Yesterdays with AuthorsJ. R. Osgood, 1872 - Počet stran: 352 |
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... English literature is full of eulogistic mention of Pope . Thackeray is one of the last great authors who has spoken golden words about the poet . " Let us always take into account , " he says , " that constant tenderness and fidelity ...
... English literature is full of eulogistic mention of Pope . Thackeray is one of the last great authors who has spoken golden words about the poet . " Let us always take into account , " he says , " that constant tenderness and fidelity ...
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... English much higher grasp and melody of language from more passionate minds , but you have nothing else , in its range , so perfect . I name , therefore , these two men , because they are the two most accomplished artists , merely as ...
... English much higher grasp and melody of language from more passionate minds , but you have nothing else , in its range , so perfect . I name , therefore , these two men , because they are the two most accomplished artists , merely as ...
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... English poet : - " The natural history of Pope is very simple : delicate persons , it has been said , are unhappy , and he was doubly delicate , delicate of mind , delicate and infirm of body ; he was doubly irritable . But what grace ...
... English poet : - " The natural history of Pope is very simple : delicate persons , it has been said , are unhappy , and he was doubly delicate , delicate of mind , delicate and infirm of body ; he was doubly irritable . But what grace ...
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... English men of genius present ! Thackeray's great burly figure , broad - chested , and ample as the day , seems to overshadow and quite blot out of existence the author of " The Essay on Man . " But what friends they would have been had ...
... English men of genius present ! Thackeray's great burly figure , broad - chested , and ample as the day , seems to overshadow and quite blot out of existence the author of " The Essay on Man . " But what friends they would have been had ...
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James Thomas Fields. read his series of lectures on " The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century , " and when I talked the matter over with some of his friends at the little Garrick Club , they all said he could never be induced to ...
James Thomas Fields. read his series of lectures on " The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century , " and when I talked the matter over with some of his friends at the little Garrick Club , they all said he could never be induced to ...
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Strana 261 - 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 : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Strana 249 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Strana 115 - I am not quite up to writing yet, but shall make an effort as soon as I see any hope of success. You ought to be thankful that (like most other broken-down authors) I do not pester you with decrepit pages, and insist upon your accepting them as full of the old spirit and vigor. That trouble, perhaps, still awaits you, after I shall have reached a further stage of decay. Seriously, my mind has, for the present, lost its temper and its fine edge, and I have an instinct that I had better keep quiet....
Strana 63 - They precisely suit my taste, — solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump of earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of.
Strana 7 - I wish you also to remember these lines of Pope, and to make yourselves entirely masters of his system of ethics ; because, putting Shakespeare aside as rather the world's than ours, I hold Pope to be the most perfect representative we have, since Chaucer, of the true English mind ; and I think the Dunciad is the most absolutely chiselled and monumental work ' exacted ' in our country. You will find, as you study Pope, that he has expressed for you, in the strictest language and within the briefest...
Strana 109 - I wish God had given me the faculty of writing a sunshiny book." I invited him to come to Boston and have a cheerful week among his old friends, and threw in as an inducement a hint that he should hear the great organ in the Music Hall. I also suggested that we could talk over the new Romance together, if he would gladden us all by coming to the city. Instead of coming, he sent this reply : — " I thank you for your kind invitation to hear the grand...
Strana 124 - I only hear above his place of rest Their tender undertone, The infinite longings of a troubled breast, The voice so like his own. There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah ! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain ? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain ! CHRISTMAS BELLS.
Strana 71 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Strana 36 - We cannot resist here recalling one Sunday evening in December, when he was walking with two friends along the Dean Road, to the west of Edinburgh — one of the noblest outlets to any city. It was a lovely evening, — such a sunset as one never forgets ; a rich dark bar of cloud hovered over the sun, going down behind the Highland hills, lying bathed in amethystine bloom ; between this cloud and the hills there was a narrow slip of the pure ether, of a tender cowslip...
Strana 65 - and brought a friend with him from Salem. After dinner the friend said, ' I have been trying to persuade Hawthorne to write a story based upon a legend of Acadia, and still current there, — the legend of a girl who, in the dispersion of the Acadians, was separated from her lover, and passed her life in waiting and seeking for him, and only found him dying in a hospital when both were old.