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... talent and scholarship to succeed to a vacant assist- antship at that place . Such was the steadiness of conduct and manliness of mind , combined with sound knowledge , for his years , in Mr. Drury , that Dr. Watson did not hesitate to ...
... talent and scholarship to succeed to a vacant assist- antship at that place . Such was the steadiness of conduct and manliness of mind , combined with sound knowledge , for his years , in Mr. Drury , that Dr. Watson did not hesitate to ...
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... talents . Dr. B. Heath , after a good deal of opposition , having at length firmly established himself at Harrow , the wide con- nections of the school , and the undoubted abilities of its masters , soon rendered the short - lived ...
... talents . Dr. B. Heath , after a good deal of opposition , having at length firmly established himself at Harrow , the wide con- nections of the school , and the undoubted abilities of its masters , soon rendered the short - lived ...
Pagina 49
... , it became an object of solicitude with the British government to assist this banished army ; and the task , which VOL . XIX . E required both talent and delicacy , was intrusted to Keats SIR RICHARD GOODWIN KEATS . 49.
... , it became an object of solicitude with the British government to assist this banished army ; and the task , which VOL . XIX . E required both talent and delicacy , was intrusted to Keats SIR RICHARD GOODWIN KEATS . 49.
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required both talent and delicacy , was intrusted to Keats . This desirable object was executed with his usual address , and he succeeded in rescuing the Marquis , and about 10,000 men , whom he embarked at Nyborg , in Denmark , on the ...
required both talent and delicacy , was intrusted to Keats . This desirable object was executed with his usual address , and he succeeded in rescuing the Marquis , and about 10,000 men , whom he embarked at Nyborg , in Denmark , on the ...
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... talents he possessed were ever called into full play ; for we have no scruple in placing him at the very head of our naval phalanx , having proved himself second to none in gallantry , genius , or talent . It was at first intended that ...
... talents he possessed were ever called into full play ; for we have no scruple in placing him at the very head of our naval phalanx , having proved himself second to none in gallantry , genius , or talent . It was at first intended that ...
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Pagina 339 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Pagina 338 - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination.
Pagina 339 - Lyrical Ballads; in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Pagina 348 - tis Death itself there dies. EPITAPH. STOP, Christian Passer-by — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he — O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Pagina 365 - What little suppers, or sizings, as they were called, have I enjoyed; when .'Eschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons, &c., to discuss the pamphlets of the day. Ever and anon a pamphlet issued from the pen of Burke. There was no need of having the book before us. Coleridge had read it in the morning; and in the evening he would repeat whole pages verbatim.
Pagina 242 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety...
Pagina 322 - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no' end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
Pagina 336 - ... their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had ' inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Pagina 346 - A Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents.
Pagina 329 - ... minister and his friends, and because I had never smoked except once or twice in my lifetime, and then it was herb tobacco mixed with Oronooko. On the assurance however that the tobacco was equally mild, and seeing too that it was of a yellow colour; (not forgetting the lamentable difficulty, I have always experienced, in saying, No!