Robert Southey citáty

Robert Southey byl anglický romantický básník a literární badatel.

✵ 12. srpen 1774 – 21. březen 1843
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Robert Southey nejznámější citáty

„Ať žiješ sebedéle, prvních dvacet let je nejdelší polovina tvého života.“

Originál: (en) Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Zdroj: Southey, Robert, The Doctor & C, Longman, 1837, 329, anglicky

Robert Southey: Citáty anglicky

“And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.”

Robert Southey kniha Goldilocks and the Three Bears

"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor http://www.edsanders.com/stories/3bears/3bears.htm (1837).

“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”

Ode written during the War with America (1814).

“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.

“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”

The Soldier's Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).

“He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large, and smooth, and round.”

St. 2.
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

“How does the water
Come down at Lodore?”

St. 1.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.”

Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837, reported in Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 139, and in Mumby Letters of Literary Men, Vol. II (1906), p. 185.

“The arts babblative and scribblative.”

Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 2 (1829).

“Yet leaving here a name, I trust,
That will not perish in the dust.”

My Days Among the Dead Are Past, st. 4.

“And then they knew the perilous Rock,
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”

The Inchcape Rock http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6688&poem=28859, st. 4 (1802).

“"You are old, Father William." the young man cried,
"The few locks which are left you are grey;
You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:
Now tell me the reason, I pray."”

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Southey/the_old_man's_comforts.htm, st. 1 (1799).

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