Romantic Prose of the Early Nineteenth CenturyCarl Henry Grabo |
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... sonifications , capital letters , seas of sunbeams , visions of glory , shining inscriptions , the figures of a trans- parency , Britannia with her shield , or Hope leaning on an anchor , make up their stock - in 10 WILLIAM HAZLITT.
... sonifications , capital letters , seas of sunbeams , visions of glory , shining inscriptions , the figures of a trans- parency , Britannia with her shield , or Hope leaning on an anchor , make up their stock - in 10 WILLIAM HAZLITT.
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... hope , less startling than it was ; the reader will , by this time , have been let into my secret . Much about the same time , or I believe rather earlier , I took a particular satisfaction in reading Chubb's Tracts , and I often think ...
... hope , less startling than it was ; the reader will , by this time , have been let into my secret . Much about the same time , or I believe rather earlier , I took a particular satisfaction in reading Chubb's Tracts , and I often think ...
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... hope dawned again : but that dawn has been overcast by the foul breath of bigotry , and those reviving sounds stifled by fresh cries from the time - rent towers of the Inquisition : man yield- ing ( as it is fit he should ) first to ...
... hope dawned again : but that dawn has been overcast by the foul breath of bigotry , and those reviving sounds stifled by fresh cries from the time - rent towers of the Inquisition : man yield- ing ( as it is fit he should ) first to ...
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... Hope supplies their place , and draws a veil over the abrupt termination of all our cherished schemes . While the spirit of youth remains unimpaired , ere the " wine of life is drank up , " we are like people intoxicated or in a fever ...
... Hope supplies their place , and draws a veil over the abrupt termination of all our cherished schemes . While the spirit of youth remains unimpaired , ere the " wine of life is drank up , " we are like people intoxicated or in a fever ...
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... Hope , and Joy , withering around us , and our own pleasures cut up by the roots , that we bring the moral home to ourselves , that we abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions , or that the emptiness and dreariness ...
... Hope , and Joy , withering around us , and our own pleasures cut up by the roots , that we bring the moral home to ourselves , that we abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions , or that the emptiness and dreariness ...
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Page 15 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such; I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Page 110 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 292 - ... by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Page 18 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Page 137 - Bo-bo was in utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labor of an hour or two at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Page 123 - Do you remember how we eyed it for weeks before we could make up our minds to the purchase, and had not come to a determination till it was near ten o'clock of the Saturday night, when you set off from Islington, fearing you should be too late — and when the old bookseller with some grumbling opened his shop, and by the twinkling taper (for he was setting...
Page 13 - For either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Page 87 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 125 - It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at, that makes what I call a treat — when two people living together, as we have done, now and then indulge themselves in a cheap luxury, which both like, while each...
Page 112 - ... door-keepers — directors seated in form on solemn days (to proclaim a dead dividend), at long worm-eaten tables, that have been mahogany, with tarnished gilt-leather coverings, supporting massy silver inkstands long since dry; — the oaken wainscots hung with pictures of deceased governors and sub-governors, of Queen Anne, and the two first monarchs of the Brunswick dynasty; — huge charts, which subsequent discoveries have antiquated; — dusty maps of Mexico, dim as dreams, — and soundings...