"Clough" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brought Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, And William of Cloudeslea, To shoot with this forester for forty marks, And the ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... (1830-1867) was a poet and essayist of some distinction; though A. H. Clough also criticises his exclusive devotion to the "writers of his own immediate time"; and calls him "the latest disciple of the school of Keats." The volume of essays entitled Dreamthorp "entitles him to a place among the ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... Gatacre Park Longford, Newport Madeley Court Madeley, Upper House Oswestry, Park Hall Plowden Hall Somersetshire:— Chard, "Clough Inn" Chelvey Court Chew Magna Manor House Dunster Castle Ilminster, The Chantry Trent House West Coker Manor House Staffordshire:— Broughton Hall Moseley Hall West Bromwich, Dunkirk Hall Suffolk:— ...
— Secret Chambers and Hiding Places • Allan Fea
... Latin Sapphic, but a metre of a different kind, founded on a mistake in the manner of reading the Latin, into which Englishmen naturally fall, and in which, for convenience' sake, they as naturally persist. The late Mr. Clough, whose efforts in literature were essentially tentative, in form as well as in spirit, and whose loss for that very reason is perhaps of more serious import to English poetry than if, with equal genius, he had possessed a more conservative habit of mind, ...
— Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace
... its brilliant achievement in scientific discovery and increase of production, was spiritually a failure. The sadness of that spiritual failure crushed the heart of Clough, turned Carlyle from a thinker into a scold, and Matthew Arnold from a poet ...
— Cambridge Essays on Education • Various
... opinion of you; but some dissatisfaction—just a little—I may have. Only let us love perfection, you and I, with all our souls, and I think our love for each other may safely be allowed to take care of itself. Remember the two ships in Clough's poem, which parted, but sailed by the compass, and reached the ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... Sings (I think) Clough. Well, I had money, and more of it than I felt any desire to spend; which is as much as any reasonable man can want. My age was five-and-twenty, my health good, my conscience moderately clean, and my appetite excellent: I had fame in some degree, and a fair prospect ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
