Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysPhillips, Sampson,, 1855 - 368 من الصفحات |
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... writing poetry , receiving visits , full of come threnodies from all the four winds , mostly life and business , when instantly some para- on very splay - footed metre . Thewhole of which graph opens under him , like one of the trap- is ...
... writing poetry , receiving visits , full of come threnodies from all the four winds , mostly life and business , when instantly some para- on very splay - footed metre . Thewhole of which graph opens under him , like one of the trap- is ...
الصفحة 9
... writing - desk , with few or no books about him , but merely with one or two drawers containing excerpts and manu- scripts . The jingle of the household operations seemed not at all to disturb him , any more than did the cooing of the ...
... writing - desk , with few or no books about him , but merely with one or two drawers containing excerpts and manu- scripts . The jingle of the household operations seemed not at all to disturb him , any more than did the cooing of the ...
الصفحة 11
... writing . No story proceeds without the must erratic digressions , and voluminous tagrags rolling after it in many a snaky twine . Ever and anon there occurs some " Extra - leaf , " with its satirical petition , programme , or other ...
... writing . No story proceeds without the must erratic digressions , and voluminous tagrags rolling after it in many a snaky twine . Ever and anon there occurs some " Extra - leaf , " with its satirical petition , programme , or other ...
الصفحة 13
... writing represent his real manner of thinking and existing ? With what degree of freedom does it allow this ... writer is not to be of this or that external make and fashion , but , in every fashion , to be genuine , vigorous , alive ...
... writing represent his real manner of thinking and existing ? With what degree of freedom does it allow this ... writer is not to be of this or that external make and fashion , but , in every fashion , to be genuine , vigorous , alive ...
الصفحة 22
... writers , who blaze out and are extinguished with the popular delusion which they flatter , to those few who are admitted to shine with a pure and lasting lustre ; to whom , by common consent , the eyes of the people are turned , as to ...
... writers , who blaze out and are extinguished with the popular delusion which they flatter , to those few who are admitted to shine with a pure and lasting lustre ; to whom , by common consent , the eyes of the people are turned , as to ...
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الصفحة 330 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
الصفحة 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
الصفحة 67 - Audacious ; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand' fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft...
الصفحة 105 - A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
الصفحة 108 - Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty.
الصفحة 107 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a halfforgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of
الصفحة 328 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
الصفحة 335 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleet-ditch.
الصفحة 97 - ... a soul like an ^Eolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody." And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing...
الصفحة 107 - I may truly say Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786 — 7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people ; and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner,...