Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... Lady Clare , " & c .; and of many others it is impossible to say whether they are thus based or not , only they do not , like the " Excursion , " carry with them their own evidence of springing from the very germ , out of the poet's own ...
... Lady Clare , " & c .; and of many others it is impossible to say whether they are thus based or not , only they do not , like the " Excursion , " carry with them their own evidence of springing from the very germ , out of the poet's own ...
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... Lady Clare . " Tennyson's verse , throughout , is not unfrequently spoiled by affectation and mannerism : that of " Maud ' is often a mere butcher's - pony pace . There is a harmony of sound in verse distinguishable from harmony of ...
... Lady Clare . " Tennyson's verse , throughout , is not unfrequently spoiled by affectation and mannerism : that of " Maud ' is often a mere butcher's - pony pace . There is a harmony of sound in verse distinguishable from harmony of ...
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... lady ( the best in the poem ) , and may spend the night in her garden conversing with the flowers , while she is dancing at a ball inside ; till , in one of the poet's happy imitative couplets , " Low on the sand , and loud on the stone ...
... lady ( the best in the poem ) , and may spend the night in her garden conversing with the flowers , while she is dancing at a ball inside ; till , in one of the poet's happy imitative couplets , " Low on the sand , and loud on the stone ...
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... lady on hearing a certain sonnet of Wordsworth's read aloud ; " he'd rather be a pagan And so Mr. Arnold ( or his Muse , for it is with the poet , not the man , we deal ) prefers to be a pagan . In art the Greek is his model ; and ...
... lady on hearing a certain sonnet of Wordsworth's read aloud ; " he'd rather be a pagan And so Mr. Arnold ( or his Muse , for it is with the poet , not the man , we deal ) prefers to be a pagan . In art the Greek is his model ; and ...
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... lady tearing a letter ; of the extravagance of which the author herself seems to be sensible , and which she half apologises for , and half justifies . But though a letter might possibly be torn under circumstances of weight and passion ...
... lady tearing a letter ; of the extravagance of which the author herself seems to be sensible , and which she half apologises for , and half justifies . But though a letter might possibly be torn under circumstances of weight and passion ...
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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