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... wrote under the melancholy impression that he should soon die , we find him concluding with a prayer in somewhat the same spirit . After bidding adieu to all the favourite scenes of his youth , * he thus continues : - Forget this world ...
... wrote under the melancholy impression that he should soon die , we find him concluding with a prayer in somewhat the same spirit . After bidding adieu to all the favourite scenes of his youth , * he thus continues : - Forget this world ...
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... wrote the critique . I am " Your name and connexion with our family have been long known to me , and I hope your person will be not less so ; you will find me an excellent com- pound of a ' Brainless ' and a ' Stanhope . ' * afraid you ...
... wrote the critique . I am " Your name and connexion with our family have been long known to me , and I hope your person will be not less so ; you will find me an excellent com- pound of a ' Brainless ' and a ' Stanhope . ' * afraid you ...
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... wrote prose ; I verse : he was of the people ; I of the aristocracy : † he was a philoso- pher ; I am none : he published his first work at forty ; I mine at eighteen : his first essay brought him universal applause ; mine the contrary ...
... wrote prose ; I verse : he was of the people ; I of the aristocracy : † he was a philoso- pher ; I am none : he published his first work at forty ; I mine at eighteen : his first essay brought him universal applause ; mine the contrary ...
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... wrote two other poems at this period , from which , as they exist only in the Miscellany I have just alluded to , and that collection has for some time been out of print , a few stanzas may , not improperly , be extracted here . THE ...
... wrote two other poems at this period , from which , as they exist only in the Miscellany I have just alluded to , and that collection has for some time been out of print , a few stanzas may , not improperly , be extracted here . THE ...
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... wrote his " Hints from Horace , ” - a satire which , impregnated as it is with London life from be- ginning to end , bears the date , " Athens , Capuchin Convent , March 12 , 1811. " From the few remaining letters addressed to his ...
... wrote his " Hints from Horace , ” - a satire which , impregnated as it is with London life from be- ginning to end , bears the date , " Athens , Capuchin Convent , March 12 , 1811. " From the few remaining letters addressed to his ...
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Page 255 - So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon.
Page 421 - Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
Page 16 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 277 - With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free; and that the present and next generations will finally be of this opinion.
Page 301 - Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens : And, toil'd with works of war, retired himself To Italy ; and there at Venice, gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.
Page 236 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill : At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy — for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 417 - Roll o'er the sea, the mountains, numbering Thy years of joy and sorrow. " Thou art gone ; And he who would assail thee in thy grave, Oh, let him pause ! For who among us all, Tried as thou wert — even from thine earliest years, When wandering, yet unspoilt, a...
Page 420 - Indisputably, the firm believers in the Gospel have a great advantage over all others, — for this simple reason, that if true, they will have their reward hereafter ; and if there be no hereafter, they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having had the assistance of an exalted hope, through life, without subsequent disappointment, since (at the worst for them) out of nothing, nothing can arise, not even sorrow.
Page 426 - As to poor Shelley, who is another bugbear to you and the world, he is, to my knowledge, the least selfish and the mildest of men — a man who has made more sacrifices of his fortune and feelings for others than any I ever heard of.
Page 241 - If my inheritance of storms hath been In other elements - and on the rocks Of perils overlooked or unforeseen I have sustained my share of worldly shocks The fault was mine - nor do I seek to screen My errors with defensive paradox I have been cunning in mine overthrow The careful pilot of my proper woe.