Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1Richard Bentley, 1857 |
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... never have existed . It has been to me throughout a source of great gratifi- cation . As I wrote line after line of our fine old Poets , many a cherished scene and many a happy hour seemed to live again in my memory and my heart . But ...
... never have existed . It has been to me throughout a source of great gratifi- cation . As I wrote line after line of our fine old Poets , many a cherished scene and many a happy hour seemed to live again in my memory and my heart . But ...
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... NEVER take up these three heavily - bound volumes , the actual first edition , at which Dr. Johnson was wont to scoff , without feeling a pleasure quite apart . from that excited by the charming book itself ; although to that book , far ...
... NEVER take up these three heavily - bound volumes , the actual first edition , at which Dr. Johnson was wont to scoff , without feeling a pleasure quite apart . from that excited by the charming book itself ; although to that book , far ...
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... never see that heavily - bound copy of " Percy's Reliques " without the home of my infancy springing up before my eyes . A pleasant home , in truth , it was . A large house in a little town of the north of Hampshire , -a town , so small ...
... never see that heavily - bound copy of " Percy's Reliques " without the home of my infancy springing up before my eyes . A pleasant home , in truth , it was . A large house in a little town of the north of Hampshire , -a town , so small ...
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... never troubled us . I hope it will not trouble my readers . We , a little child , and a young country maiden , the daughter of a respectable Hamp- shire farmer , were no bad representatives in point of cultivation of the noble dames and ...
... never troubled us . I hope it will not trouble my readers . We , a little child , and a young country maiden , the daughter of a respectable Hamp- shire farmer , were no bad representatives in point of cultivation of the noble dames and ...
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... never written a line of verse in his life , and was , indeed , far less sanguine than his coadjutors in the success of the experiment . How completely he suc- ceeded there is no need to tell , although nearly all that he has written was ...
... never written a line of verse in his life , and was , indeed , far less sanguine than his coadjutors in the success of the experiment . How completely he suc- ceeded there is no need to tell , although nearly all that he has written was ...
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Page 325 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 319 - Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep> Seated in thy silver chair State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st...
Page 86 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Page 262 - Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Page 237 - for Aix is in sight ! " "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 311 - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder; no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe! Ah!
Page 80 - Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint old town of toil and traffic, quaint old town of art and song, Memories haunt thy pointed gables like the rooks that round them throng : Memories of the Middle Ages, when the emperors, rough and bold, Had their dwelling in thy castle, time-defying, centuries old ; And thy brave and thrifty burghers boasted, in their uncouth rhyme, That their great imperial city stretched its hand...
Page 262 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 192 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring! As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.
Page 234 - Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have...