Talks about AutographsHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 191 من الصفحات |
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... poet . He took the evil with the good , - the fame of a poet and the trouble which it brought with it . Of his Hiawatha ten thousand copies were sold in the first few weeks after publication . A little later he recorded that the sale ...
... poet . He took the evil with the good , - the fame of a poet and the trouble which it brought with it . Of his Hiawatha ten thousand copies were sold in the first few weeks after publication . A little later he recorded that the sale ...
الصفحة 2
... poet's patience . He suffered under the infliction , and he made his sufferings known . An autograph book , he declared , was an instru- ment of torture unknown even to the Inquisition . When he did not recognize a correspondent's ...
... poet's patience . He suffered under the infliction , and he made his sufferings known . An autograph book , he declared , was an instru- ment of torture unknown even to the Inquisition . When he did not recognize a correspondent's ...
الصفحة 3
... poet , I would address him after some such fashion as the fol- lowing : - ― DEAR SIR , My love for your writings finds no other vent for its expression but in a way which I trust will not offend you by its being less spiritual than I ...
... poet , I would address him after some such fashion as the fol- lowing : - ― DEAR SIR , My love for your writings finds no other vent for its expression but in a way which I trust will not offend you by its being less spiritual than I ...
الصفحة 6
... poet's publisher , to call at his office , as he had a curiosity to show them . Here , " he said , when they came in , “ are some genuine letters of Byron's , and here are forgeries of them . We must not mix them , for if we do we shall ...
... poet's publisher , to call at his office , as he had a curiosity to show them . Here , " he said , when they came in , “ are some genuine letters of Byron's , and here are forgeries of them . We must not mix them , for if we do we shall ...
الصفحة 24
... poet , who hated He met his death , " That drum's discordant sound , Which goes parading round and round ; " Lord Nelson's secretary , whose name also was Scott , killed by his master's side at Trafalgar ; and John Scott the editor ...
... poet , who hated He met his death , " That drum's discordant sound , Which goes parading round and round ; " Lord Nelson's secretary , whose name also was Scott , killed by his master's side at Trafalgar ; and John Scott the editor ...
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Ambleside American asked autograph believe Boswell brother Brougham Carlyle collection collector College Colonel copy D. G. ROSSETTI DEAR SIR dinner doubt edition editor Eldon England English escaped FACSIMILE faithfully father feeling following letter France French genius give Gordon hand happy Hartley Coleridge heard hope Horace Walpole John Bright Johnson LA FAVORITE Lamb late learning Leigh Hunt letter was written London look Lord Lord Eldon Macaulay Macpherson Madame de Staël Matthew Arnold Miss Edgeworth Miss Martineau never once Oxford Paris passed Pembroke College perhaps pleasant pleasure poet pounds published Quincey received replied Review ROBERT SOUTHEY ROSSETTI Saturday scarcely Scott sent Sir Rowland soldiers Southey story strong talk tell THOMAS DE QUINCEY thought tion told town Tupper W. E. GLADSTONE wish word writing wrote young
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الصفحة 53 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.
الصفحة 92 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
الصفحة 90 - Dunvegan, and Col. Dr. Johnson appeared fond of it, and used often to stand for some time with his ear close to the great drone.
الصفحة 8 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
الصفحة 60 - A dissenter, but a liberal one ; a man of letters and of genius ; master of a fine imagination, or rather not master of it — an imagination which, when he finds himself in the company he loves, and can confide in, runs away with him into such fields of speculation as amuse and enliven every other imagination that has the happiness to be of the party. At other times he has a tender and delicate sort of melancholy in his disposition, not less agreeable in its way.
الصفحة 52 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
الصفحة 104 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
الصفحة 55 - Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity of mankind ; never could read a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it.
الصفحة 23 - Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
الصفحة 60 - O'Connell always treated me with friendly attention, but I never shook hands with him or faced his smile without a feeling of insecurity; and as for trusting him on any public question where his vanity or passions might interpose, I should have as soon thought of an alliance with an Ashantee...