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These qualities, among others, gave to such books as Essays in Criticism, Friendship's Garland, and Culture and Anarchy, an interest and a value quite independent of their literary merit. And they are displayed in their most serious and deliberate form, dissociated from all mere fun and vivacity, in his Discourses in America.
As a poet who knew his business, he could not applaud them for a thing which in general estimation was not highly reputable. Addressing himself to Britain, "Thy favourites grow not up by fortune's sport, Or from the crimes or follies of a Court; On the firm basis of desert they rise, From long-tried faith, and friendship's holy ties."
Spirit of the tories assassination of lieutenant Marion the murderer murdered Marion's reflections on the death of his nephew his manner of rewarding extraordinary courage among his men sketch of the brave boy Gwinn. "If mortal hands thy peace destroy, Or friendship's gifts bestow, Wilt thou to man ascribe the joy To man impute the woe?
I was quite ashamed but I have done all I could for him by giving the Friendship's Offerings to all the fine people I could think of. The set of Scott's Works made a nice New Year's gift for Harriet; she had seen this edition at Edinburgh and particularly wished for it. The L5 I have sent to Harriet Beaufort to be laid out in books for Fanny Stewart.
Friend, hell!" he laughed. "You must have it bad to put on all these stunts for sweet friendship's sake. You wouldn't even quit when she told you to." "I believed she was compelled to say what she did to me," replied West quietly. "That she was in Hobart's power, afraid of her life. There was no other explanation of her strange action possible." "Is that so?"
I have created in my Carlos' soul, A paradise for millions! Oh, my dream Was lovely! But the will of Providence Has summoned me away, before my hour, From this my beauteous work. His Roderigo Soon shall be his no more, and friendship's claim Will be transferred to love.
We shall never do any good till we get a man like Guizot, or W. von Humboldt to deal with the matter, men who have the highest mental training themselves, and this we shall probably in this country never get." In the wittiest of all his books, and one of the wisest, Friendship's Garland, he thus summarized the too-usual result of our "grand, old, fortifying, classical curriculum."
There is a paper remaining which contains minute studies of, and criticisms upon, the engravings in "Friendship's Offering for 1829;" showing how she had early formed those habits of close observation, and patient analysis of cause and effect, which served so well in after-life as handmaids to her genius. The way in which Mr.
At this very instant, when I hold your life in my hands, when it is in my power to hand you over to justice by a word, and when I propose partly for old friendship's sake and partly because I am ashamed that a fellow-countryman of mine should have been such a blackguard to let you go, you are fool enough to tell me that my mercy has no effect upon you, and that you will do your best to be revenged upon me.
In this last he gave free rein to the morbid imaginations to which his unhappy affaire de coeur and the mental excitement of the period predisposed him. Harrison, his literary Mentor, approved these poems, and inserted them in "Friendship's Offering," along with love-songs and other exercises in verse.
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