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Robert Southey est un écrivain romantique anglais, auteur d'une œuvre abondante et variée. Poète lauréat, il est avant tout célèbre pour sa poésie, mais il a également écrit de nombreuses biographies, dont celle de William Cowper, une histoire du Brésil et divers récits tels que Boucle d'Or. Il a traduit des ouvrages de l'espagnol et du portugais.

C'est lui qui, après qu'elle lui a adressé certains de ses écrits, a recommandé à Charlotte Brontë d'abandonner la littérature qui, selon son opinion, s'oppose de nature aux talents et aux devoirs d'une femme . Wikipedia  

✵ 12. août 1774 – 21. mars 1843
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Robert Southey: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Robert Southey livre Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

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“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

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“"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."”

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St. 33.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“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.”

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St. 4.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

“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.”

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St. 8.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

“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.”

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St. 1.
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

“"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."”

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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?”

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Madoc in Wales, Part II, 2 (1805).

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

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Ode written during the War with America (1814).

“And last of all an Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name,—
A name which you all know by sight very well,
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.”

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March to Moscow, St. 8 (1814).

“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.”

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St. 2.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

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

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

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

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

“Wild dreams! but such
As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal
Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile
From man with-held, even to the latter days
When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.”

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For the apartment in Chepstow Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years.

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

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

“Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,
“Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!””

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Robert Southey The Inchcape Rock

The Inchcape Rock, st. 15.

“How does the water
Come down at Lodore?”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

“How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,
Breaks the serene of heaven:
In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine
Rolls through the dark blue depths;
Beneath her steady ray
The desert circle spreads
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night!”

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Thalaba the Destroyer http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/thalaba_frag.html, Bk. I, st. 1 (1800).

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

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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."”

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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).

“Oh, when a mother meets on high
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fears,
The day of woe, the watchful night,
For all her sorrow, all her tears,
An over-payment of delight?”

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Canto X, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)

“Write poetry for its own sake — not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity; the less you aim at that the more likely you will be to deserve and finally to obtain it.”

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Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837; Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 140.

“Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.”

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Canto XV, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)

“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.”

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St. 2.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

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