Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 58
Page 37
... praise from him . There is no danger from me of my offending him in that kind ; neither my mind , nor my body , nor my fortune , allow me any materials for that vanity . " As far as my memory can return back into A LITERARY LIFE . 37.
... praise from him . There is no danger from me of my offending him in that kind ; neither my mind , nor my body , nor my fortune , allow me any materials for that vanity . " As far as my memory can return back into A LITERARY LIFE . 37.
Page 40
... praise , Which neglected verse doth raise . However , by the failing of the forces which I had expected , I did not quit the design which I had resolved on . I cast myself into it a corps perdu without making capitulations , or taking ...
... praise , Which neglected verse doth raise . However , by the failing of the forces which I had expected , I did not quit the design which I had resolved on . I cast myself into it a corps perdu without making capitulations , or taking ...
Page 45
... praises , so it might have been too for his conquests , if the short time of his human life could have been stretched out to the extent of his immortal design . " Such is Cowley as a prose writer . And yet one of the most accomplished ...
... praises , so it might have been too for his conquests , if the short time of his human life could have been stretched out to the extent of his immortal design . " Such is Cowley as a prose writer . And yet one of the most accomplished ...
Page 64
... praise . Everywhere I see around me rise the wondrous world of art— Fountains wrought with richest sculpture standing in the common mart ; And above cathedral doorways , saints and bishops carved in stone , By a former age commissioned ...
... praise . Everywhere I see around me rise the wondrous world of art— Fountains wrought with richest sculpture standing in the common mart ; And above cathedral doorways , saints and bishops carved in stone , By a former age commissioned ...
Page 76
... praises had been heard by them all . * * * * 6 * " Horses , generally speaking , are of a generous and kindly nature . Of their friendly disposition toward their keepers , there is a trait known to every boy who has the care of one of ...
... praises had been heard by them all . * * * * 6 * " Horses , generally speaking , are of a generous and kindly nature . Of their friendly disposition toward their keepers , there is a trait known to every boy who has the care of one of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable ballads beauty Ben Jonson bird Bonny Dundee Bradshaigh bright brother called charming dear death delight doth EACUS English EURIPIDES eyes fair father fear feeling flowers Gelert gentlemen Gerald Griffin give Goodere grace hand happy hath hear heard heart Hepzibah honor horse Joanna Baillie John Banim John Clare kind King Klopstock knew Kyng lady laughed letters light live look Lord Mahony maid mignonette Molière morning murder never night noble o'er once Pan is dead passed person pleasure poems poet poetry poor praise round SACK OF BALTIMORE scene seemed sing smile Soggarth aroon song spirit story sweet tears tell thee There's thing thou thought took trees Twas Ufton Court verse walk wild Winthrop Mackworth Praed wirra-sthru wonder words write wyfe XANTHIAS young youth
Popular passages
Page 548 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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 320 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 431 - Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other? Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home she had none.
Page 428 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 396 - Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God!
Page 320 - Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 319 - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 397 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows , simple wiles , Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 317 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.