Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... story , but it is because they are admirably described . There is nothing dramatic in it : Mr. Tennyson is betrayed to every observer pulling the wires , and scarcely taking the trouble to alter his voice for the separate characters ...
... story , but it is because they are admirably described . There is nothing dramatic in it : Mr. Tennyson is betrayed to every observer pulling the wires , and scarcely taking the trouble to alter his voice for the separate characters ...
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... her brother , who may strike our morbid young friend , who may make a hole in his side in a duel , whether with fatal consequences we can't say . Maud may disappear 1 from the story , except in an apparitional form 32 TENNYSON .
... her brother , who may strike our morbid young friend , who may make a hole in his side in a duel , whether with fatal consequences we can't say . Maud may disappear 1 from the story , except in an apparitional form 32 TENNYSON .
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... story , full of brief snatches of wonderful beauty , which the poet has clumsily made the vehicle of some of his own views on the ques- tion of peace and war . Apart from the artistic demerits of the poem , we could have wished that ...
... story , full of brief snatches of wonderful beauty , which the poet has clumsily made the vehicle of some of his own views on the ques- tion of peace and war . Apart from the artistic demerits of the poem , we could have wished that ...
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... story lying at a tangent to the circle of his original one . Hazlitt , speaking of painting , says that the " English school is distinguished by what are called ébauches , rude , violent attempts at effect , and a total inattention to ...
... story lying at a tangent to the circle of his original one . Hazlitt , speaking of painting , says that the " English school is distinguished by what are called ébauches , rude , violent attempts at effect , and a total inattention to ...
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... story of which it is a part to have a commencement , and a sufficient resting - place at which to stop . There is none of that final silence and rest which falls over the conclusion of an English tragedy , and leaves the spectator in ...
... story of which it is a part to have a commencement , and a sufficient resting - place at which to stop . There is none of that final silence and rest which falls over the conclusion of an English tragedy , and leaves the spectator in ...
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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