A Book for a Corner; Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of Enjoyment: With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction, Bände 1-2Leigh Hunt G.P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... sense of business , whether his business be that of the world or of himself , has a respect for all right things apart from it ; because business with him is not a mindless and merely instinctive industry , like that of a beetle rolling ...
... sense of business , whether his business be that of the world or of himself , has a respect for all right things apart from it ; because business with him is not a mindless and merely instinctive industry , like that of a beetle rolling ...
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... sense of it . De Retz , like Burke and Fox , was a lover of books . Sir Robert Walpole , who retired only to be sick and to die , did not care for books Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment ; and he who cannot read , or ...
... sense of it . De Retz , like Burke and Fox , was a lover of books . Sir Robert Walpole , who retired only to be sick and to die , did not care for books Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment ; and he who cannot read , or ...
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... sense of his igno- rance ; nay , languages which , if they can do nothing else , amuse his eye and set him thinking of other countries . He will detect old acquaintances in Arabic numerals , and puzzle over a sum or a problem , if only ...
... sense of his igno- rance ; nay , languages which , if they can do nothing else , amuse his eye and set him thinking of other countries . He will detect old acquaintances in Arabic numerals , and puzzle over a sum or a problem , if only ...
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... sense of the word ; but it has the best in the greatest sense ; that is to say , never - dying novelty ; —antiquity hung with ivy - blossoms and rose - buds ; old friends with the ever- new faces of wit , thought , and affection . Time ...
... sense of the word ; but it has the best in the greatest sense ; that is to say , never - dying novelty ; —antiquity hung with ivy - blossoms and rose - buds ; old friends with the ever- new faces of wit , thought , and affection . Time ...
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... . E'en in a bishop I can spy desert ; Secker is decent , Rundle has a heart . we are to understand the word in its classical sense of the seeds of jealousy and emulation as early as possible 28 LETTER TO A NEW - BORN CHILD .
... . E'en in a bishop I can spy desert ; Secker is decent , Rundle has a heart . we are to understand the word in its classical sense of the seeds of jealousy and emulation as early as possible 28 LETTER TO A NEW - BORN CHILD .
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admiration agreeable Anne's Hill appeared baron beautiful better boat called carts castle chamber charming Chiswick House club Comanians count delight desert of Lop door Eton College eyes fancy father fear fire garden gave gentleman Gil Blas give ground hand happy hear heard heart Heaven hill horse hour Jack Bruce Khan kind knew Kubla Kubla Khan ladies lived look lord Ludovico Marco Polo master mind MUNGO PARK nature never night nomade rovers o'er observed passages passed person pleased pleasure poet Prester John reader retired returned Robert Bage Sartach seemed seen servants shore side Sillery Sir Roger sleep sort spirit stood story sweet Tartars taste Tatler tell things thought tion told took travellers trees village voice walk William de Rubruquis wind wood word young youth
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Seite 167 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Seite 135 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow ; As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe; And, redolent of Joy and Youth, To breathe a second Spring!
Seite 221 - How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 224 - 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 gained from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd), a friend.
Seite 27 - 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 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. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
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 223 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Seite 148 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Seite 152 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion. This authority of the knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life, has a very good effect upon the parish, who are not polite enough to see anything...