A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich ...J. Murray, 1843 |
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Seite 19 - A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.
Seite 16 - Our present danger from the example of a people, whose character knows no medium, is, with regard to government, a danger from anarchy; a danger of being led, through an admiration of successful fraud...
Seite 99 - Having seen him, it would be impossible to be angry at any thing so diminutive. We talked upon the question of taste, on which we are at issue ; he is a mere child upon that subject. I never met with a man whom it was so easy to checkmate."— (Letter to Will.
Seite 570 - Lenora,' which I heard from the lips of Sir Walter Scott himself, as he was relating it to Mrs. Barbauld. After reminding her that, long before the ballad was printed, she had carried it with her to Edinburgh and read it to Mr. Dugald Stewart , ' he,' said Scott, ' repeated all he could remember of it to me, and this, madam, was what made me a poet. I had several times attempted the more regular kinds of poetry without success ; but here was something that I thought I could do.
Seite 58 - He rose early, and his studies usually engaged his undivided attention till noon, when it was his almost daily practice at all seasons to bathe in the river, at a subscription bath-house constructed on the bank of the stream near its entrance into the city. After this he invariably exercised himself by walking, for -which purpose he always selected a road on the western side of Norwich, leading to the bridge over the Wensum at Hellesdon On this road he was seen almost every day for many years, between...
Seite 451 - Poets should live in cities ; the leisure of the country spoils them. That bucolic contemplation of nature, which spends its ennui in watching for hours the eyelet-holes of a rill's eddies, is very well for a goatherd, and may grace an eclogue; but where fates of empires are at stake, the attention should not be invited to settle on any phenomena not stimulant enough to arrest the attention of a busy man. The engineer, who is sent to reconnoitre, is not to lose his time in zoologizing, entomologizing,...
Seite 80 - Early admiration, almost adoration of Leonidas, early principles of Stoicism derived from the habitual study of Epictetus, and the French Revolution at its height when I was just eighteen — by these my mind was moulded.
Seite 214 - Hartleyan that he has been ; Hartley was ousted by Berkeley, Berkeley by Spinoza, and Spinoza by Plato : when last I saw him, Jacob Behmen had some chance of coming in. The truth is that he plays with systems, and any nonsense will serve him for a text from which he can deduce something new and surprising.
Seite 18 - Let whatever moments you cannot devote to fighting for your country be passed in learning how to fight for it, or preparing the means of war ; for war, war alone, must occupy every mind and every hand in Ireland, until its long oppressed soil be purged of all its enemies.
Seite 112 - His hands were on the harp, his eyes were closed, His head, as if in reverence to receive The inspiration, bent; anon, he raised His glowing countenance and brighter eye, And swept with passionate hand the ringing harp.