Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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William Caldwell Roscoe Richard Holt Hutton. suggested , and , while improving its beauty a thousand- fold , he has transformed the original thought , and chosen to represent the child , not as allied in its unstained white- ness to the ...
William Caldwell Roscoe Richard Holt Hutton. suggested , and , while improving its beauty a thousand- fold , he has transformed the original thought , and chosen to represent the child , not as allied in its unstained white- ness to the ...
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... beauty . They are obscure enough to de- mand our attentive perusal , but rich enough to repay it . They are brief , inconsequent , disconnected . Their author has called them " wild and wandering cries , " not entirely without justice ...
... beauty . They are obscure enough to de- mand our attentive perusal , but rich enough to repay it . They are brief , inconsequent , disconnected . Their author has called them " wild and wandering cries , " not entirely without justice ...
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... Beauty , even in its purest and most glorious aspects , the Beauty of Knowledge and the Beauty of Good , is for it to be false to something higher in its destination - that " Not for this Was common clay ta'en from the common earth ...
... Beauty , even in its purest and most glorious aspects , the Beauty of Knowledge and the Beauty of Good , is for it to be false to something higher in its destination - that " Not for this Was common clay ta'en from the common earth ...
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... beauty , his power of felicitous narration , his command over varied sentiment and feel- ing ( he has not attempted the delineation of violent pas- sion ) , open a field to him where he might occupy not only a high place , but one ...
... beauty , his power of felicitous narration , his command over varied sentiment and feel- ing ( he has not attempted the delineation of violent pas- sion ) , open a field to him where he might occupy not only a high place , but one ...
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... beauty that lies in form ; and that what our modern literature most wants is a sense of the value of completeness and finish in this respect . An English masterwork which should fully develop the lofty grace and profound beauty that ...
... beauty that lies in form ; and that what our modern literature most wants is a sense of the value of completeness and finish in this respect . An English masterwork which should fully develop the lofty grace and profound beauty that ...
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Page 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Page 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro