Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... passion of grief finds no such utterance, we know. No man can both feel and speak it, for it is its very essence to be speechless. Servants of the dead may mourn, the children cannot. " The lesser griefs that may be said, That breathe a ...
... passion of grief finds no such utterance, we know. No man can both feel and speak it, for it is its very essence to be speechless. Servants of the dead may mourn, the children cannot. " The lesser griefs that may be said, That breathe a ...
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... passion of grief finds no such utterance , we know . No man can both feel and speak it , for it is its very essence to be speechless . Servants of the dead may mourn , the children cannot . 66 The lesser griefs that may be said , That ...
... passion of grief finds no such utterance , we know . No man can both feel and speak it , for it is its very essence to be speechless . Servants of the dead may mourn , the children cannot . 66 The lesser griefs that may be said , That ...
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... passion to reproduce in con- crete wholes , constitutes , indeed , that fundamental poetic impulse which we have ascribed to him . He may be di- dactic , philosophical , oratorical , sentimental ; but all these things he encloses in a ...
... passion to reproduce in con- crete wholes , constitutes , indeed , that fundamental poetic impulse which we have ascribed to him . He may be di- dactic , philosophical , oratorical , sentimental ; but all these things he encloses in a ...
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... insight which , by their aid , the poet contrives to give us into some human heart . Types of passion and sentiment suf- fice for the Greek , he clothes abstractions in broad 50 THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF ENGLISH POETRY .
... insight which , by their aid , the poet contrives to give us into some human heart . Types of passion and sentiment suf- fice for the Greek , he clothes abstractions in broad 50 THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF ENGLISH POETRY .
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... passions and sentiments assume in given individual men . There is no doubt that the easiest and most effective mode by which the poetic art can interest men , is through the sympathy of the passions , and that these can only be ...
... passions and sentiments assume in given individual men . There is no doubt that the easiest and most effective mode by which the poetic art can interest men , is through the sympathy of the passions , and that these can only be ...
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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