Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... London as a literary adventurer . With £ 5 in his pocket , a present for the purpose , from Dudley North , brother to the candidate for Aldborough , he took his pas- sage in a sloop for town . In thinking of Crabbe , we generally ...
... London as a literary adventurer . With £ 5 in his pocket , a present for the purpose , from Dudley North , brother to the candidate for Aldborough , he took his pas- sage in a sloop for town . In thinking of Crabbe , we generally ...
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... London . His fame , especially after the publication of The Borough , was established . His power of painting human life and character , the bold and faithful pencil with which he did this , the true sympathies with the poor and ...
... London . His fame , especially after the publication of The Borough , was established . His power of painting human life and character , the bold and faithful pencil with which he did this , the true sympathies with the poor and ...
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... London , has a mean , huddled , and unattractive aspect . The coun- try round is a good dairy country , but is not by any means striking . Crabbe , however , found there families of intelli- gence and great kindness . His sons married ...
... London , has a mean , huddled , and unattractive aspect . The coun- try round is a good dairy country , but is not by any means striking . Crabbe , however , found there families of intelli- gence and great kindness . His sons married ...
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... London critic had , in malice of heart , preserved a copy , and quoted liberally out of it last year , to my intense chagrin and mortification ; " i . e . , while Hogg was , but four years before his death , lionizing in London . His ...
... London critic had , in malice of heart , preserved a copy , and quoted liberally out of it last year , to my intense chagrin and mortification ; " i . e . , while Hogg was , but four years before his death , lionizing in London . His ...
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... London , I was quite amazed to find him so smooth , well - looking , and gentlemanly a sort of person . There are many truths which James Hogg in his honest candor speaks out , that not one author in a thousand , stand as high and as ...
... London , I was quite amazed to find him so smooth , well - looking , and gentlemanly a sort of person . There are many truths which James Hogg in his honest candor speaks out , that not one author in a thousand , stand as high and as ...
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Página 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Página 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Página 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Página 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Página 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Página 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...