Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins, Volumen1R. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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... never be bored with authorship at Mortimer's table . If you liked to talk books you might do it , and you would be sure to hear some views of men and things literary both interesting and original ; but you would also find knowledge of a ...
... never be bored with authorship at Mortimer's table . If you liked to talk books you might do it , and you would be sure to hear some views of men and things literary both interesting and original ; but you would also find knowledge of a ...
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... never take the trouble to alter or polish anything he had written , because , he said , it was less trouble to write something fresh . He seldom made memoranda or notes for his literary work , but carried all in his brain . When he ...
... never take the trouble to alter or polish anything he had written , because , he said , it was less trouble to write something fresh . He seldom made memoranda or notes for his literary work , but carried all in his brain . When he ...
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... guide him in circumstances whereby he is himself perplexed . The man who learns nothing from his wife is a stolid blockhead , who will never learn anything from anybody . . . . Comedies and novels are laughed at for ending with marriage ,
... guide him in circumstances whereby he is himself perplexed . The man who learns nothing from his wife is a stolid blockhead , who will never learn anything from anybody . . . . Comedies and novels are laughed at for ending with marriage ,
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... and the youthful admirer was never tired of telling the tale and imitating the manner in which the order was given . It curiously contrasts with his after life when , struggling against debt and piteously asking his publisher to send him.
... and the youthful admirer was never tired of telling the tale and imitating the manner in which the order was given . It curiously contrasts with his after life when , struggling against debt and piteously asking his publisher to send him.
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... never cared to inquire too curiously into the matter , but in years after , when we visited Mortimer in his Berkshire cottage , we saw the man in his true element , and we ourselves learnt from him to love that true life rather than the ...
... never cared to inquire too curiously into the matter , but in years after , when we visited Mortimer in his Berkshire cottage , we saw the man in his true element , and we ourselves learnt from him to love that true life rather than the ...
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Página 156 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Página 188 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Página 250 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Página 154 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 58 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 248 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Página 87 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 33 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 140 - RED o'er the forest peers the setting sun. The line of yellow light dies fast away That crowned the eastern copse : and chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Página 230 - Thou printest all — and sellest some — My Murray. Upon thy table's baize so green The last new Quarterly is seen, — But where is thy new Magazine, My Murray ? Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine — The " Art of Cookery,