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... spirit of coterie or the influence of fashion . Many of my extracts will be found to comprise the best bits of neglected authors ; and some , I think , as the noble murder speech of Daniel Web- ster , the poems of Thomas Davis , of Mrs ...
... spirit of coterie or the influence of fashion . Many of my extracts will be found to comprise the best bits of neglected authors ; and some , I think , as the noble murder speech of Daniel Web- ster , the poems of Thomas Davis , of Mrs ...
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... spirit and of melody , qualities not incompatible with inexperience in poetical composition , but the ar- tistic merit is so great . Picture succeeds to picture , each perfect in itself , and each conducing to the effect of the whole ...
... spirit and of melody , qualities not incompatible with inexperience in poetical composition , but the ar- tistic merit is so great . Picture succeeds to picture , each perfect in itself , and each conducing to the effect of the whole ...
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... spirit , and delicacy , will never be surpassed . OF SOLITUDE . Hail , old patrician trees , so great and good ! Hail , ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice , And for their quiet nests and plenteous food , Pay with ...
... spirit , and delicacy , will never be surpassed . OF SOLITUDE . Hail , old patrician trees , so great and good ! Hail , ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice , And for their quiet nests and plenteous food , Pay with ...
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... spirit which is peculiar to boys ; and notwith- standing the prodigious speed and irregular motion of the horse , threw my left leg over the saddle . It was with the utmost diffi- culty that I could preserve my balance , but I did ...
... spirit which is peculiar to boys ; and notwith- standing the prodigious speed and irregular motion of the horse , threw my left leg over the saddle . It was with the utmost diffi- culty that I could preserve my balance , but I did ...
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... spirit with which two of the most eminent of Fletcher's friendly rivals came to the rescue with laudatory verses . The circum- stance does so much honor to all parties , and some of the lines are so good , that I can not help quoting ...
... spirit with which two of the most eminent of Fletcher's friendly rivals came to the rescue with laudatory verses . The circum- stance does so much honor to all parties , and some of the lines are so good , that I can not help quoting ...
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Page 548 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 318 - 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.
Page 317 - Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: Like a highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower: Like a glowworm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view!
Page 547 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 244 - ... Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 317 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 320 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Page 140 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 182 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;
Page 432 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be...