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 Genera; Introduction, Volume 1G. P. Putnam, 1852 - English literature |
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... hope to be a reader of our volumes . When Gray and Walpole were at Eton , they partitioned out the fields into territories of which they had read in books , and so ruled over them and sent ambassadors to one another . These are the sort ...
... hope to be a reader of our volumes . When Gray and Walpole were at Eton , they partitioned out the fields into territories of which they had read in books , and so ruled over them and sent ambassadors to one another . These are the sort ...
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... hope many a man of business will refresh himself with the short pieces in these volumes , and return to his work the fitter to baffle craft , and yet retain a reverence for simplicity . Every man who has a right sense of business ...
... hope many a man of business will refresh himself with the short pieces in these volumes , and return to his work the fitter to baffle craft , and yet retain a reverence for simplicity . Every man who has a right sense of business ...
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... hope of the world to come . The very greatest genius , after all , is not the greatest thing in the world , any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky . It is a concentration of some of its greatest powers ...
... hope of the world to come . The very greatest genius , after all , is not the greatest thing in the world , any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky . It is a concentration of some of its greatest powers ...
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... account for others , and embraced with patient cheerfulness , it may , with few exceptions , even be one of the best . We hope our volume may light into the hands Z of such men . Every extract which is made 22 INTRODUCTION .
... account for others , and embraced with patient cheerfulness , it may , with few exceptions , even be one of the best . We hope our volume may light into the hands Z of such men . Every extract which is made 22 INTRODUCTION .
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... hope that the " knowing reader " will not think we have assisted inquiry too often . We hate , with our friends the little boys , nothing so much as the " Moral " that officiously treads the heels of the great Æsop , and which assumes ...
... hope that the " knowing reader " will not think we have assisted inquiry too often . We hate , with our friends the little boys , nothing so much as the " Moral " that officiously treads the heels of the great Æsop , and which assumes ...
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Page 48 - 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 170 - 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 ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair, Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 95 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 31 - 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 168 - 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 227 - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon...
Page 179 - Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep...
Page 226 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Page 226 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...