The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Том 3Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 |
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Сторінка 243 - I find I shall conform in time to that state of life to which it has pleased God to call me.
Сторінка 325 - Here is a man at Keswick, who acts upon me as my own ghost would do. He is just what I was in 1794.
Сторінка 125 - To Jeffrey as an individual I shall ever be ready to show every kind of individual courtesy ; but of Judge Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review I must ever think and speak as of a bad politician, a worse moralist, and a critic, in matters of taste, equally incompetent and unjust.
Сторінка 246 - Wordsworth's pamphlet will fail of producing any general effect, because the sentences are long and involved ; and his friend, De Quincey, who corrected the press, has rendered them more obscure by an unusual system of punctuation.
Сторінка 326 - ... perfectly understands him, and does him full justice. I tell him that all the difference between us is that he is nineteen and I am thirtyseven ; and I dare say it will not be very long before I shall succeed in convincing him that he may be a true philosopher, and do a great deal of good, with...
Сторінка 126 - Marmion is expected as impatiently by me as he is by ten thousand others. Believe me, Scott, no man of real genius was ever a puritanical stickler for correctness, or fastidious about any faults except his own. The best artists, both in poetry and painting, have produced the most. Give us more lays, and correct them at leisure for after editions, — not laboriously, but when the amendment comes naturally and unsought for. It never does to sit down doggedly to correct.
Сторінка 46 - Don't swear, and bid me do one thing at a time. I tell you I can't afford to do one thing at a time — no, nor two neither; and it is only by doing many things that I contrive to do so much : for I cannot work long together at anything without hurting myself, and so I do everything by heats ; then, by the time I am tired of one, my inclination for another is come round.
Сторінка 81 - Ten in the hundred lies here ingraved, 'Tis a hundred to ten, his soul is not saved : If any man ask, Who lies in this tomb ? "Oh! ho!" quoth the Devil, "'tis my John-a-Combe.
Сторінка 346 - Unlike my subject now shall be my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Сторінка 3 - Well, after tea, I go to poetry and correct and re-write and copy till I am tired, and then turn to anything else till supper, and this is my life — which if it be not a very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish.