The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Volume 6Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 |
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Page 304 - It is, by God's mercy, in our power to attain a degree of self-government, which is essential to our own happiness, and contributes greatly to that of those around us. Take care of over-excitement, and endeavour to keep a quiet mind (even for your health it is the best advice that can be given you) : your moral and spiritual improvement will then keep pace with the culture of your intellectual powers. " And now, Madam, God bless you ! " Farewell, and believe me to be your sincere friend,
Page 304 - YOUR letter has given me great pleasure, and I should not forgive myself if I did not tell you so. You have received admonition as considerately and as kindly as it was given. Let me now request that, if you ever should come to these Lakes while I am living here, you will let me see you. You would...
Page 303 - The day dreams in which vou habitually indulge are likely to induce a distempered state of mind ; and in proportion as all the ordinary uses of the world seem to you flat and unprofitable, you will be unfitted for them without becoming fitted for anything else.
Page 120 - Nor is it worth while to examine how far such an institution might be perverted. Abuses there would be, as in the disposal of all preferments, civil, military, or ecclesiastical ; but there would be a more obvious check upon them ; and where they occurred they would be less injurious in their consequences than they are in the State, the army, and navy, or the Church. With regard to prizes, methinks they are better left to schools and colleges.
Page 232 - No communications have ever surprised me so much as those which I have this day the honour of receiving from you. I may truly say, also, that none have ever gratified me more, though they make me feel how difficult it is to serve any one who is out of the way of fortune. An unreserved statement of my condition will be the fittest and most respectful reply. " I have a pension of 200/. conferred upon me through the good offices of my old friend and benefactor, Charles W. Wynn, when Lord Grenville went...
Page 285 - This was a pleasant visit,' writes Mr. Cuthbert Southey, ' and my father's enjoyment was greatly enhanced by ' the company of Mr. Savage Landor, who was then residing at ' Clifton, and in whose society we spent several delightful days. ' He was one of the few men with whom my father used to ' enter freely into conversation, and on such occasions it was no ' mean privilege to be a listener.
Page 302 - It is not my advice that you have asked as to the direction of your talents, but my opinion of them, and yet the opinion may be worth little, and the advice much. You evidently possess, and in no inconsiderable degree, what Wordsworth calls the...
Page 118 - I am afraid they have a better hold on the soldier than upon the penman, because the former has, in the spirit of his profession and in the sense of military honor, something which not unfrequently supplies the want of any higher principle, and I know not that any substitute is to be found among the gentlemen of the press. "But neediness, my lord, makes men dangerous members of society, quite as often as affluence makes them worthless ones. I am of opinion that many persons who become bad subjects...
Page 260 - Feb. 1836. MY DEAR SIR, I have been too closely engaged in clearing off the second volume of Cowper to reply to your, inquiries concerning poor Lamb sooner. His acquaintance with Coleridge began at Christ's Hospital ; Lamb was some two years, I think, his junior. Whether he was ever one of the Grecians there, might be ascertained, I suppose, by inquiring. My own impression is, that he was not. Coleridge introduced me to him in the winter of 1794-5, and to George Dyer also, from whom, if his memory...
Page 303 - But do not suppose that I disparage the gift which you possess ; nor that I would discourage you from exercising it. I only exhort you so to think of it, and so to use it, as to render it conducive to your own permanent good. Write poetry for its own sake; not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity : the less you aim at that, the more likely you will be to deserve, and finally to obtain it.