Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... matter's restive lump assume Such various forms , and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom , Asserting its indisputable right To dance , would form an universe of dust ; Has matter none ? Then whence these ...
... matter's restive lump assume Such various forms , and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom , Asserting its indisputable right To dance , would form an universe of dust ; Has matter none ? Then whence these ...
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... matter , and it is the form alone which has been borrowed . No great poet has ever written another Greek epic . We shall not be con- futed by Glover's Leonidas . Every one has emptied out the old form , and filled it with his own native ...
... matter , and it is the form alone which has been borrowed . No great poet has ever written another Greek epic . We shall not be con- futed by Glover's Leonidas . Every one has emptied out the old form , and filled it with his own native ...
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... matter , expressed according to Greek ideas in Greek poetical forms , why not put it into Greek words too , and make an exact reproduction and a sealed book of it ? Is ancient subject - matter , then , ex- cluded from modern art ? No ...
... matter , expressed according to Greek ideas in Greek poetical forms , why not put it into Greek words too , and make an exact reproduction and a sealed book of it ? Is ancient subject - matter , then , ex- cluded from modern art ? No ...
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... matter of the latter . It is like the difference between drawing Retzsch's outlines and painting Titian's pictures . The modern classical school not only obtained complete mo- dels of form , but by using for the most part classical ...
... matter of the latter . It is like the difference between drawing Retzsch's outlines and painting Titian's pictures . The modern classical school not only obtained complete mo- dels of form , but by using for the most part classical ...
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... matter . It is not true of the modern classical school . A great scientific mind made some re- marks as to the conditions and laws of the nature of the drama as it existed in his day ; and these mere laws of the existing condition of an ...
... matter . It is not true of the modern classical school . A great scientific mind made some re- marks as to the conditions and laws of the nature of the drama as it existed in his day ; and these mere laws of the existing condition of an ...
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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