Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... fancy ought But a white celestiall thought . " The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence . Words- worth has taken the exquisite idea and imagery there ESSAYS . TENNYSON ...
... fancy ought But a white celestiall thought . " The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence . Words- worth has taken the exquisite idea and imagery there ESSAYS . TENNYSON ...
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... fancy ought But a white celestiall thought . " The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence . Words- worth has taken the exquisite idea and imagery there suggested , and , while ...
... fancy ought But a white celestiall thought . " The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence . Words- worth has taken the exquisite idea and imagery there suggested , and , while ...
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... fancy the less overwhelming experiences of grief , that we think the popularity of the " In Memoriam " is mainly to be attributed . It is not easy to believe that the more recondite poems which it contains - at once profounder , nobler ...
... fancy the less overwhelming experiences of grief , that we think the popularity of the " In Memoriam " is mainly to be attributed . It is not easy to believe that the more recondite poems which it contains - at once profounder , nobler ...
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... fancy that has scarcely a parallel in luxuriance . It was a daring flight to describe the Palace which a soul worshipping Beauty alone , should build up for her own enjoyment , and no poet since Shakspere could have filled it with so ...
... fancy that has scarcely a parallel in luxuriance . It was a daring flight to describe the Palace which a soul worshipping Beauty alone , should build up for her own enjoyment , and no poet since Shakspere could have filled it with so ...
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... fancy Tennyson's powers remain little impaired . What more are we to look for from Mr. Tennyson ? “ Maud ” itself does not seem to indicate that his com- mand over language and fancy is in the least contracted ; it has no trace of the ...
... fancy Tennyson's powers remain little impaired . What more are we to look for from Mr. Tennyson ? “ Maud ” itself does not seem to indicate that his com- mand over language and fancy is in the least contracted ; it has no trace of the ...
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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