Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volumen 2W.H. Allen & Company, 1840 |
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... ENGLISH LANGUAGE , ON THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY , VERSE . THE RETURN FROM EXILE , · STANZAS - YES , I HAVE LOVED AND HONORED THEE , SONNETS - WRITTEN IN EXILE , SONNET - WRITTEN IN A LADY'S ALBUM , SONNET - ON TWO LOVERS , NOON - WRITTEN ...
... ENGLISH LANGUAGE , ON THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY , VERSE . THE RETURN FROM EXILE , · STANZAS - YES , I HAVE LOVED AND HONORED THEE , SONNETS - WRITTEN IN EXILE , SONNET - WRITTEN IN A LADY'S ALBUM , SONNET - ON TWO LOVERS , NOON - WRITTEN ...
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... English language , since Milton , has produced several perfect specimens of the force and unity of this species of composition . I content myself with adducing one beautiful example . SONNET . COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE . EARTH has ...
... English language , since Milton , has produced several perfect specimens of the force and unity of this species of composition . I content myself with adducing one beautiful example . SONNET . COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE . EARTH has ...
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... English versification before the time of Waller and Pope is worse than foolish . It was disgraceful in a writer who set himself up as the historian of poetry and poets , to pass over the age of Shakespeare in the way he has done . I ...
... English versification before the time of Waller and Pope is worse than foolish . It was disgraceful in a writer who set himself up as the historian of poetry and poets , to pass over the age of Shakespeare in the way he has done . I ...
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... English poets , that his remarkable personal bravery , his many and strange duels , and the numerous striking circumstances of his life are in no instance in the slightest degree alluded to , though one would think that they must ...
... English poets , that his remarkable personal bravery , his many and strange duels , and the numerous striking circumstances of his life are in no instance in the slightest degree alluded to , though one would think that they must ...
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... English land but burning tears would start ; The faces of familiar friends would haunt me in my sleep , I clasped their thrilling hands in mine - then woke again to weep ! II . At last my spirit's fevered dreams so wrought upon my frame ...
... English land but burning tears would start ; The faces of familiar friends would haunt me in my sleep , I clasped their thrilling hands in mine - then woke again to weep ! II . At last my spirit's fevered dreams so wrought upon my frame ...
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Addison admiration amongst Anna Seward appears beauty Ben Jonson breathe Byron Campbell character charm critic delight diction Don Quixote dramatic dreams Drummond Dryden English English language excellence exquisite Falstaff fame fancy feeling genius Grongar Hill hath Hazlitt heart human humour Iago imagination imitation India intellectual Italian Johnson language Leigh Hunt less literary literature living look Lord Lord Byron Massinger merit Milton mind Moore moral Muse nature never noble o'er object observed Othello passages passion perhaps Petrarch poems poet poet's poetical poetry Pope popular praise prose racter reader remarkable respect rhymes Roger de Coverley Sancho Sancho Panza says scene seems sense Shakespeare Shylock Sir Roger sonnets soul speak spirit stanza strange style sweet taste thee thine thing Thomas Moore thou thought tion Tory true truth uncle Toby verse vulgar words Wordsworth writer written
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Página 193 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 14 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 191 - Tis not to make me jealous, To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ; I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; And, on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy!
Página 10 - ... this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Página 11 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell...
Página 218 - I do remember him at Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring : when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife...
Página 190 - I'd make a life of jealousy ; To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions ? No ! to be once in doubt, Is once to be resolved.
Página 27 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But, out, alack!
Página 226 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if, by chance, he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Página 27 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.