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, Volumul 1G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... least and gentlest things the greatest and sweetest intentions of Nature - and to cultivate those sooth- ing , serene , and affectionate feelings , which leave us in peace with all the world , and in good hope of the world to come . The ...
... least and gentlest things the greatest and sweetest intentions of Nature - and to cultivate those sooth- ing , serene , and affectionate feelings , which leave us in peace with all the world , and in good hope of the world to come . The ...
Pagina 20
... least he is no universalist ; no sympa- thiser with the entire and genial round of existence ; and it is for the reader who is , that these volumes are emphati- cally intended . A universalist , in one high bibliographical respect , may ...
... least he is no universalist ; no sympa- thiser with the entire and genial round of existence ; and it is for the reader who is , that these volumes are emphati- cally intended . A universalist , in one high bibliographical respect , may ...
Pagina 25
... least sense of the word ; but it has the best in the greatest sense ; that is to say , never - dying novelty ; —antiquity hung with ivy - blossoms and rose - buds ; old friends with the ever- new faces of wit , thought , and affection ...
... least sense of the word ; but it has the best in the greatest sense ; that is to say , never - dying novelty ; —antiquity hung with ivy - blossoms and rose - buds ; old friends with the ever- new faces of wit , thought , and affection ...
Pagina 53
... least surprising , is the one most habitually felt by the reader ; the one he oftenest thinks of . It is indeed the main subject of the book . But , as its interest spreads over the greater part of it , and could only be duly ...
... least surprising , is the one most habitually felt by the reader ; the one he oftenest thinks of . It is indeed the main subject of the book . But , as its interest spreads over the greater part of it , and could only be duly ...
Pagina 54
... least clever and least pleasant ? We were not so dis- appointed with the Second Part of Crusoe as we expected to be , when we read the book over again the other day , but still it is very infe- rior ; not wanted ; not even of a piece ...
... least clever and least pleasant ? We were not so dis- appointed with the Second Part of Crusoe as we expected to be , when we read the book over again the other day , but still it is very infe- rior ; not wanted ; not even of a piece ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...