Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... Clayfield , a distiller , a worthy , generous man ; " Mr. Alcock , a miniature painter ; T. Cary , a pipe - maker ; H. Kator , a sugar - baker ; W. Smith , a player ; J. Rudhall , an apothecary's apprentice ; such , so far as we can ...
... Clayfield , a distiller , a worthy , generous man ; " Mr. Alcock , a miniature painter ; T. Cary , a pipe - maker ; H. Kator , a sugar - baker ; W. Smith , a player ; J. Rudhall , an apothecary's apprentice ; such , so far as we can ...
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... Clayfield the sincerest thanks my gratitude can give ; and I will and direct that whatever any person may think the pleasure of reading my works worth , they immediately pay their own valuation to him , since it is then become a lawful ...
... Clayfield the sincerest thanks my gratitude can give ; and I will and direct that whatever any person may think the pleasure of reading my works worth , they immediately pay their own valuation to him , since it is then become a lawful ...
Page 225
... Clayfield could come by his letter , as I intended to give him a letter , but did not . In regard to my motives for the supposed rashness , I shall observe that I keep no worse company than myself : I never drink to excess , and have ...
... Clayfield could come by his letter , as I intended to give him a letter , but did not . In regard to my motives for the supposed rashness , I shall observe that I keep no worse company than myself : I never drink to excess , and have ...
Page 227
... Clayfield , the Cat- cotts , & c . , to make a little subscription for him , so as to present him with the parting gift of a few pounds , than the tide of feeling was turned , and from a state of despondency Chatterton gave way to ...
... Clayfield , the Cat- cotts , & c . , to make a little subscription for him , so as to present him with the parting gift of a few pounds , than the tide of feeling was turned , and from a state of despondency Chatterton gave way to ...
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... Clayfield , attributed his bad state of mind to his keeping immoral company . His own allusions , too , scattered through his writings , are quite deci- sive , even were we not to take into account the almost constant tone which runs ...
... Clayfield , attributed his bad state of mind to his keeping immoral company . His own allusions , too , scattered through his writings , are quite deci- sive , even were we not to take into account the almost constant tone which runs ...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
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