Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... hand . Still the want of clearness of expression and of completeness in form are prominent and much to be regretted . To make great thoughts familiar is one of the highest prerogatives of genius . No man enjoys it in greater fullness ...
... hand . Still the want of clearness of expression and of completeness in form are prominent and much to be regretted . To make great thoughts familiar is one of the highest prerogatives of genius . No man enjoys it in greater fullness ...
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... hand , but they must be those of the softer and more appeasable kind . It is in throwing a divine grace over the happier emotions , that his muse is most at home . She speaks nowhere so freely , perhaps nowhere so enchantingly , as in ...
... hand , but they must be those of the softer and more appeasable kind . It is in throwing a divine grace over the happier emotions , that his muse is most at home . She speaks nowhere so freely , perhaps nowhere so enchantingly , as in ...
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... hand , the nucleus of their creative effort . They love to give a new body to an old thought ; they develop a sug- gestion ; they find old nuts , and grow trees from them ; they do not care to lay their own eggs . It is probable that ...
... hand , the nucleus of their creative effort . They love to give a new body to an old thought ; they develop a sug- gestion ; they find old nuts , and grow trees from them ; they do not care to lay their own eggs . It is probable that ...
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... hand The lawns and meadow - ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers , and far below them roars The long brook falling through the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea . Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and ...
... hand The lawns and meadow - ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers , and far below them roars The long brook falling through the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea . Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and ...
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... hand an unfailing wardrobe of loveliest forms ; and rich vestments lie waiting by the pillow of his sleeping thoughts . When Tennyson has to describe the lotos - eaters , he does not go in quest of the most probable natural scenery , he ...
... hand an unfailing wardrobe of loveliest forms ; and rich vestments lie waiting by the pillow of his sleeping thoughts . When Tennyson has to describe the lotos - eaters , he does not go in quest of the most probable natural scenery , he ...
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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