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... remember is where he writes ( as Lamb would have written ) to Wal- pole suffering with the gout : " The pain in your feet I can bear . " He has the knack of saying droll things in an off - hand way , and as if they cost him nothing . It ...
... remember is where he writes ( as Lamb would have written ) to Wal- pole suffering with the gout : " The pain in your feet I can bear . " He has the knack of saying droll things in an off - hand way , and as if they cost him nothing . It ...
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... remember Mr. Cambridge's account of it before it came out ? How well he recollected all the faults , and how utterly he forgot all the beauties ? Surely the grossest taste is better than such a sort of delicacy . " " I think even a bad ...
... remember Mr. Cambridge's account of it before it came out ? How well he recollected all the faults , and how utterly he forgot all the beauties ? Surely the grossest taste is better than such a sort of delicacy . " " I think even a bad ...
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... Remember Dryden , and be blind to all his faults . " To Mason he writes : " All I can say is that your ' Elegy ' must not end with the worst line in it ; it is flat , it is prose ; whereas that , above all , ought to sparkle , or at ...
... Remember Dryden , and be blind to all his faults . " To Mason he writes : " All I can say is that your ' Elegy ' must not end with the worst line in it ; it is flat , it is prose ; whereas that , above all , ought to sparkle , or at ...
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... remember ; why , though he wrote so little , so much of what he wrote is fa- miliar on men's tongues . There are certain plants that have seeds with hooks by which they cling to any passing animal and impress his legs into the service ...
... remember ; why , though he wrote so little , so much of what he wrote is fa- miliar on men's tongues . There are certain plants that have seeds with hooks by which they cling to any passing animal and impress his legs into the service ...
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... remember hear- ing Emerson say some thirty years ago , that he valued Gray chiefly as a comment on Pindar . Gray himself seems to have kept his balance very well ; indeed , it may be conjectured that he knew the shortcomings of his work ...
... remember hear- ing Emerson say some thirty years ago , that he valued Gray chiefly as a comment on Pindar . Gray himself seems to have kept his balance very well ; indeed , it may be conjectured that he knew the shortcomings of his work ...
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Seite 182 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 207 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can...
Seite 187 - Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Seite 211 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Seite 88 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Seite 293 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Seite 42 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain.
Seite 221 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.
Seite 208 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Seite 312 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.