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, Volume 1G. P. Putnam, 1852 - English literature |
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... object that some of these also are too familiar , the answer is , that they are of a nature which rendered it impossible for us , consistently with our plan , to omit them , and that readers in general would have missed them . We allude ...
... object that some of these also are too familiar , the answer is , that they are of a nature which rendered it impossible for us , consistently with our plan , to omit them , and that readers in general would have missed them . We allude ...
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... object to his Raphael or Titian ? Or in such a collection of music , to his Beethoven , Rossini , or Paisiello ? Our book may have little novelty in the least sense of the word ; but it has the best in the greatest sense ; that is to ...
... object to his Raphael or Titian ? Or in such a collection of music , to his Beethoven , Rossini , or Paisiello ? Our book may have little novelty in the least sense of the word ; but it has the best in the greatest sense ; that is to ...
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... objects round you . As you advance further in life , this philosophical temper will by degrees wear off ; the first object of your admiration will probably be the candle , and thence ( as we all of us do ) you will contract a taste for ...
... objects round you . As you advance further in life , this philosophical temper will by degrees wear off ; the first object of your admiration will probably be the candle , and thence ( as we all of us do ) you will contract a taste for ...
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... object of their wishes ! how unexperienced they gave credit to all the tales of romantic loves ! Dear George , were not the playing fields at Eton food for all manner of flights ? No old maid's gown , though it had been tormented into ...
... object of their wishes ! how unexperienced they gave credit to all the tales of romantic loves ! Dear George , were not the playing fields at Eton food for all manner of flights ? No old maid's gown , though it had been tormented into ...
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... object but the brown heath surrounding him , he was at length quite uncertain which way he should direct his course . Night overtook him in this situation . It was one of those nights when the moon gives a faint glimmering of light ...
... object but the brown heath surrounding him , he was at length quite uncertain which way he should direct his course . Night overtook him in this situation . It was one of those nights when the moon gives a faint glimmering of light ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...