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Page 178 - Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : — But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in ! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin, Ay, there, look grim as hell ! Des.
Page 193 - I give the matter just as it comes to hand—adhering with strictness even to the punctuation.—Editor. papers. From this laborious but useful drudgery he was promoted to purveyor of theatrical critiques, and other occasional paragraphs; in which his power of thought and of style soon shone out in a manner not a little marvellous in the eyes of those who had hitherto looked to the Morning Post for their beau-ideal of such matters. There can be little doubt that we owe almost entirely to him the...
Page 20 - T were now to be most happy ; for, I fear My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 192 - ... it is almost as difficult to copy as to rival. But though no one else was dis-satisfied with the progress he made in Painting, he himself was. He did not see why he should be inferior to any man; and when he found that he was so, he threw up his pencil in disgust, and has never touched it since.
Page 289 - Many a time have we gone through it; slowly tilting over a pretty blue lake, there, among the hills; our birch canoe dipping, with every motion of the paddle—the waters beneath us—all the mountains about—all—unknown to the world ; in a solitude—a quiet—profound as death—and bright as heaven ; the shores overhung with a superb autumnal foliage ; and a sky so wonderful—so visionary—that all the clouds, and all the mountains were of a piece, in the clear water ; and our boat was like...
Page 306 - Wherefore, it would be no easy matter for a person travelling, to persuade a full-blooded republican ' driver,' that a keg of gunpowder—and a live pig—with warming pans—cod fish, broad axes, and hollow ware, —paid for inside, were not fit company for half a score of human beings, paid for, inside—with lighted pipes."—Vol. II. pp. 40—68. Nothing in its way can be more admirable than this whole description of the boy's travel in the
Page 290 - ... flower; and all at once. Other countries are in a better state of cultivation. Their trees are less numerous ; their wild shrubbery, less like a vegetable inundation over the land — covering every foot of the earth ; or the changes of their colour, from season to season, are slow and gradual. It is not so, in America — North America. There, the transformation is universal — instantaneous. A single night will do it. In the evening of a fine day, perhaps, all the great woods will be green...
Page 297 - There were nine live passengers aboard ; with a great heap of rubbish ; and a large dead hog. Eight of the former, were human beings; the ninth, a sucking pig. Walter, unhappily for him, was rigged out, in all his go-to-meetin...
Page 298 - ... upon whatever they came near ; a pair of huge buckles in them, too;—his hair gathered in a club, and bound up, with a piece of sky-blue ' worsted ribbon;' a large, bright, silver brooch, firmly skewered into the bosom of a coarse, clean, good-looking shirt,—which it held, as it were, by the teeth — so that his white skin was visible above, and below it. His look was that of a lubberly country boy;—a 'jinooine...
Page 294 - I guess — for sich a whelp,' said one of his neighbours. ' I never heard nothin' like, it afore.' " ' Nor I' — said another — ' in all my life : ony once — tell ye how that was, though. One day, our Towzle — he fit a painter; — well — and so, the painter, he smacks him thro...