English Men of Letters, Volume 10John Morley Harper & Brothers, 1894 |
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acquaintance admiration affection afterwards Alfoxden Allan Cunningham appeared Ayrshire Ballads beauty Biographia Literaria brother Burns Burns's called character Charles Lamb Christabel Cole Coleridge Coleridge's composed criticism Dalswinton death delight doubt Dugald Stewart Dumfries Edinburgh Ellisland emotion English expression fact farm father feeling genius give Goslar Grasmere habits happiness heart hope human imagination Keswick lady Lake lectures less letter lines literary living Lockhart look Lyrical Ballads Mauchline mind months mood moral Mossgiel nature Nether Stowey never once pain passage passed passion perhaps pleasure poems poet poet's poetic poetry political Quincey reader Rydal Rydal Mount scene Scotland Scottish seems seen sense Shanter sister song sonnets soul Southey spirit strong thee things thou thought tion tour truth verse volume whole wife words Wordsworth writes written wrote young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 172 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Pagina 27 - The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.
Pagina 140 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Pagina 168 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Pagina 94 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Pagina 95 - OF a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best: There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between ; But, day and night, my fancy's flight Is ever wi
Pagina 94 - There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seem'd mine.
Pagina 56 - Sons, mothers, maidens withering on the stalk; These all wear out of me, like forms with chalk Painted on rich men's floors for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering its faint undersong.
Pagina 51 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest.
Pagina 186 - The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.