A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of Enjoyment: with Comments on Each, and a Genera; Introduction, Volumen1G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... youthful associa tions in it being such as the oldest readers love to call to mind , and the oldest such as all would gladly meet * The last article of the Second Series . with in their decline . It has no politics in.
... youthful associa tions in it being such as the oldest readers love to call to mind , and the oldest such as all would gladly meet * The last article of the Second Series . with in their decline . It has no politics in.
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... READERS . THIS compilation is intended for all lovers of books , at every time of life , from childhood to old age , particu- larly such as are fond of the authors it quotes , and who enjoy their perusal most in the quietest places . It ...
... READERS . THIS compilation is intended for all lovers of books , at every time of life , from childhood to old age , particu- larly such as are fond of the authors it quotes , and who enjoy their perusal most in the quietest places . It ...
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... reader of our volumes . When Gray and Walpole were at Eton , they partitioned out the fields into territories of which they had read in books , and so ruled over them and sent ambassadors to one another . These are the sort of school ...
... reader of our volumes . When Gray and Walpole were at Eton , they partitioned out the fields into territories of which they had read in books , and so ruled over them and sent ambassadors to one another . These are the sort of school ...
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... reader ever ceased to believe in his books , whatever doubts they might have taught him by the way . They are pleasures too palpable and habitual for him to deny . The habit itself is a pleasure . They contain his young dreams and his ...
... reader ever ceased to believe in his books , whatever doubts they might have taught him by the way . They are pleasures too palpable and habitual for him to deny . The habit itself is a pleasure . They contain his young dreams and his ...
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... readers care for " existing things " ( except when Ireland is mentioned , or a child is grieving ) compared with poetry and romance ? What for Bonaparte and his pre- tences , compared with the honest jealousy of " Orlando , ” or the ...
... readers care for " existing things " ( except when Ireland is mentioned , or a child is grieving ) compared with poetry and romance ? What for Bonaparte and his pre- tences , compared with the honest jealousy of " Orlando , ” or the ...
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A Book for a Corner; Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from ..., Volumen1 Leigh Hunt Vista completa - 1852 |
A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best ... Vista completa - 1852 |
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Página 48 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 170 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair, Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Página 95 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 31 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Página 168 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Página 227 - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon...
Página 179 - Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep...
Página 226 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Página 226 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...