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Robert Southey

Geburtstag: 12. August 1774
Todesdatum: 21. März 1843

Robert Southey war ein englischer Dichter, Geschichtsschreiber und Kritiker. Er gehört zur „Seeschule“ um William Wordsworth und Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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„Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.“

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— Robert Southey

„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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— Robert Southey

„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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— Robert Southey

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

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

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— Robert Southey
The Inchcape Rock http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6688&poem=28859, st. 4 (1802).

„Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.“

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— Robert Southey
Motto.

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

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— Robert Southey
Canto XV, st. 11.

„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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— Robert Southey
St. 2.

„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.“

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— Robert Southey
St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts.