A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of EnjoymentLeigh Hunt J.P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... give a brief and more general idea of the entertainment which it is pro- posed to set before the purchaser , it may be as well to state in this place , that the book , for the most part , is a collection of passages from such authors as ...
... give a brief and more general idea of the entertainment which it is pro- posed to set before the purchaser , it may be as well to state in this place , that the book , for the most part , is a collection of passages from such authors as ...
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... gives him a right to the comfort ; loving all the good things he ever loved , par- ticularly the books which have been his companions and the childhood which he meets again in the fields ; and neither wishing nor fearing to be gathered ...
... gives him a right to the comfort ; loving all the good things he ever loved , par- ticularly the books which have been his companions and the childhood which he meets again in the fields ; and neither wishing nor fearing to be gathered ...
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... give , and bestow enough on all your friends to answer fully the impatience with which you have been expected . May you grow up to have every accom- plishment that your good friend , the Bishop of Derry , * can already imagine in you ...
... give , and bestow enough on all your friends to answer fully the impatience with which you have been expected . May you grow up to have every accom- plishment that your good friend , the Bishop of Derry , * can already imagine in you ...
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... give up so entirely all those pretty graces . of whim , flutter , and affection , which so many charitable poets have declared to be the prerogative of our sex . Oh ! my poor cousin , to what purpose will you boast this prero- gative ...
... give up so entirely all those pretty graces . of whim , flutter , and affection , which so many charitable poets have declared to be the prerogative of our sex . Oh ! my poor cousin , to what purpose will you boast this prero- gative ...
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... give themselves airs of being disappointed , are by no means to be despised . The men un- envied shine in public ; but it is we must make their homes delightful to them - and , if they provoke us , no less un- comfortable . I do not ...
... give themselves airs of being disappointed , are by no means to be despised . The men un- envied shine in public ; but it is we must make their homes delightful to them - and , if they provoke us , no less un- comfortable . I do not ...
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Page 46 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 29 - 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 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 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.
Page 226 - 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 gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.
Page 137 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?
Page 167 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Page 226 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 164 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 17 - Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.