Relics of Genius: Visits to the Last Homes of Poets, Painters, and Players, with Biographical Sketches1859 - 80 pages |
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Page 275 - Sheriff of this County From 1800 to 1832. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my wither'd cheek." One of the happiest periods of Scott's life was during his residence at Ashestiel, on the Tweed, where he
Page 222 - stray'd, A stranger yet to pain: I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 240 - Ah ! there my young footsteps in infancy wander'd ; My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid ; On chieftains long perish'd my memory ponder'd, As daily I strode through the piue-cover'd glade. I sought not my home till the day's dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star;
Page 260 - the spot been sought by thousands, attesting the worth of mind, and its power over adverse circumstances :— " Bid thy thoughts hover o'er that spot, Boy-minstrel, in thy dreaming hour, And know, however low his lot, A poet's pride and power. " Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines— Shrines to no code or creed confined— The Delphian vales, the
Page 151 - The celebrated Author and Composer, Who departed this life July 25th, 1814, Aged Sixty-nine. This stone is placed by his disconsolate wife and daughter, as a dutiful token to the most affectionate and best of husbands. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft ; Faithful below he did his duty, And now he 's gone aloft.
Page 204 - pleasure; such, perhaps, As may have had no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremember'd acts Of kindness and of love.
Page 261 - piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.
Page 178 - In Twickenham's bowers, and for their Pope implore The healing god—to royal Hampton's pile, To Claremont's terraced height, and Esher's groves. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung. O vale of bliss! 0 softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Page 78 - at the age of fifty.nine. In Whitefield's Chapel, Tottenham Court Road, will be found a plain tablet, with his own characteristic inscription :—" What I was as an artist seemed to me of some importance while I lived; but what I was as a believer in Jesus Christ is the only tiling of importance to me now.
Page 263 - which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling and interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.