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 Genera; Introduction, Band 1G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... , especially when they are such as have comforted and delighted him throughout his own life , and are for that reason recom- mended by him to others . 1 CONTENTS OF FIRST SERIES . PAGE NATURE OF THE PRESENT 6 PREFACE .
... , especially when they are such as have comforted and delighted him throughout his own life , and are for that reason recom- mended by him to others . 1 CONTENTS OF FIRST SERIES . PAGE NATURE OF THE PRESENT 6 PREFACE .
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... DELIGHTS OF BOOKS OF TRAVEL Wandering Tartars and their Chief Zagatai , in the Thir- teenth Century . Passage of the Desert of Lop . Kubla Khan • Thomas Amory . 137 149 • William de Rubruquis . 154 Marco Polo . 162 66 66 164 " " 66 165 ...
... DELIGHTS OF BOOKS OF TRAVEL Wandering Tartars and their Chief Zagatai , in the Thir- teenth Century . Passage of the Desert of Lop . Kubla Khan • Thomas Amory . 137 149 • William de Rubruquis . 154 Marco Polo . 162 66 66 164 " " 66 165 ...
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... DELIGHTS OF BOOKS OF TRAVEL - Continued . How Prester John burnt up his Enemy's Men and Horses Praise of Women . Bed in the Desert . • • • First Sight of the Niger Kindness of a Woman to him , and a Song • over his Distress He passes a ...
... DELIGHTS OF BOOKS OF TRAVEL - Continued . How Prester John burnt up his Enemy's Men and Horses Praise of Women . Bed in the Desert . • • • First Sight of the Niger Kindness of a Woman to him , and a Song • over his Distress He passes a ...
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... delighted reason to every sen- tence in Mrs. Barbauld's Essay ; will feel himself wan- dering into solitudes with Gray ; shake honest hands with Sir Roger de Coverley ; be ready to embrace Parson Adams , and to chuck Pounce out of ...
... delighted reason to every sen- tence in Mrs. Barbauld's Essay ; will feel himself wan- dering into solitudes with Gray ; shake honest hands with Sir Roger de Coverley ; be ready to embrace Parson Adams , and to chuck Pounce out of ...
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... that of a noble and ever - fresh companion , whose society we can the less dispense with , the more we are accustomed to it . The book in this respect resembles a set of pictures which it delights us to live 24 INTRODUCTION .
... that of a noble and ever - fresh companion , whose society we can the less dispense with , the more we are accustomed to it . The book in this respect resembles a set of pictures which it delights us to live 24 INTRODUCTION .
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admiration agreeable Anne's Hill appeared baron beautiful better boat called castle chamber charming Chiswick House club count delight desert of Lop door Epicurus Eton College eyes fancy father fear feel fire garden gave gentleman Gil Blas give Gray ground hand happy head hear heard heart Heaven hill horse hour Jack Bruce kind knew lady light lived look lord Ludovico Marco Marco Polo master mind morning MUNGO PARK nature never night o'er observed Oudon passages passed person pleased pleasure poet Prester John reader retired returned Robert Bage Roger de Coverley Rubruquis 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 turn village voice walk wind wood young youth
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Seite 48 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Seite 170 - 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 ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair, Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Seite 95 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Seite 31 - 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 168 - 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 227 - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon...
Seite 179 - Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep...
Seite 226 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Seite 226 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...