Temple Bar, Volume 59Ward and Lock, 1880 |
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Adam Adam's admiration Alföld answered asked beauty Beauvallon Bois-Duval Brantôme Brocklebank called Colbert Cowper Crawford Dalrie daughter dear death delight Delorme door Elizabeth English Eve's exclaimed eyes face father feel felt France French gave girl give hand head heart Henri Murger honour hope Hubert Huguenay Hungarian Jerrem Joan kind King knew Lady Reynolds Lansallos laugh Lescar Leslie letter little Eva lived look Lord Helicon Madame Madame de Maintenon Magyar manner marriage married mind Miss Reynolds mother Murger nature Nelly never night once passed passionate Perdita perhaps Pesth poet poetry Polperro poor pretty replied returned seemed Sir James sister smile speak talk tell things Thomasina Thorpe-le-Soken thought told tone took Trouville turned Vicomte voice walk wife Winstanley woman women words young Zebedee
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Page 176 - I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it, though with more reputation I could write in verse.
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Page 220 - Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard : To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more. Thus genius rose and set at order...
Page 352 - ... umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose, decked With unrejoicing berries, ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; FEAR and trembling HOPE, SILENCE and FORESIGHT; DEATH, the Skeleton, And TIME, the Shadow; there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Page 216 - I once thought Swift's Letters the best that could be written ; but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called, is never ill-natured or offensive, and yet, I think, equally poignant with the Dean's.
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