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 ancient beauty beloved Ben Jonson blessed book is dedicated Brown Candace Wheeler Charles Charles Kingsley Christian dear dedicate this book Dedication of Books devoted divine Earl edition Edmund Spenser England English Ernest Thompson Seton esteem excellent faithful father flowers friendship George give glory Grace gracious grateful gratitude happy hath heart Henry Henry Van Dyke Highness History Holiness hope illustrious James John John Crosby Brown John S. C. Abbott King labour Lady Laurence Hutton learned little book living Lord Majesty Majesty's Mary memory mother never noble offer patron Poems poet praise present Prince Queen respectfully dedicated Reverend Right Honourable Robert Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson Royal sacred song soul spirit story sweet thee Theodore Roosevelt thine things Thomas thou thought tion Translated unto verses Wheatley's Dedication wife William wish women worthy write
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Página 392 - 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 332 - 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 328 - 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 5 - 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 421 - 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 238 - No man hath walked along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes...
Página 199 - There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd : the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not infrequently; the artist rarely; rarelier still, the clergyman ; the physician almost as a rule. He Is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization ; and when that .stage of man is done with, and only remembered to...
Página 336 - 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 371 - O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now ? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain ! Somewhere, surely, afar, In the sounding labor-house vast Of being, is practised that strength, Zealous, beneficent, firm...
Página 200 - 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.