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Page 134 - I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Page 93 - And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes across the lakes And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Page 235 - ALL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read, or a pencil and a penny version-book...
Page 384 - The State in its Relations with the Church. BY WE GLADSTONE, Esq. , Student of Christ Church, and MP for Newark. 8vo. Second Edition. London : 1839. THE author of this volume is a young man of unblemished character, and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories...
Page 147 - He is no arguer, he is judgment (Nature accepts him absolutely), He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing...
Page 209 - Georgia's full and sweet approval he might "wrap the drapery of his couch about him and lie down to pleasant dreams...
Page 134 - I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seems the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were making our Western wits fat and mean.
Page 136 - ... an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record.
Page 321 - Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Page 367 - WRITTEN BY HERSELF. Third and Cheaper Edition, 1 vol., 6s. bound. " Nothing half so true or so touching in the delineation of Scottish character has appeared since Gait published his ' Annals of the Parish,' and this is purer and deeper than Gait, and even more absolutely and simply true.