The borough, continued. Occasional pieces. The world of dreams. TalesJohn Murray, Albemarle Street, 1834 |
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... prepared to insist that , while le vrai ' is the highest recom- mendation of the historian of real life , the ' vraisemblable ' is the only legitimate province of the novelist who aims at improving the under- standing or touching the ...
... prepared to insist that , while le vrai ' is the highest recom- mendation of the historian of real life , the ' vraisemblable ' is the only legitimate province of the novelist who aims at improving the under- standing or touching the ...
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... prepare For cares to - morrow that were this day's care : For forms , for feasts , that sundry times have past , And formal feasts that will for ever last . " But then from Study will no comforts rise ? " _ Yes ! such as studious minds ...
... prepare For cares to - morrow that were this day's care : For forms , for feasts , that sundry times have past , And formal feasts that will for ever last . " But then from Study will no comforts rise ? " _ Yes ! such as studious minds ...
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... prepared at Orford , and a merry return anticipated at night ; and his fond mother obtained permission for George to be one of the company . Soon after sunrise , in a fine sum- mer morning , they were seated in their respective vessels ...
... prepared at Orford , and a merry return anticipated at night ; and his fond mother obtained permission for George to be one of the company . Soon after sunrise , in a fine sum- mer morning , they were seated in their respective vessels ...
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... prepared to shine , Physician , poet , lawyer , and divine . Hemm'd in by some tough argument , borne down By press of language and the awful frown , In vain for mercy shall the culprit plead ; His crime is past , and sentence must ...
... prepared to shine , Physician , poet , lawyer , and divine . Hemm'd in by some tough argument , borne down By press of language and the awful frown , In vain for mercy shall the culprit plead ; His crime is past , and sentence must ...
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... Prepared to listen , and forbore to teach . " " Then voluble and fierce the wordy man Through a long chain of favourite horrors ran : First , of the Church , from whose enslaving power , He was deliver'd , and he bless'd the hour ...
... Prepared to listen , and forbore to teach . " " Then voluble and fierce the wordy man Through a long chain of favourite horrors ran : First , of the Church , from whose enslaving power , He was deliver'd , and he bless'd the hour ...
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Abel ALBEMARLE STREET Aldborough answer'd antè appear'd aunt beauty behold BOROUGH bosom call'd Castle of Otranto comfort Crabbe Crabbe's cried crime Cymbeline dare deed delight disdain dread dream dull Dunciad Edinburgh Review fair fancy fate father fear fear'd feel felt fill'd fix'd fled foes fond friendly pair gain'd gentle GEORGE CRABBE give gloom grace grave grew grief grieved Gwyn happy heart honour hope hour humble Jonas kind knew labour lady live look look'd Lord lover maid meads of asphodel mind Normanston nymph o'er pain pass'd passion Peter PETER GRIMES pity pleasure poet poor possess'd praise pray'd pride remain'd rest scene scorn seem'd shame sigh sigh'd silent smile sorrow soul speak spirit strong sweet Sybil TALE terror thee thou art thought trembling Twas vex'd widow youth
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Page 135 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 37 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 48 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 225 - I have heard of your paintings too, well enough ; God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.
Page 205 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 10 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 107 - The great cause of the present deplorable state of English poetry is to be attributed to that absurd and systematic depreciation of Pope, in which, for the last few years, there has been a kind of epidemical concurrence.
Page 247 - Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 247 - Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, . The course of true love never did run smooth : J But, either it was different in blood ; — Lys.
Page 10 - I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it...