Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts, Perhaps Worthy of Memory, in My Past LifeG. Allen, 1886 - 459 páginas |
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Página 64 - Lastly, and chief of evils. My judgment of right and wrong, and powers of independent action,* were left entirely undeveloped ; because the bridle and blinkers were never taken off me.
Página 411 - gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing...
Página 197 - I went down that evening from the garden -terrace of Schaffhausen with my destiny fixed in all of it that was to be sacred and useful. To that terrace, and the shore of the Lake of Geneva, my heart and faith return to this day, in every impulse that is yet nobly alive in them, and every thought that has in it help or peace.
Página 340 - His ideal of my future, — now entirely formed in conviction of my genius, — was that I should enter at college into the best society, take all the prizes every year, and a double first to finish with ; marry Lady Clara Vere de Vere; write poetry as good as Byron's, only pious ; preach sermons as good as Bossuet's, only Protestant ; be made, at forty, Bishop of Winchester, and at fifty, Primate of England.
Página 259 - The Whigs abuse him ; however, he never left them, and such blunderers deserve neither credit nor compassion. — As for his creditors, — remember, Sheridan never had a shilling, and was thrown, with great powers and passions, into the thick of the world, and placed upon the pinnacle of success, with no other external means to support him in his elevation. Did Fox * * * pay his debts? — or did Sheridan take a subscription? Was the * *'s drunkenness more excusable than his?
Página 262 - With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free; and that the present and next generations...
Página 306 - Far as the eye could reach — that land and its moving or pausing waters ; Arve, and his gates of Cluse, and his glacier fountains ; Rhone, and the infinitude of his sapphire lake, — his peace beneath the narcissus meads of Vevay — his cruelty beneath the promontories of Sierre.
Página 55 - It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother thus taught me, that which cost me most to learn, and which was, to my child's mind, chiefly repulsive — the 119th Psalm— has now become of all the most precious to me, in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God, in opposition to the abuse of it by modern preachers of what they imagine to be His gospel.1 47.
Página 44 - The differences of primal importance which I observed between the nature of this garden, and that of Eden, as I had imagined it, were, that, in this one, all the fruit was forbidden ; and there were no companionable beasts...
Página 3 - Corinthians, the Sermon on the Mount, and most of the Apocalypse, every syllable by heart, and having always a way of thinking with myself what words meant, it was not possible for me, even in the foolishest times of youth, to write entirely superficial or formal English...