Among My Books, Том 1J. R. Osgood, 1877 - 380 стор. |
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... Poets . " If contempo- rary reputation be often deceitful , posthumous fame may be generally trusted , for it is a verdict made up of the suffrages of the select men in succeeding generations . This verdict has been as good as unanimous ...
... Poets . " If contempo- rary reputation be often deceitful , posthumous fame may be generally trusted , for it is a verdict made up of the suffrages of the select men in succeeding generations . This verdict has been as good as unanimous ...
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... poet , but perhaps of any poet at all ; for nothing is so sensitive to the chill of a sceptical atmosphere as that enthusiasm which , if it be not genius , is at least the beautiful illusion that saves it from the baffling quibbles of ...
... poet , but perhaps of any poet at all ; for nothing is so sensitive to the chill of a sceptical atmosphere as that enthusiasm which , if it be not genius , is at least the beautiful illusion that saves it from the baffling quibbles of ...
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... poetic creed , there was something in the nature of the man that would not be wholly subdued to what it worked in . There ... poet , it may be said of him , as Words- worth said of Burke , that " he was by far the greatest man of his age ...
... poetic creed , there was something in the nature of the man that would not be wholly subdued to what it worked in . There ... poet , it may be said of him , as Words- worth said of Burke , that " he was by far the greatest man of his age ...
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... poet's great - grandfather , who made in his will the some- what singular statement that he was " assured by the Holy Ghost that he was elect of God . " It would appear from this that Dryden's self - confidence was an inheritance . The ...
... poet's great - grandfather , who made in his will the some- what singular statement that he was " assured by the Holy Ghost that he was elect of God . " It would appear from this that Dryden's self - confidence was an inheritance . The ...
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... Poet Laureate , * and Howell as Historiographer , with yearly salary of two hundred pounds . This place he lost at the Revolution , and had the mortification to see his old enemy and butt , Shadwell , promoted to it , as the best poet ...
... Poet Laureate , * and Howell as Historiographer , with yearly salary of two hundred pounds . This place he lost at the Revolution , and had the mortification to see his old enemy and butt , Shadwell , promoted to it , as the best poet ...
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Сторінка 234 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Сторінка 208 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Сторінка 7 - The lonely mountains o'er and the resounding shore a voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; from haunted spring and dale edged with poplar pale the parting Genius is with sighing sent; with flower-inwoven tresses torn the nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Сторінка 264 - Your serpent of Egypt is bred, now, of your mud by the operation of your sun : so is your crocodile.
Сторінка 316 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Сторінка 258 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Сторінка 181 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 180 - When proud-pied April dressed in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything', That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the...
Сторінка 205 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.