Little Masterpieces of Autobiography, Tom 4Doubleday, Page, 1908 |
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... given me any capacity for knowledge or not , she has at any rate given me a very strong predilection for literary pur- suits , and I am almost confident in believing , that , if I can ever rise in the world , it must be by the exercise ...
... given me any capacity for knowledge or not , she has at any rate given me a very strong predilection for literary pur- suits , and I am almost confident in believing , that , if I can ever rise in the world , it must be by the exercise ...
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... given of seeing how a poet , when he has seized upon the central thought of a poem , will some- times work industriously at its final form . The first draft was written upon the blank spaces of a letter from Charles Sumner . The first ...
... given of seeing how a poet , when he has seized upon the central thought of a poem , will some- times work industriously at its final form . The first draft was written upon the blank spaces of a letter from Charles Sumner . The first ...
Strona 57
... given up ; but meet- ing with Fergusson's Scottish Poems , I strung anew my wildly sounding lyre with emulating vigour . When my father died , his all went among the hell - hounds that growl in the kennel of justice ; but we made a ...
... given up ; but meet- ing with Fergusson's Scottish Poems , I strung anew my wildly sounding lyre with emulating vigour . When my father died , his all went among the hell - hounds that growl in the kennel of justice ; but we made a ...
Strona 58
... given me one or two of the principal qualifications for a place among those who have lost the chart , and mistaken the reckoning of rationality . I gave up my part of the farm to my brother ; in truth it was only nominally mine ; and ...
... given me one or two of the principal qualifications for a place among those who have lost the chart , and mistaken the reckoning of rationality . I gave up my part of the farm to my brother ; in truth it was only nominally mine ; and ...
Strona 62
... given very few , if any , of the profession , the talents of shining in every species of composition . I shall try ( for until trial it is impossible to know ) whether she has qualified me to shine in any one . worst of it is , by the ...
... given very few , if any , of the profession , the talents of shining in every species of composition . I shall try ( for until trial it is impossible to know ) whether she has qualified me to shine in any one . worst of it is , by the ...
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Strona 50 - I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an /Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rattan when I looked and fingered over her little hand, to pick out the cruel nettlestings and thistles.
Strona 5 - I most eagerly aspire after future eminence in literature; my whole soul burns most ardently for it, and every earthly thought centres in it.
Strona 102 - The deep remembrance of the sense I had of being utterly neglected and hopeless; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that, day by day, what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, was passing away from me, never to be brought back any more; cannot be written.
Strona 43 - Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart; and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.
Strona 46 - I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors. The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in was the Vision of Mirza, and a hymn of Addison's, beginning, How are thy servants blest, O Lord!
Strona 11 - ... gentle face — the face of one long dead — Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Here in this room she died ; and soul more white Never through martyrdom of fire was led To its repose ; nor can in books be read The legend of a life more benedight. There is a mountain in the distant West That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines Displays a cross of snow upon its side. Such is the cross I wear upon my breast These eighteen years, through all...
Strona 46 - Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.
Strona 49 - In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below...
Strona 108 - I do not write resentfully or angrily: for I know how all these things have worked together to make me what I am : but I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, I never can forget, that my mother was warm for my being sent back.
Strona 52 - The collection of songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic-craft, such as it is.