Bare SoulsHarper & Brothers, 1924 - 340 páginas |
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Página xi
... writing letters . But , other things being equal , the habit of facility with the pen gives letter - writing an added fluency and effectiveness . Moreover , the letters of distinguished persons , especially authors , are more likely to ...
... writing letters . But , other things being equal , the habit of facility with the pen gives letter - writing an added fluency and effectiveness . Moreover , the letters of distinguished persons , especially authors , are more likely to ...
Página xii
... writer's own heart . Such analysis , when carried to excess , always tends to interfere with the play of natural instincts and im- pulses , to give a certain air of unreality and artifici- ality to the simplest and intensest habits and ...
... writer's own heart . Such analysis , when carried to excess , always tends to interfere with the play of natural instincts and im- pulses , to give a certain air of unreality and artifici- ality to the simplest and intensest habits and ...
Página 5
... eliminate intentional deception on the writer's part as , alas , we cannot always , and if we are competent to weigh and measure , and , as it were , dissect his language and expressions , we may 5 A CLUE TO THE LABYRINTH OF SOULS.
... eliminate intentional deception on the writer's part as , alas , we cannot always , and if we are competent to weigh and measure , and , as it were , dissect his language and expressions , we may 5 A CLUE TO THE LABYRINTH OF SOULS.
Página 6
... write other things than speeches , and some men have kindly described for us their own souls . There are clues enough here , of course ; yet even here the clues are less numerous than one might desire , and especially they are less ...
... write other things than speeches , and some men have kindly described for us their own souls . There are clues enough here , of course ; yet even here the clues are less numerous than one might desire , and especially they are less ...
Página 8
... write at all write letters , and letters afford , on the whole , the most general and the most satisfactory clues for the naturalist of souls . Letter writing in some form goes back to the earliest written records that we have , though ...
... write at all write letters , and letters afford , on the whole , the most general and the most satisfactory clues for the naturalist of souls . Letter writing in some form goes back to the earliest written records that we have , though ...
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admirable amusing April April 13 ardor August August 25 Barton beauty Charles Lamb charm Coleridge Correspondance D'Argental dance delicate delight dilettante doubt dreams Edward Fitzgerald enjoyed eternal everything exquisite Fanny Fanny Brawne February February 18 feel Flaubert Frederic Tennyson friends genius George and Georgiana George Sand Georgiana Keats give glory Gray hated heart hell Horace Walpole human imagination intense interest JOHN KEATS June Keats's knew laugh letter writers literary live London Madame du Deffand Madame X Mann March March 18 Mason matter melancholy ment mocking nature nerves ness never Newton November October one's passion perfect perhaps phrase play poet poetry quiet seems September sometimes soul spirit splendor strange sure tenderness things THOMAS GRAY thought tion touch trifles Unwin verses vivid Voltaire Voltaire's Walpole's Wharton WILLIAM COWPER women words write youth
Pasajes populares
Página 166 - But ah! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary!
Página 220 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Página 311 - We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show...
Página 105 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle : but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass, to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round,...
Página 192 - Your sun and moon and skies and hills and lakes affect me no more, or scarcely come to me in more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof, beautifully painted but unable to satisfy the mind...
Página 82 - Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining: not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Página 83 - Must I plunge into metaphysics ? Alas, I cannot see in the dark ; nature has not furnished me with the optics of a cat. Must I pore upon mathematics? Alas, I cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle.
Página 232 - Measure time by what is done and to die in 6 hours could plans be brought to conclusions, the looking upon the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Earth and its contents as materials to form greater things, that is to say, ethereal things.
Página 227 - That it is so is no fault of mine. No ! though it may sound a little paradoxical, it is as good as I had power to make it by myself.
Página 230 - I have asked myself so often why I should be a Poet more than other Men, — seeing how great a thing it is, — how great things are to be gained by it — What a thing to be in the Mouth of Fame — that at last the Idea has grown so monstrously beyond my seeming Power of attainment that the other day I nearly consented with myself to drop into a Phaeton...