Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... reality to the experience of every heart . The publication at all of such a work must suggest many trains of thought which it scarcely comes within the scope of public criticism to pursue ; that hesitation and difficulty which all ...
... reality to the experience of every heart . The publication at all of such a work must suggest many trains of thought which it scarcely comes within the scope of public criticism to pursue ; that hesitation and difficulty which all ...
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... reality , than in tragedy ; and this is perhaps one of the main grounds of the superiority of the latter . Both are legitimate expres- sions of art , but tragedy the higher . Perhaps the reverse is the case in the novel . The passions ...
... reality , than in tragedy ; and this is perhaps one of the main grounds of the superiority of the latter . Both are legitimate expres- sions of art , but tragedy the higher . Perhaps the reverse is the case in the novel . The passions ...
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... reality is not that which consists in grovelling in the fens below , but in false steps and shortcomings in climbing the heights . As you read , you see ( though this applies more to her early poems ) that her mind has been nurtured on ...
... reality is not that which consists in grovelling in the fens below , but in false steps and shortcomings in climbing the heights . As you read , you see ( though this applies more to her early poems ) that her mind has been nurtured on ...
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... reality , he deems it incumbent on him to put them in a certain poetical frame : we must get at something like what Pope , or Boileau , or Horace , have written . And first , a serious poetical epistle must necessarily come from the ...
... reality , he deems it incumbent on him to put them in a certain poetical frame : we must get at something like what Pope , or Boileau , or Horace , have written . And first , a serious poetical epistle must necessarily come from the ...
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... reality thrown more upon his imagination than we are apt to suppose . If he did not use it to create , he necessarily fell back upon it to piece out true conceptions from the hints which fell in his way . Like Professor Owen ...
... reality thrown more upon his imagination than we are apt to suppose . If he did not use it to create , he necessarily fell back upon it to piece out true conceptions from the hints which fell in his way . Like Professor Owen ...
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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