Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... true characteristics in small as well as in great matters . His air is modern . He dispenses with the old formali- ties thought necessary to poetry . He has cast the ancient costume . His dress is to the old forms what a wide- awake and ...
... true characteristics in small as well as in great matters . His air is modern . He dispenses with the old formali- ties thought necessary to poetry . He has cast the ancient costume . His dress is to the old forms what a wide- awake and ...
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... true philosophy ; but it comparatively interests itself little in right deeds . How rarely he deals with action at all ! States of feeling , existing moods , quiescence ; this is his natural ground . His is not the vis tragica . He has ...
... true philosophy ; but it comparatively interests itself little in right deeds . How rarely he deals with action at all ! States of feeling , existing moods , quiescence ; this is his natural ground . His is not the vis tragica . He has ...
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... true , you cannot comply with the conditions of art , you cannot have the feelings of the artist , if you drive directly by the medium of verse at a moral result or an intellectual conclusion ; but you may have these for your ultimate ...
... true , you cannot comply with the conditions of art , you cannot have the feelings of the artist , if you drive directly by the medium of verse at a moral result or an intellectual conclusion ; but you may have these for your ultimate ...
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... true creation of his own . Shelley , on the other hand , initiated all his own poems , except the greatest of them , the Cenci . Wordsworth , where he lays hold of an incident or a scene , reproduces it just as it was ; where he creates ...
... true creation of his own . Shelley , on the other hand , initiated all his own poems , except the greatest of them , the Cenci . Wordsworth , where he lays hold of an incident or a scene , reproduces it just as it was ; where he creates ...
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... true to that character , yet Ulysses we know would never have said that and in that way . It is what he would have said , if , retaining his antique simplicity , he had become modernised , and at the same time seen himself as Tennyson ...
... true to that character , yet Ulysses we know would never have said that and in that way . It is what he would have said , if , retaining his antique simplicity , he had become modernised , and at the same time seen himself as Tennyson ...
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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