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... become really intimate through his books , we always attach an adjective- label , - " holy " George Herbert , " judicious " Hooker , " quaint old " Izaak Walton ( always a double allowance of adjective to the author of the Compleat 14 ...
... become really intimate through his books , we always attach an adjective- label , - " holy " George Herbert , " judicious " Hooker , " quaint old " Izaak Walton ( always a double allowance of adjective to the author of the Compleat 14 ...
Page 50
... becomes aware at once that the poems are no laboured task which the poet has badgered his brains to produce for the stated occasion , but are the fresh outpourings of a cheerful , healthy and remarkably ready poetic nature . Some ...
... becomes aware at once that the poems are no laboured task which the poet has badgered his brains to produce for the stated occasion , but are the fresh outpourings of a cheerful , healthy and remarkably ready poetic nature . Some ...
Page 59
... become the Present - in other words until " Homer is forgotten " —his judg- ment though it may be called in question cannot be refuted . It is true that the work so welcomed may be forgotten during the lifetime of both critic and author ...
... become the Present - in other words until " Homer is forgotten " —his judg- ment though it may be called in question cannot be refuted . It is true that the work so welcomed may be forgotten during the lifetime of both critic and author ...
Page 60
... becomes that nine - days ' wonder , that thing for which the writer for cash must pray day and night , and for which the true literary artist must as earnestly pray may not be his " the book of the season . " Such as a topical song is ...
... becomes that nine - days ' wonder , that thing for which the writer for cash must pray day and night , and for which the true literary artist must as earnestly pray may not be his " the book of the season . " Such as a topical song is ...
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... become so common , and , perhaps , so abused , an institution , that if on picking up a new work we find it stated early in the preface that " through all the disguise of fiction a grave scientific ( social , moral or theological ...
... become so common , and , perhaps , so abused , an institution , that if on picking up a new work we find it stated early in the preface that " through all the disguise of fiction a grave scientific ( social , moral or theological ...
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Page 42 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 34 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the...
Page 119 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 119 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new...
Page 121 - I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
Page 35 - My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago— That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer! And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At...
Page 45 - Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy Q.! Strange is the gift that I owe to you; Such a gift as never a king Save to daughter or son might bring, — All my tenure of heart and hand, All my title to house and land; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and life! What if a hundred years ago Those close-shut lips had answered No...
Page 125 - Tis indeed a part of life that best expresseth death; for every man truly lives, so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties of himself.
Page 34 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 142 - Time claims his tribute ; silence now is golden ; Let me not vex the too long suffering lyre ; Though to your love untiring still beholden, The curfew tells me — cover up the fire. And now with grateful smile and accents cheerful...