The Autobiography of William Jerdan: With His Literary, Political and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence During the Last Fifty Years, Band 4A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1853 |
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... CRITICS - T . HOOD - MRS . WHEELER- LADY BULWER - LYTTON PROFITS • ― MR . DISRAELI - · PUBLISHERS ' Page 168 190 XII.-G. P. R. JAMES- JOHN CARNE - J . BARTLETT - GASTRO- NOMIC ECONOMIES - DELUSIONS IN LITERARY SUCCESS -EMBARRASSING ...
... CRITICS - T . HOOD - MRS . WHEELER- LADY BULWER - LYTTON PROFITS • ― MR . DISRAELI - · PUBLISHERS ' Page 168 190 XII.-G. P. R. JAMES- JOHN CARNE - J . BARTLETT - GASTRO- NOMIC ECONOMIES - DELUSIONS IN LITERARY SUCCESS -EMBARRASSING ...
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... critic can always be wise , I have but little doubt but works which pass through my hands will , on the average , sell equally the same , whether noticed in a kind or wanton manner by that journal . 6 " Having considerable power in ...
... critic can always be wise , I have but little doubt but works which pass through my hands will , on the average , sell equally the same , whether noticed in a kind or wanton manner by that journal . 6 " Having considerable power in ...
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... critic , fancying himself really a - top of his profession , must flatter himself that he is a wiser and a better man than the author upon whom he pronounces judgment . The Samo - Thracian Aristarchus alone could be his prototype ; and ...
... critic , fancying himself really a - top of his profession , must flatter himself that he is a wiser and a better man than the author upon whom he pronounces judgment . The Samo - Thracian Aristarchus alone could be his prototype ; and ...
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... critic also connected with the press , treated me and my work either with damning , faint praise , or careless neglect . Slight as my merits may be , they ought never to have missed an occasion on which they might honourably and justly ...
... critic also connected with the press , treated me and my work either with damning , faint praise , or careless neglect . Slight as my merits may be , they ought never to have missed an occasion on which they might honourably and justly ...
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... critics , who have so justly censured my poor work for its want of sequent con- nection . But fifty years of literary life , mixed up with " all the world , " defies system . Of the fair sex George was a fervent admirer , and embodied ...
... critics , who have so justly censured my poor work for its want of sequent con- nection . But fifty years of literary life , mixed up with " all the world , " defies system . Of the fair sex George was a fervent admirer , and embodied ...
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Seite 46 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Seite 61 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Seite 351 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Seite 81 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 168 - Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow; Farewell to the straths and green valleys below ; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods; Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
Seite 19 - Word from the Greek, Latin, Saxon, German, Teutonic, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other Languages ; with their present Acceptation and Pronunciation.
Seite 129 - ... forlorn creek: We all pearls scorn, Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass: And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest silent groves ! Oh may you be For ever Mirth's best nursery!
Seite 51 - All my past life is mine no more, The flying hours are gone; Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not ; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot, And that as fast as it is got, Phyllis, is only thine.
Seite 15 - METEYARD'S (ELIZA) DOCTOR'S LITTLE DAUGHTER. The Story of a Child's Life amidst the Woods and Hills. With numerous Illustrations by HARVEY. Foolscap, cloth, gilt edges, 7s.
Seite 65 - Do what I may, go where I will, Thou meet'st my sight ; There dost thou glide before me still, A form of light ! I feel thy breath upon my cheek, — I see thee smile, I hear thee speak, — Till, oh ! my heart is like to break, Casa Wappy ! Methinks thou smil'st before me now, With glance of stealth ; The hair thrown back from thy full brow In buoyant health ; I see thine eyes...