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Pagina 300
... Richard Dowling ( 1846-1898 ) Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1850-1894 ) T THE FAMILIAR ESSAY HE familiar essay marks the final.
... Richard Dowling ( 1846-1898 ) Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1850-1894 ) T THE FAMILIAR ESSAY HE familiar essay marks the final.
Pagina 308
... Richard Dowling , is included in this series , because he affords an admirable example of the perfection to which the essay has come among modern writers who are comparatively unknown . Dowling lived and died unappreciated by his ...
... Richard Dowling , is included in this series , because he affords an admirable example of the perfection to which the essay has come among modern writers who are comparatively unknown . Dowling lived and died unappreciated by his ...
Pagina 326
... if thy hand has plenty , be liberal as the date tree ; but if it affords nothing to give away , be an azad , or free man , like the cypress . " MY COPY OF KEATS1 Richard Dowling 2 The only copy 326 THE FAMILIAR FAMILIAR ESSAY.
... if thy hand has plenty , be liberal as the date tree ; but if it affords nothing to give away , be an azad , or free man , like the cypress . " MY COPY OF KEATS1 Richard Dowling 2 The only copy 326 THE FAMILIAR FAMILIAR ESSAY.
Pagina 327
... Richard Dowling 2 The only copy of Keats I ever owned is a modest volume published by Edward Moxon & Co. in the year 1861. By writing on its yellow fly - leaf I find it was given to me four years later in September ... RICHARD 327 DOWLING.
... Richard Dowling 2 The only copy of Keats I ever owned is a modest volume published by Edward Moxon & Co. in the year 1861. By writing on its yellow fly - leaf I find it was given to me four years later in September ... RICHARD 327 DOWLING.
Pagina 329
... thy bliss , For ever wilt thou love and she be fair ! " He rehearsed the whole of the ode over and over again as we lay on the grass watching the vast chestnuts and oaks bending over the river , as though they had grown RICHARD 329 DOWLING.
... thy bliss , For ever wilt thou love and she be fair ! " He rehearsed the whole of the ode over and over again as we lay on the grass watching the vast chestnuts and oaks bending over the river , as though they had grown RICHARD 329 DOWLING.
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Pagina 330 - Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Pagina 290 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 319 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Pagina 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Pagina 29 - It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value of things by this, that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely in nothing but in love : neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said, " That the arch " flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have " intelligence, is a man's self...
Pagina 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Pagina 291 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, - for that moment only.
Pagina 237 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, And as the hasty fruit before the summer; Which when he that looketh upon it seeth, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Pagina 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 289 - Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play ! " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...