Sketches from Life, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1846 |
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Page vii
... genius , living on the false excitement of vehement calumny and uproarious praise . His was a career not indeed obscure , but sufficiently quiet and unnoticed to be solaced with little of the pleasure with which , in aspirants of a ...
... genius , living on the false excitement of vehement calumny and uproarious praise . His was a career not indeed obscure , but sufficiently quiet and unnoticed to be solaced with little of the pleasure with which , in aspirants of a ...
Page viii
... genius from despair , but , by offering subsistence and dignity to that valuable class of writers whose learning and capacities unfit them , by reason of their very depth , for wide popularity , it has given worthy and profitable ...
... genius from despair , but , by offering subsistence and dignity to that valuable class of writers whose learning and capacities unfit them , by reason of their very depth , for wide popularity , it has given worthy and profitable ...
Page xi
... genius is to be imitative - first of authors , then of nature . Books lead us to fancy feel- ings that are not yet genuine . Experience is necessary to record those which colour our own existence : and the style only becomes original in ...
... genius is to be imitative - first of authors , then of nature . Books lead us to fancy feel- ings that are not yet genuine . Experience is necessary to record those which colour our own existence : and the style only becomes original in ...
Page xv
... genius and inclinations , and what will be most likely to obtain that patronage which it is necessary for you to look after . Should you however prefer adhering to the drama , I would have you turn your thoughts as much as possible from ...
... genius and inclinations , and what will be most likely to obtain that patronage which it is necessary for you to look after . Should you however prefer adhering to the drama , I would have you turn your thoughts as much as possible from ...
Page xix
... genius , and the very weeds are but a proof of the fertility of the soil . I shall , however , pass in silence over this and all the longer poems in the volume , and come at once to some sonnets which I think are entitled to rank among ...
... genius , and the very weeds are but a proof of the fertility of the soil . I shall , however , pass in silence over this and all the longer poems in the volume , and come at once to some sonnets which I think are entitled to rank among ...
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Page 82 - And thy arch and wily ways, And thy store of other praise. Blithe of heart, from week to week Thou dost play at hide-and-seek ; While the patient primrose sits...
Page 105 - Oh ! that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment, born and dying With the blest Tone that made me.
Page xxxii - His thoughts were as a pyramid up-piled, On whose far top an angel stood and smiled — Yet, in his heart, was he a simple child.
Page xii - ... and colonial appointments, can reward his services and prevent his starving. But for the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump ; and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension — and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler...
Page xxxi - Added to this, they contain not a thought, not a line, from which the most anxious parent would guard his child. They may be read with safety by the most simple, and yet they contain enough of truth and character to interest the most reflective.
Page xxxi - HE taught the cheerfulness that still is ours The sweetness that still lurks in human powers; If heaven be full of stars, the earth has flowers. His was the searching thought, the glowing mind; The gentle will, to others soon resigned; But, more than all, the feeling just and kind. His pleasures were as melodies from reeds — Sweet books, deep music and unselfish deeds. Finding immortal flowers in human weeds. True to his kind, nor of himself afraid, He...
Page xii - And so, on the sudden loss of the situation in which he had frittered away his higher and more delicate genius, in all the drudgery that a party exacts from its defender of the press, Laman Blanchard was thrown again upon the world, to shift as he might, and subsist as he could. His practice in periodical writing was now considerable ; his versatility was extreme. He was marked by publishers and editors as a useful contributor, and so his livelihood was secure. From a variety of sources thus he contrived,...
Page ix - EVENING. ALREADY hath the day grown grey with age ; And in the west, like to a conqueror crowned, Is faint with too much glory. On the ground He flings his dazzling arms ; and, as a sage, Prepares him for a cloud-hung hermitage, Where Meditation meets him at the door ; And all around — on wall, and roof, and floor, Some pensive star unfolds its silver page Of truth, which God's own hand hath testified. Sweet Eve...