A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of EnjoymentLeigh Hunt J.P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... it in his garden ; Horace and Virgil expressed their desire of it in passages which the sympathy of man- kind has rendered immortal . It was the end of all the wisdom and experience of Shakspeare . He retired to his INTRODUCTION . 11.
... it in his garden ; Horace and Virgil expressed their desire of it in passages which the sympathy of man- kind has rendered immortal . It was the end of all the wisdom and experience of Shakspeare . He retired to his INTRODUCTION . 11.
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... desire to feel and know . The greatest use of genius is but to sub- serve to that end ; to further the means of enjoying it , and to freshen and keep it pure ; as the winds and thunders , which come rarely , are purifiers of the sweet ...
... desire to feel and know . The greatest use of genius is but to sub- serve to that end ; to further the means of enjoying it , and to freshen and keep it pure ; as the winds and thunders , which come rarely , are purifiers of the sweet ...
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... desire of finishing the adventure , he returned to the porch ; and working up his soul to a full steadiness of resolution , he drew forth his sword with one hand , and with the other lifted up the latch of the gate . The heavy door ...
... desire of finishing the adventure , he returned to the porch ; and working up his soul to a full steadiness of resolution , he drew forth his sword with one hand , and with the other lifted up the latch of the gate . The heavy door ...
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... desire what to - morrow we fear , nay , even tremble at the apprehensions of . This was ex- emplified in me at this time in the most lively manner imaginable ; for I , whose only affliction was , that I seemed banished from human ...
... desire what to - morrow we fear , nay , even tremble at the apprehensions of . This was ex- emplified in me at this time in the most lively manner imaginable ; for I , whose only affliction was , that I seemed banished from human ...
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... desire to fly ! We do so in dreams : we all long for the power when children : we think of it in poetry and in sorrow . " Oh that I had the wings of a dove ! then would I fly away and be at rest . ” Wilkins fled away into a beautiful ...
... desire to fly ! We do so in dreams : we all long for the power when children : we think of it in poetry and in sorrow . " Oh that I had the wings of a dove ! then would I fly away and be at rest . ” Wilkins fled away into a beautiful ...
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admiration agreeable appeared beautiful began better boat Bougainville called carts castle charming Chiswick House club Comanians delight desert of Lop door eyes fancy father fear fire Foulahs garden gave gentleman Gil Blas give ground hand happy hear heard heart heaven hill horse Jack Bruce Joseph Andrews kind knew Kooma Kubla Khan lady lived look lord Ludovico Marco Polo master mind morning MUNGO PARK nature never night o'er observed parterres passage passed person pleased pleasure poet poor Prester John reader retired Robert Bage Rubruquis seemed seen servants ship shore side Sir Roger sleep Solander soon sort spirit stood story sweet Tartars taste Tatler tell things thought tion told took travellers trees turn village walk wind wood word young youth
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Seite 46 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Seite 29 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Seite 167 - And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Seite 166 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Seite 226 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.
Seite 137 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?
Seite 167 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Seite 226 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Seite 164 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Seite 17 - Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.