Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... least dramatic of poets ; the near- est to Shakspere , and the farthest from him . He has in the very highest degree the fundamental poetic impulse . He fuses all things , and golden shapes spring from his mould , with only the material ...
... least dramatic of poets ; the near- est to Shakspere , and the farthest from him . He has in the very highest degree the fundamental poetic impulse . He fuses all things , and golden shapes spring from his mould , with only the material ...
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... least , would be the only man to attempt it ; but we can all feel the result . We have more words for the opposite thing ; we say it is dry , it is bald , it is prosaic . Tennyson has both these powers in the highest degree . In fact ...
... least , would be the only man to attempt it ; but we can all feel the result . We have more words for the opposite thing ; we say it is dry , it is bald , it is prosaic . Tennyson has both these powers in the highest degree . In fact ...
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... least taste for reproducing character as such ; he subordinates it to the presentment of an incident , a train of thought , a sentiment , or a picture . If he has occasion to use the dramatic form of self - expression , the absence of ...
... least taste for reproducing character as such ; he subordinates it to the presentment of an incident , a train of thought , a sentiment , or a picture . If he has occasion to use the dramatic form of self - expression , the absence of ...
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... least contracted ; it has no trace of the relaxed nerves of age , not even of that diminished boldness of imagination and vividness of fancy , which in general detract from the advantages of matured judgment and taste in a poet . Its ...
... least contracted ; it has no trace of the relaxed nerves of age , not even of that diminished boldness of imagination and vividness of fancy , which in general detract from the advantages of matured judgment and taste in a poet . Its ...
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... least was too anxiously pursued , until it even took a taint of egot- ism , and wanted a perpetual discrimination , which should not have left the tares to ripen with the wheat , to the un- bounded annoyance of the purchaser of six ...
... least was too anxiously pursued , until it even took a taint of egot- ism , and wanted a perpetual discrimination , which should not have left the tares to ripen with the wheat , to the un- bounded annoyance of the purchaser of six ...
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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