“Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".” IfsWorldGivingMy OwnFlowerGive MeDressesIdlenessDineAlone In Love Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!” ThinkingWorldBookPhilosophyFeelingsPleasurePracticeLonelinessTaughtReturnDemandLonelySimplicityWorthyPoetry IsSentimentsSpunWordsworthShunning Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.” WorldMayAgePraiseAncientKneesGentlemanShallowGlancesAdmiringToo DeepDupesBucklesPigtails Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard