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
„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.“
— Robert Southey
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799), St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts.
„Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,
“Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!”“
— Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock
The Inchcape Rock, st. 15.
„And so never ending, but always descending,
Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending
All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, —
And this way the water comes down at Lodore.“
— Robert Southey
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820), St. 8.
„It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.“
— Robert Southey
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798), St. 1.
„"Great news! bloody news!" cried a newsman;
The Devil said, "Stop, let me see!"
"Great news? bloody news?" thought the Devil;
"The bloodier the better for me."“
— Robert Southey
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799), St. 33.
„Rising and leaping,
Sinking and creeping,
Swelling and sweeping,
Showering and springing,
Flying and flinging,
Writhing and ringing,
Eddying and whisking,
Spouting and frisking,
Turning and twisting,
Around and around
With endless rebound:
Smiting and fighting,
A sight to delight in;
Confounding, astounding,
Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.“
— Robert Southey
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820), St. 4.
„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.“
— Robert Southey
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820), St. 2.
„Thou hast confessions to listen,
And bells to christen,
And altars and dolls to dress;
And fools to coax,
And sinners to hoax,
And beads and bones to bless;
And great pardons to sell
For those who pay well,
And small ones for those who pay less.“
— Robert Southey
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799), St. 25.
„How, then, was the Devil dressed?
Oh! he was in his Sunday's best;
His coat was red, and his breeches were blue,
And there was a hole where his tail came through.“
— Robert Southey
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799), St. 3.
„The Satanic school.“
— Robert Southey
Vision of Judgment, original preface (1821).
„Every body is a critic.“
— Robert Southey
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=LUFjAAAAcAAJ&q=%22every+body+is+a+critic%22&pg=PA277#v=onepage to Robert Rickman (30 May 1804)
„The march of intellect.“
— Robert Southey
Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 14. Compare: "The march of the human mind is slow", Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii., p. 149.
„Will ye believe
The wonders of the ocean? how its shoals
Sprang from the wave, like flashing light;.. took wing,
And, twinkling with a silver glitterance,
Flew through the air and sunshine? yet were they
To sight less wondrous than the tribe who swam,
Following like fowlers, with uplifted eye,
Their falling quarry:.. language cannot paint
Their splendid tints! though in blue ocean seen,
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,
In all its rich variety of shades,
Suffus'd with glowing gold.“
— Robert Southey
Madoc in Wales http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1805sout.htm#pg001, Part I, Sec. V - 48 (1805). Compare: "'Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,' As some one somewhere sings about the sky", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 110.
„If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.“
— Robert Southey
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 52
