Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... higher in its destination - that " Not for this Was common clay ta'en from the common earth , Moulded by God , and temper'd with the tears Of angels to the perfect shape of man . " The " Two Voices " is simply , in its essence , an argu ...
... higher in its destination - that " Not for this Was common clay ta'en from the common earth , Moulded by God , and temper'd with the tears Of angels to the perfect shape of man . " The " Two Voices " is simply , in its essence , an argu ...
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... foreground black with stones and slags , Beyond , a line of heights , and higher All barr'd with long white cloud the scornful crags , And highest , snow and fire . And one , an English home - gray twilight pour'd 26 TENNYSON .
... foreground black with stones and slags , Beyond , a line of heights , and higher All barr'd with long white cloud the scornful crags , And highest , snow and fire . And one , an English home - gray twilight pour'd 26 TENNYSON .
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... higher aims of a land that has lost for a little her lust of gold . " All this may be done , and leave us little the wiser . It may be an alle- gory - which is the severest construction that can be put upon it or it may be an ill - told ...
... higher aims of a land that has lost for a little her lust of gold . " All this may be done , and leave us little the wiser . It may be an alle- gory - which is the severest construction that can be put upon it or it may be an ill - told ...
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... higher , that it is not easy to estimate what real hold the Oxford sublimate of Goethe has upon his mind . Like others of his school , weary of the inter- necine war of self , his troubled eyes turn to Nature , and he sees in the calm ...
... higher , that it is not easy to estimate what real hold the Oxford sublimate of Goethe has upon his mind . Like others of his school , weary of the inter- necine war of self , his troubled eyes turn to Nature , and he sees in the calm ...
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... higher refinement of Wordsworth . They are like Greek wine mingled with water for a draught . In saying this , we might convey a false impression , if we did not add that Mr. Arnold is no mere compound ; every thing he writes is ...
... higher refinement of Wordsworth . They are like Greek wine mingled with water for a draught . In saying this , we might convey a false impression , if we did not add that Mr. Arnold is no mere compound ; every thing he writes is ...
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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