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a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. Nothing happened, however, worse than morning.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
He realizes around about 1917 that the prophetic tone, the prophetic language in which he wrote the first two sections of the text were given to him by this figure of Philemon, in other words, there’s a prophetic voice in him that is not himself.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the…
poetryfoundation.orgHe misses not much. SEBASTIAN No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
William Shakespeare • The Tempest
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone
Edgar Allan Poe
I really had the feeling that I had seen the creative quality; which is supernatural.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Lord Byron (1788-1824) incarne le paradoxe du poète rebelle, du paresseux révolté, du révolutionnaire décontracté. Son premier recueil de poésie publié en 1807 lorsqu’il avait 19 ans et étudiait au Trinity College à Cambridge s’appelait Heures de paresse. C’était un aristocrate, un riche oisif. Cependant,
tom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être oisif: ... dans un monde de dingue (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
had a poor, helpless, rudimentary spleen of a conscience left, just enough to make her uncomfortable, and therefore more wicked.
George MacDonald • The Complete Fairy Tales
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject, man’s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed: