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It was the poet's sensibility that urged him to make the most extraordinary sacrifice that ever poet made; he wished to get rid entirely of that poetical fame to which he owed everything, and which was at once his pleasure, his pride, and his property.
Yes, sir; they had a deadfall there, with every kind of vice rampant that has ever been legalized any place, and several kinds that ain't ever been; they done everything, from strong-arm work to short changing, and they was getting by with it by reason of calling it Ye Olde Tyme Mining Camp of '49, or something poetical like that.
It is well known to nice observers of the human mind, that the strangest fancies often come into the thoughts at a moment when we might least expect them; and though, assuredly, I was not then in a very poetical or imaginative humour, I contrived to shape out of the inspiring scene I was looking upon a figure to soothe my disappointed spirit.
Like GLENDOWER's Spirits, any one may order them away; "but will they go, when you do order them?" 'Mongst horrid shapes, shrieks, sights, &c. At which we beg our fair readers not to be alarmed; for we can assure them they are only words of course in all poetical Instruments of this nature, and mean no more than the "force and arms" and "instigation of the Devil" in a common Indictment.
She also translated from the French several stories illustrative of various social reforms, and in 1867, being then seventy-five years old, she made a somewhat abridged translation of Lamartine's poetical biography of Joan of Arc. This was Sarah's most finished literary work, and aroused in her great enthusiasm.
It was the practice of Hamilton to produce a sonnet on almost every occasion which admitted of poetical treatment, and it was his delight to communicate his verses to his friends all round. When Whewell was producing his "Bridgewater Treatises," he writes to Hamilton in 1833:
"I think I'd begin with 'The Gods of Greece' Louis Dyer, you know and then I'd read them a few carefully-selected passages from the 'Phædrus. Then, by way of something lighter, and more appropriate to their circumstances, I'd give them a course of Virgil the 'Georgics', because, I suppose, most of them are connected with farming, and the 'Eclogues, to initiate them into the poetical side of country life.
"You say right, sir," said the doctor. "He was indeed our last great man Ultimus Romanorum. I have myself read his work, which he called Coll Gwynfa, the Loss of the place of Bliss an admirable translation, sir; highly poetical, and at the same time correct." "Did you know him?" said I.
I was extremely happy and excited over the poetical way in which Peter was calling on my common sense to help him in his crisis, but I felt weighted down with the responsibility. Yes, I understood the great Farrington. He felt as I did that Peter's genius needed to see and help old Dr. Chubb drench Buttercup with a can of condition-mixture.
He sets lessons to her queer maid reading, writing, pronunciation of English. An inferior language to Welsh, for poetical purposes, we are informed. So Janey determining to apply herself to Welsh, and a chameleon Riette dreading that she will be taking a contrary view of the honest souls as she feels them to be when again under Livia's shadow.
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