Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... fact , every body . He became much attached to the Hoares , of Hampstead , and used to take up his quarters there , and with them make summer excursions to Hastings , the isle of Wight , and the like places . With them he saw Miss ...
... fact , every body . He became much attached to the Hoares , of Hampstead , and used to take up his quarters there , and with them make summer excursions to Hastings , the isle of Wight , and the like places . With them he saw Miss ...
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... fact , there are few things which I like better ; it is so delightful to call up old reminiscences . Often have I been laughed at for what an Edinburgh editor styles my good - natured egotism , which is sometimes any thing but that ...
... fact , there are few things which I like better ; it is so delightful to call up old reminiscences . Often have I been laughed at for what an Edinburgh editor styles my good - natured egotism , which is sometimes any thing but that ...
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... fact , mentioned some time ago , in Cham- bers ' Journal , but which was witnessed by myself . I was in an eminent publisher's , when the principal addressed the head clerk thus : - Principal . " Mr. VOL . II . - C wishes to open an ...
... fact , mentioned some time ago , in Cham- bers ' Journal , but which was witnessed by myself . I was in an eminent publisher's , when the principal addressed the head clerk thus : - Principal . " Mr. VOL . II . - C wishes to open an ...
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... fact , I was seven hours and a half , between Moffat and Ettrick kirk , on foot . Down , down , down I went for eight weary miles , one long descent , with nothing on either hand but those monotonous green mountains which extend all ...
... fact , I was seven hours and a half , between Moffat and Ettrick kirk , on foot . Down , down , down I went for eight weary miles , one long descent , with nothing on either hand but those monotonous green mountains which extend all ...
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... fact , that neither in Scotland nor Ireland do you find those richly finished old parish churches that you do in England . This is signifi- cant of the ancient state of these countries . Catholic though they all were , neither Scotland ...
... fact , that neither in Scotland nor Ireland do you find those richly finished old parish churches that you do in England . This is signifi- cant of the ancient state of these countries . Catholic though they all were , neither Scotland ...
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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...