Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... a time when the invisible world occupied the thoughts and mingled itself with the daily interests of so large a mass of men as now . When another world was , to living and . dead alike , a future world , was relegated TENNYSON . 9.
... a time when the invisible world occupied the thoughts and mingled itself with the daily interests of so large a mass of men as now . When another world was , to living and . dead alike , a future world , was relegated TENNYSON . 9.
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... interests as our own , and separated from us by a veil at once thin and impe- netrable . And with the growing sense of its closeness and its importance have grown the eagerness of our ques- tionings , the impatience of our uncertainties ...
... interests as our own , and separated from us by a veil at once thin and impe- netrable . And with the growing sense of its closeness and its importance have grown the eagerness of our ques- tionings , the impatience of our uncertainties ...
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... interests itself little in right deeds . How rarely he deals with action at all ! States of feeling , existing moods , quiescence ; this is his natural ground . His is not the vis tragica . He has pathos , he has feeling ; but his is ...
... interests itself little in right deeds . How rarely he deals with action at all ! States of feeling , existing moods , quiescence ; this is his natural ground . His is not the vis tragica . He has pathos , he has feeling ; but his is ...
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... interest in , and exaggerate the importance of , particular aspects of things which are such as lie apart from our wholesome , every - day life , the natural bent of our feelings , and the just and regular subjects of our atten- tion ...
... interest in , and exaggerate the importance of , particular aspects of things which are such as lie apart from our wholesome , every - day life , the natural bent of our feelings , and the just and regular subjects of our atten- tion ...
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... interest the petty isola- tions of commercial life . A great poet might glance at these things ; but to look so ... interests , for the mere dread of the sufferings it brings , and from a cowardly and interested regard for peace ...
... interest the petty isola- tions of commercial life . A great poet might glance at these things ; but to look so ... interests , for the mere dread of the sufferings it brings , and from a cowardly and interested regard for peace ...
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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