Robert Southey citáty
Robert Southey
Datum narození: 12. srpen 1774
Datum úmrtí: 21. březen 1843
Robert Southey byl anglický romantický básník a literární badatel.
Citáty Robert Southey
„At this good news, so great
The Devil's pleasure grew,
That, with a joyful swish, he rent
The hole where his tail came through.“
St. 31.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
„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).
„He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility;
And he owned with a grin
That his favorite sin
Is pride that apes humility.“
St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
„From its fountains
In the mountains,
Its rills and its gills;
Through moss and through brake,
It runs and it creeps
For a while, till it sleeps
In its own little lake.“
St. 2.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
„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)
„It runs through the reeds,
And away it proceeds,
Through meadow and glade,
In sun and in shade,
And through the wood-shelter,
Among crags in its flurry,
Helter-skelter,
Hurry-skurry.“
St. 2.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
„Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.“
Canto XV, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
„The arts babblative and scribblative.“
Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 2 (1829).
„Somebody has been sitting in my chair!“
— Robert Southey, kniha Goldilocks and the Three Bears
"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor (1837).
„Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.“
Motto.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
„"And everybody praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win."
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
"But 'twas a famous victory."“
St. 11.
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)
„What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?“
Madoc in Wales, Part II, 2 (1805).
„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.
