Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A. Clouston |
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... whole took so strong a hold of Mr. Shelley's mind , that he suddenly started up and ran out of the room . The physician and Lord Byron followed , and discovered him leaning against a mantel - piece , with the cold drops of perspiration ...
... whole took so strong a hold of Mr. Shelley's mind , that he suddenly started up and ran out of the room . The physician and Lord Byron followed , and discovered him leaning against a mantel - piece , with the cold drops of perspiration ...
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... whole , I am inclined to think that we do pretty well as we are ; and if we desire to live reasonably long , we shall achieve our end by the simpler rules of common sense.- " Free Lance " in London Society . A COLLECTOR OF CORKS . Nor ...
... whole , I am inclined to think that we do pretty well as we are ; and if we desire to live reasonably long , we shall achieve our end by the simpler rules of common sense.- " Free Lance " in London Society . A COLLECTOR OF CORKS . Nor ...
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... whole , and had reared a young family amongst the gnawed bits of paper which , but a few months before , represented nearly a thousand inhabitants of air ! The burning heat which instantly rushed through my brain was too great to be ...
... whole , and had reared a young family amongst the gnawed bits of paper which , but a few months before , represented nearly a thousand inhabitants of air ! The burning heat which instantly rushed through my brain was too great to be ...
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... whole to the empress , and sent her the original dispatch . Her majesty immediately returned the following answer , addressed to Souworrow : - " As a soldier , I leave you to the mercy of the commander - in - chief ; as a Russian , I ...
... whole to the empress , and sent her the original dispatch . Her majesty immediately returned the following answer , addressed to Souworrow : - " As a soldier , I leave you to the mercy of the commander - in - chief ; as a Russian , I ...
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... whole list of our English poets we can only remember Shenstone and Savage - two , certainly , of the lowest- who were querulous and discontented . Cowley , indeed , used to call himself melancholy ; but he was not in earnest , and at ...
... whole list of our English poets we can only remember Shenstone and Savage - two , certainly , of the lowest- who were querulous and discontented . Cowley , indeed , used to call himself melancholy ; but he was not in earnest , and at ...
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Page 195 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 196 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 128 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 195 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 45 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 158 - Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 66 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 195 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Page 196 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 154 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.