The Romance of an Elderly Poet: A Hitherto Unknown Chapter in the Life of George Crabbe, Revealed by His Ten Years' Correspondence with Elizabeth Charter, 1815-1825

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S. Paul & Company, 1913 - 309 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 216 - I find, however, no particular elevation of spirit, and will do as you desire ; indeed, your desire must be very unlike yours, if I were not glad to comply with it ; for the world has not spoiled you, Mary, I do believe : now it has me. I have been absorbed in its mighty vortex, and gone into the midst of its greatness, and joined in its festivities and frivolities, and been intimate with its children. You may like me very well, my kind friend, while the purifying water, and your more effectual imagination,...
الصفحة 172 - The sermon good ; but the preacher thought proper to apologise for a severity which he had not used. Write some lines in the solitude of Somerset House, not fifty yards from the Thames on one side, and the Strand on the other ; but as quiet as the sands of Arabia.
الصفحة 64 - Of years I have now half a century pass'd, And none of the fifty so bless'd as the last. How it happens my troubles thus daily should cease, And my happiness thus with my years should increase; This defiance of Nature's more general laws You alone can explain, who alone are the cause.
الصفحة 73 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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