A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of EnjoymentLeigh Hunt J.P. Putnam, 1852 - English literature |
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... hope to be a 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 ...
... hope to be a 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 ...
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Leigh Hunt. creation at once so wholesome and so useful . We hope many a man of business will refresh himself with the short pieces in these volumes , and return to his work the fitter to baffle craft , and yet retain a reverence for ...
Leigh Hunt. creation at once so wholesome and so useful . We hope many a man of business will refresh himself with the short pieces in these volumes , and return to his work the fitter to baffle craft , and yet retain a reverence for ...
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... hope of the world to come . The very greatest genius , after all , is not the greatest thing in the world , any more than the greatest city in the world . is the country or the sky . It is a concentration of some of its greatest powers ...
... hope of the world to come . The very greatest genius , after all , is not the greatest thing in the world , any more than the greatest city in the world . is the country or the sky . It is a concentration of some of its greatest powers ...
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... cheerfulness , it may , with few exceptions , even be one of the best . We hope our volume may light into the hands of such men . Every extract which is made in 22 INTRODUCTION . LETTER TO A NEW-BORN CHILD THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
... cheerfulness , it may , with few exceptions , even be one of the best . We hope our volume may light into the hands of such men . Every extract which is made in 22 INTRODUCTION . LETTER TO A NEW-BORN CHILD THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
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... hope that the " knowing reader " will not think we have assisted inquiry too often . We hate , with our friends the little boys , nothing so much as the " Moral " that officiously treads the heels of the great Æsop , and which assumes ...
... hope that the " knowing reader " will not think we have assisted inquiry too often . We hate , with our friends the little boys , nothing so much as the " Moral " that officiously treads the heels of the great Æsop , and which assumes ...
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Page 46 - 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 29 - 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 167 - And on her dulcimer she played, 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!
Page 166 - 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.
Page 226 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.
Page 137 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?
Page 167 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Page 226 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 164 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 17 - Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.