Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volum 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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Pàgina 13
... genius on the real condition of the labor- ing population of these kingdoms , laid the foundations of that great popular feeling which prevails at the present day . Patriots and patrons of the people are now plentiful enough , but in ...
... genius on the real condition of the labor- ing population of these kingdoms , laid the foundations of that great popular feeling which prevails at the present day . Patriots and patrons of the people are now plentiful enough , but in ...
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... genius well founded , and received him to his own table . He then introduced him to Dr. Johnson , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and the surly old Lord Chancellor Thurlow ; the last of whom , though he had paid no attention to a letter he had ...
... genius well founded , and received him to his own table . He then introduced him to Dr. Johnson , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and the surly old Lord Chancellor Thurlow ; the last of whom , though he had paid no attention to a letter he had ...
Pàgina 32
... genius he broke through the obscurity of his birth ; yet never ceased to feel for the less fortunate . Entering , as his works can testify , into the sorrows and privations of the poorest of his par- ishioners ; and so discharging the ...
... genius he broke through the obscurity of his birth ; yet never ceased to feel for the less fortunate . Entering , as his works can testify , into the sorrows and privations of the poorest of his par- ishioners ; and so discharging the ...
Pàgina 35
... genius of his own . There was an absence of individuality in him . There was nothing , except that singular egotism and somewhat extravagant fancy , which could lead you on reading a poem of his to say , that is Hogg and can be no one ...
... genius of his own . There was an absence of individuality in him . There was nothing , except that singular egotism and somewhat extravagant fancy , which could lead you on reading a poem of his to say , that is Hogg and can be no one ...
Pàgina 36
... genius , but he can not , with all his ambition , seat himself in their heart of hearts like Robert Burns . There is nothing so amusing as Hogg's autobiography . His good - natured egotism overflows it . The capital terms on which he is ...
... genius , but he can not , with all his ambition , seat himself in their heart of hearts like Robert Burns . There is nothing so amusing as Hogg's autobiography . His good - natured egotism overflows it . The capital terms on which he is ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Pàgina 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Pàgina 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Pàgina 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Pàgina 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Pàgina 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Pàgina 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Pàgina 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Pàgina 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Pàgina 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...