MosaicsC. Scribner, 1859 - 408 pages |
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Page vii
... facts and fancies in the storehouse of memory . Yet memory , not always faithful to her trust , but , methinks , resembling too oft a wayward and capricious sprite , defying our chase , hath moved me to note down from time to time such ...
... facts and fancies in the storehouse of memory . Yet memory , not always faithful to her trust , but , methinks , resembling too oft a wayward and capricious sprite , defying our chase , hath moved me to note down from time to time such ...
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... facts connected with the private habits of literary men ; as everything regarding their movements and peculiarities is full of interest . While it has been affirmed that " genius is allied to madness , " it is far pleasanter to indulge ...
... facts connected with the private habits of literary men ; as everything regarding their movements and peculiarities is full of interest . While it has been affirmed that " genius is allied to madness , " it is far pleasanter to indulge ...
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... fact , its bright side as well as its dark , and if it is dis- tressing to survey the misery and debasement of so many gifted men , it is doubly cheering , on the other hand , to reflect on the few , who , amid the temptations and ...
... fact , its bright side as well as its dark , and if it is dis- tressing to survey the misery and debasement of so many gifted men , it is doubly cheering , on the other hand , to reflect on the few , who , amid the temptations and ...
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... fact , lower than any prescribed by the Poor - law Commissioners ; all animal food from a bullock to a rabbit , being strictly interdicted ; as well as all fluids stronger than that which lays dust ; but the ' feast of reason and the ...
... fact , lower than any prescribed by the Poor - law Commissioners ; all animal food from a bullock to a rabbit , being strictly interdicted ; as well as all fluids stronger than that which lays dust ; but the ' feast of reason and the ...
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... the sun of the Reformation was high up in its zenith ; and from this fact , as well as from the splendor of his productions , he has been considered the repre- sentative of the revival of letters and the poet - Author - Craft . 29.
... the sun of the Reformation was high up in its zenith ; and from this fact , as well as from the splendor of his productions , he has been considered the repre- sentative of the revival of letters and the poet - Author - Craft . 29.
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Page 409 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 124 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Page 173 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 131 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 31 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 268 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 346 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days...
Page 126 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 407 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 196 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.