The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Band 2Smith, Elder, 1850 |
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... never affected any formal virtues in private ; but when I consider all the nonsense and extrava- gance of those assumptions - all the harm they must have done me in discerning eyes , and all the reason- able amount of resentment which ...
... never affected any formal virtues in private ; but when I consider all the nonsense and extrava- gance of those assumptions - all the harm they must have done me in discerning eyes , and all the reason- able amount of resentment which ...
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... never could love them as a writer . It was against the grain that I was encouraged to begin them ; and against the grain I ever afterwards sat down to write , except when the subject was of a very general description , and I could ...
... never could love them as a writer . It was against the grain that I was encouraged to begin them ; and against the grain I ever afterwards sat down to write , except when the subject was of a very general description , and I could ...
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... never exchanged a word with ; and Cobbett and Henry Hunt ( no relation of ours ) we never beheld ; -never so much as saw their faces . I was never even at a public dinner ; nor do I believe my brother was . We had absolutely no views ...
... never exchanged a word with ; and Cobbett and Henry Hunt ( no relation of ours ) we never beheld ; -never so much as saw their faces . I was never even at a public dinner ; nor do I believe my brother was . We had absolutely no views ...
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... never complained . I think of him and of some needy dramatist , and wish they had been worse men . The Examiner commenced at the time when Bona- parte was at the height of his power . He had the continent at his feet ; and three of his ...
... never complained . I think of him and of some needy dramatist , and wish they had been worse men . The Examiner commenced at the time when Bona- parte was at the height of his power . He had the continent at his feet ; and three of his ...
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... never to this day pass one , even of a kind the most unreformed , without a wish to go into it and join my fellow - creatures in their affecting So RELIGIOUS VIEWS . 13 evidence of the necessity of an 12 LIFE OF LEIGH HUNT .
... never to this day pass one , even of a kind the most unreformed , without a wish to go into it and join my fellow - creatures in their affecting So RELIGIOUS VIEWS . 13 evidence of the necessity of an 12 LIFE OF LEIGH HUNT .
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Seite 113 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Seite 196 - For Heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Seite 14 - That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song...
Seite 283 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let them forth By my so potent art.
Seite 208 - But opposite in levelled west was set, His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him ; for other light she needed none In that aspect, and still that distance keeps Till night ; then in the east her turn she shines...
Seite 126 - Adonis in loveliness,' was a corpulent man of fifty, in short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity.
Seite 194 - He rose early in the morning, walked and read before breakfast, took that meal sparingly, wrote and studied the greater part of the morning, walked and read again, dined on vegetables, (for he took neither meat nor wine,) conversed with his friends, (to whom his house was ever open,) again walked out, and usually finished with reading to his wife till ten o'clock, when he went to bed. This was his daily existence. His book was generally Plato or Homer, or one of the Greek tragedians, or the Bible,...
Seite 33 - I am afraid he must think me a strange fellow : but is it not odd, that the only truly generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker ! And he writes poetry too,
Seite 126 - PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
Seite 113 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ? " I would not slight this wondrous world.