Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... matters . His air is modern . He dispenses with the old formali- ties thought necessary to poetry . He has cast the ancient costume . His dress is to the old forms what a wide- awake and easy morning coat is to a wig and claret vel- vet ...
... matters . His air is modern . He dispenses with the old formali- ties thought necessary to poetry . He has cast the ancient costume . His dress is to the old forms what a wide- awake and easy morning coat is to a wig and claret vel- vet ...
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... matter less impregnated with the dominant feelings of his time . He sympathises with the modern bent of thought . He is touched with the triumphant , somewhat boastful temper of an age of physical discovery . He exults in endless ...
... matter less impregnated with the dominant feelings of his time . He sympathises with the modern bent of thought . He is touched with the triumphant , somewhat boastful temper of an age of physical discovery . He exults in endless ...
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... matter less impregnated with the dominant feelings of his time . He sympathises with the modern bent of thought . He is touched with the triumphant , somewhat boastful temper of an age of physical discovery . He exults in endless ...
... matter less impregnated with the dominant feelings of his time . He sympathises with the modern bent of thought . He is touched with the triumphant , somewhat boastful temper of an age of physical discovery . He exults in endless ...
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... matter of the poems of which it consists . They por- tray , as all the world knows , the feelings excited by the loss of the author's most intimate and endeared friend , the remarkable and highly - gifted Arthur Hallam , a man who died ...
... matter of the poems of which it consists . They por- tray , as all the world knows , the feelings excited by the loss of the author's most intimate and endeared friend , the remarkable and highly - gifted Arthur Hallam , a man who died ...
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... matter of it must be transmuted by the imagina- tion . What this process is , it is not perhaps possible to describe ; Coleridge , at least , would be the only man to attempt it ; but we can all feel the result . We have more words for ...
... matter of it must be transmuted by the imagina- tion . What this process is , it is not perhaps possible to describe ; Coleridge , at least , would be the only man to attempt it ; but we can all feel the result . We have more words for ...
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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