The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Part 1Harper, 1851 - 579 pages |
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Page 407 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 280 - Here is a man at Keswick, who acts upon me as my own ghost would do. He is just what I was in 1794. His name is Shelley, son to the member for Shoreham ; with =£6000 a rear entailed upon him, and as much more in his father's power to cut off.
Page 187 - I am inclined to believe that we do not have catechumens taught to say "to do my duty in that state of life into which it has pleased God to call me" until we have the beginning of movements of individuals away from their birth positions in society.
Page 118 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled ; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Page 280 - ... understands him, and does him full justice. I tell him that all the difference between us is that he is nineteen, and I am thirty-seven, and I dare say it will not be very long before I shall succeed in convincing him that he may be a true philosopher, and do a great deal of good with...
Page 384 - What he produced was too good in itself and too inoffensive to become popular; for it attacked nothing and nobody ; and it had the fault of his Italian models, that the transition from what is serious to what is burlesque was capricious. Lord Byron immediately followed; first with his Beppo, which implied the profligacy of the writer, and, lastly, with his Don Juan, which is a foul blot on the literature of his country, an act of high treason on English poetry.
Page 74 - He told me that the strength of my imagination had intoxicated my reason, and that the acuteness of my reason had given a directing influence to my imagination.
Page 83 - He would pronounce the word Damn with such an emphasis as left a doleful echo in his auditors
Page 323 - Aloft on yonder bench, with arms dispread, My boy stood, shouting there his father's name, Waving his hat around his happy head ; And there, a younger group, his sisters came : Smiling they stood with looks of pleased surprise, While tears of joy were seen in elder eyes. "Soon...
Page 199 - I am tired, and then turn to any thing else till supper, and this is my life — which if it be not a very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish.