The National Review, Volumen3Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... hand , when we write , it is not to betray ourselves ; and even in the very frankest and most inti- mate self - revelations of friendship and love , we unconsciously , and even necessarily distort the proportions and soften the edges of ...
... hand , when we write , it is not to betray ourselves ; and even in the very frankest and most inti- mate self - revelations of friendship and love , we unconsciously , and even necessarily distort the proportions and soften the edges of ...
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... hand , there are in these satires couplets scarcely inferior to Pope in neatness and point ; such as , Or " But bees , on flowers alighting , cease to hum So , settling upon places , Whigs grow dumb . " ; " The smith of Ephesus thought ...
... hand , there are in these satires couplets scarcely inferior to Pope in neatness and point ; such as , Or " But bees , on flowers alighting , cease to hum So , settling upon places , Whigs grow dumb . " ; " The smith of Ephesus thought ...
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... hand at an opera , very busy under the stimulus of a failing exchequer , and very gay whether it is full or empty . His plan seems always to have been to get the money , and often to spend it , before he wrote the poem . Such an ...
... hand at an opera , very busy under the stimulus of a failing exchequer , and very gay whether it is full or empty . His plan seems always to have been to get the money , and often to spend it , before he wrote the poem . Such an ...
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... hand for the publication of Lalla Rookh . On the 13th May he writes to his mother that it is still unfinished ; on the 30th he tells her it is already going into the second edition ; and before the end of the year the sixth has been ...
... hand for the publication of Lalla Rookh . On the 13th May he writes to his mother that it is still unfinished ; on the 30th he tells her it is already going into the second edition ; and before the end of the year the sixth has been ...
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... hands them all over to Moore , and gives him 4000 guineas to make the most of them . In all his dealings with Moore Mr. Murray fully justifies an ex- pression of Byron's , who called him " the most nervous of God's booksellers . " He ...
... hands them all over to Moore , and gives him 4000 guineas to make the most of them . In all his dealings with Moore Mr. Murray fully justifies an ex- pression of Byron's , who called him " the most nervous of God's booksellers . " He ...
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Página 377 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
Página 376 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 50 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 360 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...
Página 370 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Página 369 - I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Página 377 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 370 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 50 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Página 241 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...