The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed: With a Memoir by Derwent ColeridgeE. Moxon, 1874 |
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Page viii
... thought or action , in literature or in public life , to draw the eyes of men to his private fortunes and character , -what he has done leading them to inquire what he was ; or there may have been something in the man himself , some ...
... thought or action , in literature or in public life , to draw the eyes of men to his private fortunes and character , -what he has done leading them to inquire what he was ; or there may have been something in the man himself , some ...
Page ix
... thought , be studied with plea- sure and advantage on its own account . And if this language be criticised as the heightened utterance of partial friendship , it will yet be repeated by many voices . To his contemporaries , to all by ...
... thought , be studied with plea- sure and advantage on its own account . And if this language be criticised as the heightened utterance of partial friendship , it will yet be repeated by many voices . To his contemporaries , to all by ...
Page xii
... thought and language , not less remarkable , and of far surer promise . The same remark applies with still greater force to his early verses . Indications of wit and fancy , afterwards so conspicuous in his writings , are not wanting ...
... thought and language , not less remarkable , and of far surer promise . The same remark applies with still greater force to his early verses . Indications of wit and fancy , afterwards so conspicuous in his writings , are not wanting ...
Page xv
... similar distinctions , numerous beyond all pre- vious example . Meanwhile his poetic faculty was exercised not alone in the usual routine of school exercises , distinguished in his case by a sparkling vein of thought more MEMOIR . XV.
... similar distinctions , numerous beyond all pre- vious example . Meanwhile his poetic faculty was exercised not alone in the usual routine of school exercises , distinguished in his case by a sparkling vein of thought more MEMOIR . XV.
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... thought more than commonly original and characteristic . Poetry , in his mother - tongue , was his recreation . His ready pen sported with equal ease whether in verse or prose composition . It has been said that his poetic faculty was ...
... thought more than commonly original and characteristic . Poetry , in his mother - tongue , was his recreation . His ready pen sported with equal ease whether in verse or prose composition . It has been said that his poetic faculty was ...
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Abbess beauteous beauty beneath blessed bliss bower breath bright brow CANTO charm cheek cold Count Otto courser dance dark dear DERWENT COLERIDGE Dragon dream earth Eton Etonian eyes faded fair Fair Lady fairy fancy fat friars father fears flings flowers fond frown gaze grave grief hand hath hear heard heart heaven Helen Henry Nelson Coleridge hope hopes and fears John Moultrie King Arthur Knight Lady laugh light lips lonely look Lord Lurley lute maiden Minstrel mirth murmur never o'er pain pale passion poems Praed Praed's praise prayer rhyme rose round sigh silent sleep smile song sorrow soul strange sweet tears tell thee thine thing thou wilt thought to-day to-night toil tone Troubadour Twas verse Vidal voice Walmer Castle wandering weep Whate'er whispered wild WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED young youth