The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentC.S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich Street, 1820 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) |
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Page 130
... poets sing , de- lights to visit a cottage , it must be the cottage of an English peasant . The proneness to rural life among the higher classes of the English , has had a great and sa- lutary effect upon the national character . I do ...
... poets sing , de- lights to visit a cottage , it must be the cottage of an English peasant . The proneness to rural life among the higher classes of the English , has had a great and sa- lutary effect upon the national character . I do ...
Page 133
... poets - that have continued down . from " the flower and the leaf " of Chaucer , and have brought into our closets all the fresh- ness and fragrance of the dewy landscape . The pastoral writers of other countries appear as if they had ...
... poets - that have continued down . from " the flower and the leaf " of Chaucer , and have brought into our closets all the fresh- ness and fragrance of the dewy landscape . The pastoral writers of other countries appear as if they had ...
Page 136
... words of a modern English poet , who has depicted it with remarkable felicity : Through each gradation , from the castled hall , The city dome , the villa crown'd with shade , But chief from modest mansions numberless , In town or 136.
... words of a modern English poet , who has depicted it with remarkable felicity : Through each gradation , from the castled hall , The city dome , the villa crown'd with shade , But chief from modest mansions numberless , In town or 136.
Page 137
... hid in rocky cleft , Smiles , though ' tis looking only at the sky . * * From a Poem on the death of the Princess Charlotte , by the Reverend Rann Kennedy , △ м . 18 THE BROKEN HEART . THE BROKEN HEART . I never 137.
... hid in rocky cleft , Smiles , though ' tis looking only at the sky . * * From a Poem on the death of the Princess Charlotte , by the Reverend Rann Kennedy , △ м . 18 THE BROKEN HEART . THE BROKEN HEART . I never 137.
Page 141
... poets and novelists , that ne- ver existed in real life . My observations on human nature have convinced me of the con- trary , and have satisfied me , that however the surface of the character may be chilled and frozen by the cares of ...
... poets and novelists , that ne- ver existed in real life . My observations on human nature have convinced me of the con- trary , and have satisfied me , that however the surface of the character may be chilled and frozen by the cares of ...
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