The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty, Virtue, and TruthLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
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... poet said it was difficult to speak of common things well- " Difficile est proprie communia dicere . " Perhaps one reason is that common things were intended to speak for themselves , and therefore to need no orator . Be that as it may ...
... poet said it was difficult to speak of common things well- " Difficile est proprie communia dicere . " Perhaps one reason is that common things were intended to speak for themselves , and therefore to need no orator . Be that as it may ...
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... poet says , " The satiety of mortals is grievous to incur * . " " Quod They will for a season have had enough of it . They will be moderate now ; and , in fact , the greatest truths are too ethereal for human nature's daily food . Are ...
... poet says , " The satiety of mortals is grievous to incur * . " " Quod They will for a season have had enough of it . They will be moderate now ; and , in fact , the greatest truths are too ethereal for human nature's daily food . Are ...
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... Poets , for in- stance , are seldom led astray by the gloomy false lights of fana- ticism , or cast down by personal misfortunes . " Poets , " as Hazlitt remarks , " in their youth and health , have had too strong a sense of the ...
... Poets , for in- stance , are seldom led astray by the gloomy false lights of fana- ticism , or cast down by personal misfortunes . " Poets , " as Hazlitt remarks , " in their youth and health , have had too strong a sense of the ...
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... poet ! Take this lesson to thy heart , That is best which lieth nearest ; Shape from that thy work of art . " " Ad manum est quod sat est . " Every familiar thing may pre- sent itself to you as forming a picture , and then " what an ...
... poet ! Take this lesson to thy heart , That is best which lieth nearest ; Shape from that thy work of art . " " Ad manum est quod sat est . " Every familiar thing may pre- sent itself to you as forming a picture , and then " what an ...
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... poet Holmes speaks of the love with which he sees the poor frailties that furnish his small room , —his ancient chair , his table , his mug with gaudy streaks , his broken mirror , that can smile and smile on all alike . So true are ...
... poet Holmes speaks of the love with which he sees the poor frailties that furnish his small room , —his ancient chair , his table , his mug with gaudy streaks , his broken mirror , that can smile and smile on all alike . So true are ...
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The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ... Kenelm Henry Digby Visualização integral - 1856 |
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admire affections appanage Aristotle Bartholomew Fair beauty Ben Jonson bower character Charles Lamb charm Cicero classes colour common pleasures common things common virtues costermonger delight divine dress earth excellence extraordinary eyes fancy fashion feel Festus flowers folly friends grace happy hath Hazlitt hear heard heart heaven honour human humour kind laugh light live London look Love's Pilgrimage Lover's Seat lovers mind mirth moral nature never object observe old play passion penny gaffs perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato poet poetry poor racter relation to virtue religion remark respect Richter rience scene seek seems sense sentiment sing Sir Launfal Sir Walter Scott smile society song soul speak spirit street sweet taste thee things in relation thou thought transcendental transcendentalists truth turn uncommon walk whole wise woman women words writer young youth
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Página 7 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 242 - HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy.
Página 39 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 30 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Página 269 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the...
Página 311 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Página 262 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Página 261 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary...
Página 237 - Here be woods as green As any, air likewise as fresh and sweet As when smooth Zephyrus plays on the fleet Face of the curled streams, with flow'rs as many As the young spring gives, and as choice as any; Here be all new delights, cool streams and wells; Arbours o'ergrown with woodbines, caves and dells; Choose where thou wilt...
Página 340 - A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests ; he gives an independent, genuine verdict.