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It was a nasty night for any sort of a sleeper; for a dead one it was very bad. Glover walked into the Lalla Rookh vestibule, around the smoking-room passage, and into the main aisle of the car, dimly lighted at the hind end. He made his way to the stateroom.
His prose writings, however, display more consistency of principle than the laureate's: his verses more taste. We will venture to oppose his Third Canto of the Story of Rimini for classic elegance and natural feeling to any equal number of lines from Mr. Southey's Epics or from Mr. Moore's Lalla Rookh.
'LALLA ROOKH. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 22. We have been a little cruise in the yacht over to the Eddystone lighthouse, and my sea-legs seem very well on.
They were, with commendable taste, named after three celebrated poems by three distinguished British poets, the "Lalla Rookh," the "Corsair," and "Marmion."
On descending from the vehicle, and looking in at the hut door, we perceived lying in his shirt-sleeves on a couch composed of grass-tree tops covered with blankets and a rug made of opossum skins, the illustrious Meliboeus himself, with a short black pipe in his mouth, and a handsome edition of "Lalla Rookh" in his hand.
Is it enough? or, must I, while a thrill Lives in your sapient bosoms, cheat you still?" Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh, "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan" The fire, the canoe, and the spring, near which Deerslayer commenced his retreat, would have stood in the angles of a triangle of tolerably equal sides.
I'll be glad to avail myself of both until I can get a car of my own sent up from San Francisco. Till Wednesday night, then. Good- bye." As Bryce Cardigan hung up, he heaved a slight sigh, and a parody on a quatrain from "Lalla Rookh" ran through his mind: I never loved a dear gazelle, To glad me with its limpid eye, But when I learned to love it well, The gol-darned thing was sure to die!
I have been down to the seashore and smelt the salt sea, and like it; and I have seen the Hooper pointing her great bow seaward, while light smoke rises from her funnels, telling that the fires are being lighted; and sorry as I am to be without you, something inside me answers to the call to be off and doing. "Lalla Rookh, Plymouth, June 22.
It was well known that Sir Walter Scott had made a large fortune by his verses and novels; that Moore got L3,000 for his 'Lalla Rookh, and Crabbe L2,000 for his 'Tales of the Hall; that Southey had no reason to be dissatisfied with the pecuniary result of his epics and articles, nor Mr.
The first book my boy remembered to have heard him read was Moore's Lalla Rookh, of which he formed but a vague notion, though while he struggled after its meaning he took all its music in, and began at once to make rhymes of his own.
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