Prose and Verse, Volúmenes1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... English classics . How he was great is a ques- tion which will not be fully answered till his Life , his Cor- respondence , his Complete Writings - his Poetical works especially - have been given to the world . and great men among his ...
... English classics . How he was great is a ques- tion which will not be fully answered till his Life , his Cor- respondence , his Complete Writings - his Poetical works especially - have been given to the world . and great men among his ...
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... English gram- mar , to bore all my parents , relations , friends , and acquaintance , by a pedantical mending of their “ cakeology . ” Such was the sum total of my acquirements ; being , probably , quite as much as I should have learned ...
... English gram- mar , to bore all my parents , relations , friends , and acquaintance , by a pedantical mending of their “ cakeology . ” Such was the sum total of my acquirements ; being , probably , quite as much as I should have learned ...
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... English Grammarian , and so good a French scholar , that I earned a few guineas my first literary fee - by revising a new edition of " Paul et Virginie " for the press . Moreover , as an accountant , I could work a summum bonum ― i . e ...
... English Grammarian , and so good a French scholar , that I earned a few guineas my first literary fee - by revising a new edition of " Paul et Virginie " for the press . Moreover , as an accountant , I could work a summum bonum ― i . e ...
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... English associations , that it would seem rather to unite me to than sever me from my native island . And , truly , when I did at last stand on the brink of the dark blue sea , my home - sick wishes seemed already half fulfilled , and ...
... English associations , that it would seem rather to unite me to than sever me from my native island . And , truly , when I did at last stand on the brink of the dark blue sea , my home - sick wishes seemed already half fulfilled , and ...
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... English laddie , in- stead of supping parritch , would inevitably require a rump- steak to his breakfast ! My next essay was more successful ; and ended in my being regularly installed in a boarding - house , kept by a Scotchwoman , who ...
... English laddie , in- stead of supping parritch , would inevitably require a rump- steak to his breakfast ! My next essay was more successful ; and ended in my being regularly installed in a boarding - house , kept by a Scotchwoman , who ...
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Página 34 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, — But now 'tis little joy: To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy ! THOMAS HOOD.
Página 34 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! T remember.
Página 26 - Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Página 26 - All night I lay in agony, From weary chime to chime; With one besetting horrid hint That racked me all the time — A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime — "One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave! Stronger and stronger every pulse Did that temptation crave — Still urging me to go and see The dead man in his grave!
Página 23 - And, long since then, of bloody men Whose deeds tradition saves; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ; Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod...
Página 210 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Página 209 - The wounds I might have healed ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Página 134 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! PART III.
Página 180 - Ines" had always, for me, an inexpressible charm: O saw ye not fair Ines! She's gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down, And rob the world of rest...