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 General Introduction, Volumes 1-2Leigh Hunt G.P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... feels it when he " plays at house ; " the schoolboy , when he is reading in his corner ; the lover , when he thinks of his mistress . Epicurus felt it in his garden ; Horace and Virgil expressed their desire of it in passages which the ...
... feels it when he " plays at house ; " the schoolboy , when he is reading in his corner ; the lover , when he thinks of his mistress . Epicurus felt it in his garden ; Horace and Virgil expressed their desire of it in passages which the ...
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... feel books to be a constituent part of it ; a world , as the poet says , " Round which , with tendrils strong as flesh and blood , Our pastime and our happiness may grow . " What do readers care for " existing things " ( except when ...
... feel books to be a constituent part of it ; a world , as the poet says , " Round which , with tendrils strong as flesh and blood , Our pastime and our happiness may grow . " What do readers care for " existing things " ( except when ...
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... feel and know . The greatest use of genius is but to sub- serve to that end ; to further the means of enjoying it , and to freshen and keep it pure ; as the winds and thunders , which come rarely , are purifiers of the sweet fields ...
... feel and know . The greatest use of genius is but to sub- serve to that end ; to further the means of enjoying it , and to freshen and keep it pure ; as the winds and thunders , which come rarely , are purifiers of the sweet fields ...
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... feel himself wan- dering into solitudes with Gray ; shake honest hands with Sir Roger de Coverley ; be ready to embrace Parson Adams , and to chuck Pounce out of window , instead of the hat ; will travel with Marco Polo and Mungo Park ...
... feel himself wan- dering into solitudes with Gray ; shake honest hands with Sir Roger de Coverley ; be ready to embrace Parson Adams , and to chuck Pounce out of window , instead of the hat ; will travel with Marco Polo and Mungo Park ...
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... feeling , to leave such an impression of it in the reading world as almost to identify it with every- body's own reflections , or constitute it a sort of involuntary mental quotation . Of this kind are Gray's reflections in the church ...
... feeling , to leave such an impression of it in the reading world as almost to identify it with every- body's own reflections , or constitute it a sort of involuntary mental quotation . Of this kind are Gray's reflections in the church ...
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Page 167 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 135 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow ; As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe; And, redolent of Joy and Youth, To breathe a second Spring!
Page 221 - How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 224 - THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to Misery all he had, a tear — He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd), a friend.
Page 27 - 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...
Page 166 - 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.
Page 167 - And on her dulcimer she played, 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!
Page 223 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 148 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Page 152 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion. This authority of the knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life, has a very good effect upon the parish, who are not polite enough to see anything...