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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... interest in me , for whom he talked , and not in the subject : he spoke much from memory , as it were of things that ... interests of this world , or all that it inherits , was now rapidly departing . Daily and consciously he was loosen ...
... interest in me , for whom he talked , and not in the subject : he spoke much from memory , as it were of things that ... interests of this world , or all that it inherits , was now rapidly departing . Daily and consciously he was loosen ...
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... interest in politics , and wrote upon politics - all which are facts usually presuming some vigor of mind . And he wrote , moreover , on the popular side , and with a boldness which , in that day , when such politics were abso- lutely ...
... interest in politics , and wrote upon politics - all which are facts usually presuming some vigor of mind . And he wrote , moreover , on the popular side , and with a boldness which , in that day , when such politics were abso- lutely ...
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... interest ( which , for some time , had languished under the oppression of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron ) in all that related to Burns . Fresh Lives appeared in a continued succession , until , upon the death of Lord Byron in 1824 ...
... interest ( which , for some time , had languished under the oppression of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron ) in all that related to Burns . Fresh Lives appeared in a continued succession , until , upon the death of Lord Byron in 1824 ...
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... interest to his case , which was wanting in the other ; and a direct result of this was , that his executors were able to lay before the world a series of his letters recording his opinions upon a considerable variety of authors , and ...
... interest to his case , which was wanting in the other ; and a direct result of this was , that his executors were able to lay before the world a series of his letters recording his opinions upon a considerable variety of authors , and ...
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... a person as obscure as myself , it held out the flattering expressions of a wish to recommend him- self , an assurance of interest in your person , and a desire In such expressions of both to know and to be 38 LITERARY REMINISCENCES .
... a person as obscure as myself , it held out the flattering expressions of a wish to recommend him- self , an assurance of interest in your person , and a desire In such expressions of both to know and to be 38 LITERARY REMINISCENCES .
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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.