Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British PoetsRoutledge, 1863 - 706 páginas |
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William Howitt. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . THE present edition of this work has been delayed by the author's absence abroad for some years , and by other causes which need not be detailed here . It has now been carefully revised ...
William Howitt. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . THE present edition of this work has been delayed by the author's absence abroad for some years , and by other causes which need not be detailed here . It has now been carefully revised ...
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... present work . It will be recollected that it is professedly on the Homes and Haunts of the Poets , and is not strictly biographical . For this reason there are some poets of considerable eminence , who will find com- paratively small ...
... present work . It will be recollected that it is professedly on the Homes and Haunts of the Poets , and is not strictly biographical . For this reason there are some poets of considerable eminence , who will find com- paratively small ...
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... present themselves to your view as you enter , you find the premises occupied by at least half a dozen dif- ferent tenants and trades . Here is the inn , on the right hand ; on the left are offices of wine merchants and others . Under ...
... present themselves to your view as you enter , you find the premises occupied by at least half a dozen dif- ferent tenants and trades . Here is the inn , on the right hand ; on the left are offices of wine merchants and others . Under ...
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William Howitt. the present time , no longer , indeed , existing as an inn , but divided into a number of private tenements in High - street . The old inn mentioned by Chaucer was called the Chequers . It stands in the High - street , at ...
William Howitt. the present time , no longer , indeed , existing as an inn , but divided into a number of private tenements in High - street . The old inn mentioned by Chaucer was called the Chequers . It stands in the High - street , at ...
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... present to their society , for a host of wise and experience - fraught maxims , for many a tear shed , and emotion revived , and laugh of merriment , for many a happy hour and bright remembrance , we thank thee , Dan Chaucer , and just ...
... present to their society , for a host of wise and experience - fraught maxims , for many a tear shed , and emotion revived , and laugh of merriment , for many a happy hour and bright remembrance , we thank thee , Dan Chaucer , and just ...
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Página 200 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor...
Página 193 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Página 202 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Página 205 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 34 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 295 - Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 272 - Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot, But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more, Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener, Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapped In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet cap, 'Tis now become a history little...
Página 306 - And then I clasped my hands, and looked around — (But none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which poured their warm drops on the sunny ground) — So without shame I spake — I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power ; for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.
Página 192 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 59 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!