Studies in Some Famous LettersBurleigh, 1899 - 308 pages |
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... feeling life's joys and sorrows , and with the gift for telling the tale , that the books are written which never grow out of date . Few men have had these gifts more fully than Cowper , and it is a pity that he never wrote a novel . If ...
... feeling life's joys and sorrows , and with the gift for telling the tale , that the books are written which never grow out of date . Few men have had these gifts more fully than Cowper , and it is a pity that he never wrote a novel . If ...
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... feelings , he had entered with the Unwins on a course of life which was very dangerous to one who had suffered as he had , and which indeed was not long in showing itself so . This is how they lived : " We breakfast commonly between ...
... feelings , he had entered with the Unwins on a course of life which was very dangerous to one who had suffered as he had , and which indeed was not long in showing itself so . This is how they lived : " We breakfast commonly between ...
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... feeling , give their hearty thanks to Almighty God , that it had pleased Him to deliver the departed out of the miseries . of this sinful world . " Cowper's letters are so perfectly easy and simple and sincere that we can enjoy them in ...
... feeling , give their hearty thanks to Almighty God , that it had pleased Him to deliver the departed out of the miseries . of this sinful world . " Cowper's letters are so perfectly easy and simple and sincere that we can enjoy them in ...
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... feeling been expressed in a language not the author's own . Can it really be sup- posed that a man of this sort did not lose by being placed in the first half of the last century ? Is it not as certain as anything can be in the study of ...
... feeling been expressed in a language not the author's own . Can it really be sup- posed that a man of this sort did not lose by being placed in the first half of the last century ? Is it not as certain as anything can be in the study of ...
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... feels that he is writing to one who will both understand and appreciate his delight in what he describes . But if we are to let Gray talk of anything but himself we must pass on . Every one has read and admired his excel- lent literary ...
... feels that he is writing to one who will both understand and appreciate his delight in what he describes . But if we are to let Gray talk of anything but himself we must pass on . Every one has read and admired his excel- lent literary ...
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Page 68 - Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive...
Page 238 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Page 65 - I break in upon you at a moment, when we least of all are permitted to disturb our friends, only to say, that you are daily and hourly present to my thoughts. If the worst be not yet past, you will neglect and pardon me : but if the last struggle be over ; if the poor object of your long anxieties be no longer sensible to your kindness, or to her own sufferings, allow me (at least in idea, for what could I do, were I present, more than this ?) to sit by you in silence, and pity from my heart not...
Page 260 - Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! " Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them rather than turn slave to the booksellers.
Page 23 - We were sitting yesterday after dinner, the two ladies and myself, very composedly, and without the least apprehension of any such intrusion in our snug parlour, one lady knitting, the other netting, and the gentleman winding worsted, when...
Page 9 - And I will tell you what you shall find at your first entrance. Imprimis, as soon as you have entered the vestibule, if you cast a look on either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making. It is the box in which have been lodged all my hares, and in which lodges Puss at present.
Page 261 - Keep to your Bank, and the Bank will keep you. Trust not to the Public, you may hang, starve, drown yourself, for anything that worthy Personage cares. I bless every star, that Providence, not seeing good to make me independent, has seen it next good to settle me upon the stable foundation of Leadenhall.
Page 25 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Page 16 - We breakfast commonly between eight and nine ; till eleven, we read either the Scripture, or the sermons of some faithful preacher of those holy mysteries ; at eleven, we attend divine service, which is performed here twice every day ; and from twelve to three we separate, and amuse ourselves as we please.
Page 21 - I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such like things, with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you...