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id: 12632
title: Yesterdays with Authors
author: Fields, James Thomas
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  When I was asked, the other day, which of his books I like best, I gave One day he wanted a little service done for a friend, and I remember his chose to talk it was observed that the best things said that day came As I turn over his letters, the old days, delightful to recall, come "I shall think over the prefatory matter for ''Our Old Home'' to-day, great delight of a little story, called "Pet Marjorie," and said he had years and days, you will write or say to me, "My dear Dickens, you My Dear Friend: Your most kind and welcome letter arrived to-day, an English life; the only way really to know the great man is to Your most welcome letter, my very dear friend, arrived to-day, and Never, my dear friend, did I expect to like so well a man who came


id: 12001
title: Studies in Literature
author: Morley, John
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  phases of good men''s minds as the successive scenes of the Revolution have inspired the work and the thoughts of great men. Since the great literary reaction at the end of the last century, men books, or has said such hard things of mere reading. "To do great things a man must live as though he next to them come the great stern, mournful men, like Tacitus, Dante, important public men who think that his work on the _Election of Justice was for a long time the great literary fountain of English of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. of action, said that the mind of a general ought to be like a should blind him to the great practical truths that the end of life politics, as a great man of letters truly wrote, has not "All or editor of a Review of great eminence said to the present writer (who,


id: 8747
title: Wordsworth
author: Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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  Wordsworth''s life which has not already been given to the world, and lake and hill of Wordsworth''s memory, and the love which once they _men_;" of some life like that which a poet of kindred spirit to And inasmuch as this felicity is the great fact of Wordsworth''s life-influence of Nature--which to Wordsworth''s memory seemed the Wordsworth''s mind, was, by general admission, a poet. becoming more and more dominant in Wordsworth''s mind, till the poet And yet Wordsworth''s poetic life was not to close without a great new and individual in the way in which Wordsworth regarded Nature; Poet''s Epitaph_ also; of the poem in which Wordsworth at the he felt already, as Wordsworth after him, that Nature is no mere maxims of Wordsworth''s form of natural religion were uttered before Wordsworth''s own imagination idealized Nature in a different way. And in comparing Wordsworth''s nature with that of


id: 8509
title: Among My Books. Second Series
author: Lowell, James Russell
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  the great triumvirate of Italian poetry, good sense, and culture called life of Dante, that Alighiero the father was still living when the poet certainly true, that the council and influence of Dante were of great time of Spenser, who, like Milton fifty years later, shows that he had The truth is, that it was only as a poet that Dante was great and Like all great artistic minds, Dante was essentially conservative, and, to Dante at this time,--the plan of the great poem for whose completion Perhaps it seems little to say that Dante was the first great poet who that he calls Dante "the great poet of Itaille," while in the [177] In his own comment Dante says, "I tell whither goes my thought, Wordsworth, like most solitary men of strong minds, was a good critic of Like Dante, Milton was forced to become a party by himself.


id: 12933
author: Hubbard, Elbert
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  man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work? stage when the man says, "I always believed it." And so the good old public dining-room, and not a day passes but men and women of note sit at "Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great." Many men have written good books and never tasted fame; but few, like One of America''s great men, in a speech delivered not long ago, said, womanly woman: lives because she ministered to the needs of a great man. influential friends; who had few books and little time to read; who knew "I wish you''d come oftener--I see you so seldom, lad," said the old man, Then after a great, long time Victor Hugo came and lived in the house. look out of the window, he should live in Lant Street, said a great little really good work done than live long and do nothing to speak of.

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  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great


id: 36773
title: Oxford Lectures on Poetry
author: Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
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  matter by means of the form,"''--phrases and statements like these meet The subject is one thing; the poem, matter and form alike, another its subject far more than a good poem on the Fall of Man. It might But a great part even of good poetry, especially in long works, end, or substance, or form of poetry, if we forget that a poem is poetry, and again to certain passages in poems, which we feel to be less wider sense; it is only, like sublimity or prettiness, a particular kind us ask whether sublime things are, in this sense, exceedingly great. It was not Wordsworth''s function to sing, like most great poets, of war, nature that has formed the material of the world''s great poems.[9] great poet''s power of vision, he is still content when he can feel that Ask such a man whether he thinks Shakespeare was at all like


id: 41506
title: Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister''s Love
author: Lee, Edmund
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  However much Wordsworth''s goodness of heart and ardent love of Nature We thus find Miss Wordsworth keeping house with her brother, who, having The year succeeding the time when Miss Wordsworth and her brother became The residence of Miss Wordsworth and her poet brother at Alfoxden, was duties, Miss Wordsworth found time to be a true help to her brother. years which intervened between Miss Wordsworth and her brother going to Lancrigg wood which Wordsworth many years after said he and his sister I cannot refrain from also quoting here the exquisite picture of Mrs. Wordsworth, written after the experience of two years of married life. beautiful in Nature, as well as in life, he became, as Wordsworth says, The following lines written by Mrs. Fletcher, when 82 years of age, after reading Miss Wordsworth''s Miss Wordsworth was for many years a great correspondent, and it is to


id: 42857
title: Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2)
author: Wordsworth, Dorothy
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  no prospect but of streaming rains, faced the mountain-road to Loch open fields, upon hills, in houses, under large rocks, in storms, and in brook, the road, bare hills, floating mists, scattered stones, rocks, in ascending the hill to look down the long reach of the glen. view of Loch Awe, a large lake far below us, among high mountains--one After walking down the hill a long way we came to a bridge, under which end of the lake we had a steep hill to climb, so William and I walked; We walked up the hill again, and, looking down the vale, had a fine view Passed close to many of the houses we had seen on the hill-side, naked rocks, and the lake had appeared narrower and the hills more steep green mountain and glen and fine trees, with houses on the steep.


id: 42856
title: Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
author: Wordsworth, Dorothy
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  _21st._--Coleridge came in the morning, which prevented our walking. _23rd._--William walked with Coleridge in the morning. _2nd._--Went a part of the way home with Coleridge in the morning. _9th._--A clear sunny morning, went to meet Mr. and Mrs. Coleridge. _16th._--William, and Coleridge, and I walked in the Park a short time. William walked in the wood in the morning. _18th._--Walked in the wood, a fine sunny morning, met Coleridge the evening walked on the top of the hill, found Coleridge on our return _Wednesday._--We walked round the lake in the morning and in the evening Coleridge went to bed late, and William and I sate up till went still further, they looked like shapes of water passing over the After tea William went out and walked and wrote that poem, walked a little in the fir grove; went again to the top of the hill, and


