Dedications: An Anthology of the Forms Used from the Earliest Days of Book-making to the Present TimeMary Elizabeth Brown G. P. Putnam, 1913 - 470 páginas |
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admiration affectionately dedicated affectionately inscribed beauty beloved blessed book is dedicated brother Brown Candace Wheeler Charles Charles Kingsley Charles Rann Kennedy Christian dear dedicate this book Dedication of Books delight devoted divine Earl earth edition Ernest Thompson Seton esteem excellent faithful father flowers friendship garden George give glory Grace grateful gratitude happy hath heart Henry Henry Van Dyke History Holy hope humble illustrious inspiration James John John Crosby Brown John Greenleaf Whittier John S. C. Abbott King Lady Laurence Hutton little book living Lord Majesty Majesty's Mary memory mother never noble offer patron Poems poet praise Prince Queen respectfully dedicated Reverend Robert Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson Royal servant sing song soul spirit story sweet thee thine things Thomas thou thought tion Translated unto verses Wheatley's Dedication wife William wish write written
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Página 394 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Página 334 - Love, you saw me gather men and women, Live or dead or fashioned by my fancy, Enter each and all, and use their service*, Speak from every mouth, - the speech, a poem.
Página 330 - WHOSE is the love that gleaming 'through the world, Wards off the poisonous arrow of its scorn ? Whose is the warm and partial praise, Virtue's most sweet reward ? Beneath whose looks did my reviving soul Riper in truth and virtuous daring grow ? Whose eyes have I gazed fondly on, And loved mankind the more ? HARRIET I on thine : — thou wert my purer mind ; Thou wert the inspiration of my song ; Thine are these early wilding flowers, Though garlanded by me.
Página 7 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water," and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 423 - Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age, Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair of wit, Indicting and arraigning every day Something they call a play.
Página 240 - No man hath walked along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes...
Página 338 - TO the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings — the friend and wife whose exalted sense of truth and right was my strongest incitement, and whose approbation was my chief reward — / dedicate this volume.
Página 202 - Generosity he has, such as is possible to those who practice an art, never to those who drive a trade; discretion, tested by a hundred secrets; tact, tried in a thousand embarrassments; and what are more important, Herculean cheerfulness and courage. So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sick room, and often enough, though not so often as he wishes, brings healing.
Página 429 - Now, sir ; if the writer be a fellow that hath either epigrammed you, or hath had a flirt at your mistress, or hath brought either your feather, or your red beard, or your little legs, &c., on the stage ; you shall disgrace him worse than by tossing him in a blanket, or giving him the bastinado in a tavern, if, in the middle of his play, be it pastoral or comedy, moral or tragedy, you rise with a screwed and discontented face from your stool to be gone.
Página 92 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.