Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... thing , the publica- tion of my work . · At length it was finished , and off it went , two volumes duodecimo , with a modest blue cover , and its name on the back . Long enough , thought I , have I labored in obscurity , but now- -I ...
... thing , the publica- tion of my work . · At length it was finished , and off it went , two volumes duodecimo , with a modest blue cover , and its name on the back . Long enough , thought I , have I labored in obscurity , but now- -I ...
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... thing , first brought it into disrepute , and a few would - be critics ridiculed it to death . Herbert and Rogers , merchant tailors , lost a customer , and I a fortune , and my un- happy book was used to carry greasy sausages and bad ...
... thing , first brought it into disrepute , and a few would - be critics ridiculed it to death . Herbert and Rogers , merchant tailors , lost a customer , and I a fortune , and my un- happy book was used to carry greasy sausages and bad ...
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... thing more exquisite still . Novel writing was out of the question . I had manufactured one , and if the public did not like it , they might let it alone ; and so they did -the more shame for them . " I felt proud as Lucifer in my ...
... thing more exquisite still . Novel writing was out of the question . I had manufactured one , and if the public did not like it , they might let it alone ; and so they did -the more shame for them . " I felt proud as Lucifer in my ...
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... thing horrible , to tantalize and terrify my poor , tired brain ; and I arose with a head ache and a heart ache , and no very great opinion of any one in the world , but myself . " You have convinced me that generosity has not 99 taken ...
... thing horrible , to tantalize and terrify my poor , tired brain ; and I arose with a head ache and a heart ache , and no very great opinion of any one in the world , but myself . " You have convinced me that generosity has not 99 taken ...
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... thing in the world sweeter than woman's face and form , as nature created them , to look upon every fashion which tends to distort them as something impertinent and of- fensive ; and when I have caught myself admiring a female the most ...
... thing in the world sweeter than woman's face and form , as nature created them , to look upon every fashion which tends to distort them as something impertinent and of- fensive ; and when I have caught myself admiring a female the most ...
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Page 70 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 195 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
Page 7 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 98 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 192 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 158 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Page 188 - That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 89 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 153 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Page 3 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.