...losing his beloved isolation and seclusion. He might have said as Wordsworth did long afterwards — " I am not one who much or oft delight To season my...personal talk Of friends who live within an easy walk Or neighbours daily, weekly, in my sight. " Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren...

...— when roused, the most formidable of enemies. * It was otherwise with his friend Wordsworth: — " I am not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk." Sonnets entitled " Personal Talk." Vol. IV. p. 200. May 28th. — Called on Godwin. He was lately with...

...in talk, by the recollection of the four sonnets, so beautiful, and yet beginning so alarmingly, " I am not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with persona] talk." Now, after all, a letter — a genuine letter — is but personal talk. .... April...

...talk, by the recollection of the four sonnets, so beautiful, and yet beginning so alarmingly, — "lam not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk." Now, after all, a letter — a genuine letter — is but personal talk April 2nd. — I had invited...

...stigmatised one line of it as vulgar, and worthy only of having been composed by a country squire.] I. I AM not One who much or oft delight To season my...talk, — Of friends, who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight : And, for my chance-acquaintance, ladies bright, Sons, mothers,...

...that hereby Great gains are mine ; for thus I live remote From evil-speaking ; rancour, nevep sought, I AM not one who much or oft delight To season my...talk, — Of friends, who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight : , .„.,. „...„„ , .„ , .,_,,r_6.,v, And, for my chance-acquamtance,...

...the crown That Wisdom wears, or take his treacherous staff From Knowledge ! • [1837. PEBSONAL TALK. I AM not One who much or oft delight To season my...talk, — Of friends, who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight : And, for my chance-acquaintance, ladies bright, 9 These lines...

...possim. ь OBS. The verb after jut takes the person of ego, tu, &c., not of 'it ' or тая, Т) TSOn . ' I am not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk,1 &c. (Wordsworth.) Exercise 71. [Translate ' / am not one who think.' 486. t.] 487. We must take...

...which were published during his lifetime. This Ode is also another stanztu XX. PERSONAL TALK. I. I AX not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside...talk,— Of friends who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours daily, weekly, in my sight : And, for my chance acquaintance, ladies bright, Sons, mothers,...

...evidently be our duty to refrain from them, following the example set before us by our great moral poet : I am not one who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal ta!k, Of friends who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight. • But surely...