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Robert Southey angol költő és történetíró.

✵ 12. augusztus 1774 – 21. március 1843
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“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

St. 8. Compare: &quot;And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility&quot;, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil&#x27;s Thoughts. <br class="br"> The Devil&#x27;s Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“The laws are with us, and God on our side.”

Robert Southey

On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection, Essay viii, Vol. ii (1817).

“Somebody has been sitting in my chair!”

Robert Southey könyv Goldilocks and the Three Bears

"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor (1837).

“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.”

Robert Southey

St. 31. <br class="br"> The Devil&#x27;s Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory.”

Robert Southey

St. 3. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

“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

“But what they fought each other for
I could not well make out.”

Robert Southey

St. 6. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

“From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little, snug farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.”

Robert Southey

St. 1. <br class="br"> The Devil&#x27;s Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.”

Robert Southey

St. 1. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

“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

St. 3. <br class="br"> The Devil&#x27;s Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“Every body is a critic.”

Robert Southey

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=LUFjAAAAcAAJ&amp;q=%22every+body+is+a+critic%22&amp;pg=PA277#v=onepage to Robert Rickman (30 May 1804)

“Agreed to differ.”

Robert Southey

Life of Wesley (1820).

“The Satanic school.”

Robert Southey

Vision of Judgment, original preface (1821).

“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.

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