Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... highest towers of the imagination , and stretch their vain and weeping hands into the void - when the very absolute necessity we feel for the things of faith seems to make us doubtful , and " Like Paul with beasts , we fight with death ...
... highest towers of the imagination , and stretch their vain and weeping hands into the void - when the very absolute necessity we feel for the things of faith seems to make us doubtful , and " Like Paul with beasts , we fight with death ...
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... highest prerogatives of genius . No man enjoys it in greater fullness than Tennyson , and he should not lightly sacrifice it to the temptations of indolence and affectation . It is the later poems which are at once the most thoughtful ...
... highest prerogatives of genius . No man enjoys it in greater fullness than Tennyson , and he should not lightly sacrifice it to the temptations of indolence and affectation . It is the later poems which are at once the most thoughtful ...
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... highest degree the fundamental poetic impulse . He fuses all things , and golden shapes spring from his mould , with only the material in common with his ore ; rather , ideas are sown in his brain , and spring up in con- crete organic ...
... highest degree the fundamental poetic impulse . He fuses all things , and golden shapes spring from his mould , with only the material in common with his ore ; rather , ideas are sown in his brain , and spring up in con- crete organic ...
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... highest degree . In fact , he never writes mere verse , and is never prosaic . Whether it be thought or feeling he is expressing , he gives it a poetic body , and transfigures it in the light of a glowing imagination . The " Palace of ...
... highest degree . In fact , he never writes mere verse , and is never prosaic . Whether it be thought or feeling he is expressing , he gives it a poetic body , and transfigures it in the light of a glowing imagination . The " Palace of ...
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... highest creative impulse , with a tendency to assume , at second- hand , the nucleus of their creative effort . They love to give a new body to an old thought ; they develop a sug- gestion ; they find old nuts , and grow trees from them ...
... highest creative impulse , with a tendency to assume , at second- hand , the nucleus of their creative effort . They love to give a new body to an old thought ; they develop a sug- gestion ; they find old nuts , and grow trees from them ...
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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