The Bookman, Volume 11Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900 |
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Page 120 - When I am writing for myself for the mere sake of the Moment's enjoyment perhaps nature has its course with me, but a Preface is written to the Public, a thing I cannot help looking upon as an Enemy and which I cannot address without feelings of Hostility.
Page 92 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
Page 542 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Page 494 - A Narrative Of The Excursion and Ravages Of The King's Troops Under the Command of General Gage, On the nineteenth of April, 1775. Together With The Depositions Taken by Order of Congress, To support the Truth of it.
Page 526 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 121 - Then he has formed new verbs by the process of cutting off their natural tails, the adverbs, and affixing them to their foreheads; thus, "the wine out-sparkled,
Page 117 - We regret that your brother ever requested us to publish his book, or that our opinion of its talent should have led us to acquiesce in undertaking it. We are, however, much obliged to you for relieving us from the unpleasant necessity of declining any further connexion with it, which we must have done, as we think the curiosity is satisfied, and the sale has dropped.
Page 121 - By this time our readers must be pretty well satisfied as to the meaning of his sentences and the structure of his lines: we now present them with some of the new words with which, in imitation of Mr Leigh Hunt, he adorns our language. We are told that 'turtles passion their voices,' (p. 15); that 'an arbour was nested,
Page 59 - An action for the recovery of real property can only be brought within fifteen years after the right to institute it first accrued to the plaintiff or the person through whom he claims.
Page 121 - the two first books" are, even in his own judgment, unfit to appear, and "the two last" are, it seems, in the same condition; and as two and two make four, and as that is the whole number of books, we have a clear and, we believe, a very just estimate of the entire work. Mr. Keats, however, deprecates criticism on this "immature and feverish work...