Letters on England, Band 2H. Colburn and Company, 1823 |
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Seite 32 - Art a delight — thou shin'st not on my heart. And you, ye crags, upon whose extreme edge I stand, and on the torrent's brink beneath, Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs In dizziness of distance ; when a leap, A stir, a motion, even a breath would bring My breast upon its rocky bosom's bed To rest for ever — wherefore do I pause?
Seite 230 - Nothing can be more piquant and attractive than the melange formed by this infinite variety of style and matter. It makes readers where it does not find them; incipient readers it strengthens and confirms ; and confirmed ones, or even those whose appetites are sated by over-indulgence, it rouses anew.
Seite 84 - In fact, if there were not an evident appearance of his feiling all that he says, at the time he says it, he could be considered in no other light than as a wonderful talking machine, that talks on and on, because it can't help it. But, perhaps, Coleridge's eloquence might, with more truth, be compared to Catalani's singing.
Seite 137 - Looking down the river, and Immediately joining the bridge close to the embankment, rises the noble front of Somerset House — the finest object of the kind in London, not excepting the new Houses of Parliament, which appear too low.
Seite 281 - Bridge, &c. &e. ; the whole forming a scene of stately and impressive beauty not to be conceived of without seeing it, and not to be surpassed. Let us now return to our inn to breakfast, after having thus completed, I hope not uninterestingly, the first portion of our summer's day. There are few things pleasanter, upon occasion, than the regular confusion of a well-frequented inn, in a populous country town. It keeps speculation perpetually alive. In such a scene the mind can never flag, and can...
Seite 111 - It come to us in our homes on the face of the earth, and makes us content with them ; — it meets us with a smile, and what is better, makes us meet others with a smile ; — it shows us what is good and beautiful, and teaches us to love that goodness and beauty, wherever we find them. — To conclude these scattered and imperfect remarks, — if Mr. Hunt has not that transcendant genius which can lift us from the realities of daily life, into the
Seite 271 - ... his,) will sally forth, and never look behind us till we reach the little elevation on the Henley road, to the east of the city. How delicious is this prime of the morning ! It is to a summer's day what the spring is to the year,• or childhood to human life. The dew hangs, like a blessing, on the glittering leaves ; and the mists are rising from the grass, like the smoke of an acceptable sacrifice, steaming up to the heavens. Hark to those heifers cropping the crisp herbage. I know of no sound...
Seite 201 - Then what a traveller he is 1 the clouds are his chariot, and the winds his horses — and he never stops to change or pay turnpikes, but goes all round the globe in a single night,— calling at the moon in his way. And what a delicious compagnon de voyage he has...
Seite 32 - ... turned, in a moment, into dust and ashes. He finds that his spells are powerless, except to give him all that he does not want; so that even the desperate hope which had accompanied his quest after superhuman aid has now left him, and he is more utterly desolate than ever. Abandoning, and therefore abandoned by, Heaven, it is in vain that he flies to Nature.
Seite 285 - ... the present paper is not one of this peremptory kind ; on the contrary, it claims the singular merit of being adapted to all classes of readers, — those who do choose to read it, and those who do not : and I hope the worthy proprietors of the New Monthly Magazine have given it credit accordingly ! Of what remains to fill up the rest of the day, and complete our hasty view of a few of the architectural and natural beauties of Oxford, I shall choose the splendid collection of buildings forming...