views , he showed the most painful defect of good sense ...
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... felt . The public of that day felt with regard to Burns exactly as with regard to Bloomfield - not that the quality of his poems was then the staple of the interest LITERARY NOVITIATE . 31.
... felt . The public of that day felt with regard to Burns exactly as with regard to Bloomfield - not that the quality of his poems was then the staple of the interest LITERARY NOVITIATE . 31.
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Página 342 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified : We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Página 345 - But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all...
Página 230 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Página 354 - The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Página 269 - Her eyes were not soft, as Mrs. Wordsworth's, nor were they fierce or bold; but they were wild and startling, and hurried in their motion. Her manner was warm and even ardent ; her sensibility seemed constitutionally deep ; and some subtle fire of impassioned intellect apparently burned within her, which, being alternately pushed forward into a conspicuous expression by the irrepressible instincts of her temperament, and then immediately checked, in obedience to the decorum of her sex and age, and...
Página 266 - ... of criticism — nay, generally pronounced very plain— to exercise all the practical fascination of beauty, through the mere compensatory charms of sweetness all but angelic, of simplicity the most entire, womanly self-respect and purity of heart speaking through all her looks, acts, and movements.
Página 268 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 265 - I heard a step, a voice, and, like a flash of lightning, I saw the figure emerge of a tallish man, who held out his hand, and saluted me with most cordial expressions of welcome.
Página 124 - There need not schools, nor the Professor's chair, Though these be good, true wisdom to impart; He, who has not enough for these to spare Of time, or gold, may yet amend his heart, And teach his soul, by brooks and rivers fair: Nature is always wise in every part.
Página 357 - The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.