Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... taste for reproducing character as such ; he subordinates it to the presentment of an incident , a train of thought , a sentiment , or a picture . If he has occasion to use the dramatic form of self - expression , the absence of any ...
... taste for reproducing character as such ; he subordinates it to the presentment of an incident , a train of thought , a sentiment , or a picture . If he has occasion to use the dramatic form of self - expression , the absence of any ...
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... taste in a poet . Its faults are rawness and incoherence ; it is just the poem which would have excited brilliant hopes for the poetical career of a boy of nineteen . It is the more lamentable that so great a poet should , in the ...
... taste in a poet . Its faults are rawness and incoherence ; it is just the poem which would have excited brilliant hopes for the poetical career of a boy of nineteen . It is the more lamentable that so great a poet should , in the ...
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... taste and judgment ; that it is the symptom of an acute seizure , not of a chronic failing ; and that one to whom the English language is already so deeply indebted , has still the power and the will to add some things worthy of his ...
... taste and judgment ; that it is the symptom of an acute seizure , not of a chronic failing ; and that one to whom the English language is already so deeply indebted , has still the power and the will to add some things worthy of his ...
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... taste pure by nature and yet conscientiously cultivated . Hence , instead of con- gratulating ourselves that we have read him , we find a pleasure in actually reading him , and take him up again and again with undiminished freshness and ...
... taste pure by nature and yet conscientiously cultivated . Hence , instead of con- gratulating ourselves that we have read him , we find a pleasure in actually reading him , and take him up again and again with undiminished freshness and ...
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... taste such happiness . Few have the will and fewer yet the power to sever those threads which knit them up in the common bond of humanity . Some cold tempers there are which can stand aloof and quietly survey the field of circumstance ...
... taste such happiness . Few have the will and fewer yet the power to sever those threads which knit them up in the common bond of humanity . Some cold tempers there are which can stand aloof and quietly survey the field of circumstance ...
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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