The Brotherhood of LettersE. Stock, 1889 - 271 pages |
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... pleasant and beautiful , the heart and senses must enjoy it , objects must be smiling or picturesque , sentiments delicate or lofty ; no crudity , incongruity , bru- tality , savageness , must come to sully with its excess the modulated ...
... pleasant and beautiful , the heart and senses must enjoy it , objects must be smiling or picturesque , sentiments delicate or lofty ; no crudity , incongruity , bru- tality , savageness , must come to sully with its excess the modulated ...
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... pleasant to talk , used to meet , having Tennyson as one of the number , and James Spedding for secre- tary ] , is that of once escorting Sterling , after a certain meeting there , which I had seen only to- wards the end , and now ...
... pleasant to talk , used to meet , having Tennyson as one of the number , and James Spedding for secre- tary ] , is that of once escorting Sterling , after a certain meeting there , which I had seen only to- wards the end , and now ...
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... pleasant picture . " Constable , " he writes , " had hardly set up for him- self when he reached the summit of his business . He rushed out and took possession of the open field , as if he had been aware from the first of the existence ...
... pleasant picture . " Constable , " he writes , " had hardly set up for him- self when he reached the summit of his business . He rushed out and took possession of the open field , as if he had been aware from the first of the existence ...
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... pleasant to look - whose silence was better than many another man's con- versation . At the other end of the table sat Agassiz , robust , sanguine , animated , full of talk , boy - like in his laughter . The stranger who should have ...
... pleasant to look - whose silence was better than many another man's con- versation . At the other end of the table sat Agassiz , robust , sanguine , animated , full of talk , boy - like in his laughter . The stranger who should have ...
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... pleasant evenings among friends . " On the question being started , Ayrton said , ' I suppose the two first persons you would choose to see would be the two greatest names in English literature , Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Locke ? ' In ...
... pleasant evenings among friends . " On the question being started , Ayrton said , ' I suppose the two first persons you would choose to see would be the two greatest names in English literature , Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Locke ? ' In ...
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Page 179 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 214 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 242 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ! Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 108 - AH, Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
Page 95 - 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...
Page 156 - Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day.
Page 109 - 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...
Page 42 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Page 39 - I remember how at Cambridge I walked with her once in the Fellows' Garden of Trinity on an evening of rainy May ; and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have been used so often as the inspiring trumpet-calls of men — the words God, Immortality, Duty — pronounced, with terrible earnestness, how inconceivable was the "first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.
Page 107 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...