Colloquies, desultory and diverse, but chiefly upon poetry and poets. [by C.L. Lordan]. |
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... thought I , I apply myself to this " sage and serious doctrine , " it must be at the sacrifice of pursuits infinitely more pleasurable , though certainly less profitable , if estimated by the Hudibrastic standard- " What is the worth of ...
... thought I , I apply myself to this " sage and serious doctrine , " it must be at the sacrifice of pursuits infinitely more pleasurable , though certainly less profitable , if estimated by the Hudibrastic standard- " What is the worth of ...
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... thought , the rapture within me found utterance in words of song : " O LIFE ! how pleasant in thy morning , Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning ! Cold - pausing Caution's lessons scorning , We frisk away , Like schoolboys at th ...
... thought , the rapture within me found utterance in words of song : " O LIFE ! how pleasant in thy morning , Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning ! Cold - pausing Caution's lessons scorning , We frisk away , Like schoolboys at th ...
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... thoughts and expressions of Wordsworth , and avowed himself also in the foremost rank of the poet's admirers . He ex- pressed the sadness , not unpleasing , with which the contemplation of the departing sun had filled him- a state of ...
... thoughts and expressions of Wordsworth , and avowed himself also in the foremost rank of the poet's admirers . He ex- pressed the sadness , not unpleasing , with which the contemplation of the departing sun had filled him- a state of ...
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... thought , that by his hands Spain may be overpowered , and he possess , For his delight , a solemn wilderness Where all the Brave iie dead . But when of bands Which he will break for us - he dares to speak , Of benefits , and of a ...
... thought , that by his hands Spain may be overpowered , and he possess , For his delight , a solemn wilderness Where all the Brave iie dead . But when of bands Which he will break for us - he dares to speak , Of benefits , and of a ...
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... thought - its progress stayed for a moment at unfre- quent intervals , and again calmly resuming its on- ward course , as a stream , which petty obstacles at times impede , is soon impelled by accumulating waters rearward . As soon as E ...
... thought - its progress stayed for a moment at unfre- quent intervals , and again calmly resuming its on- ward course , as a stream , which petty obstacles at times impede , is soon impelled by accumulating waters rearward . As soon as E ...
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Page 151 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 149 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 151 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 168 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 91 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.
Page 160 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part deform'd With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers.
Page 155 - Why should we thus, with an untoward mind, And in the weakness of humanity, From natural wisdom turn our hearts away ; To natural comfort shut our eyes and ears ; And, feeding on disquiet, thus disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts...
Page 91 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 127 - We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away : It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Page 92 - And surely never did there live on earth A man of kindlier nature. The rough sports And teasing ways of children vexed not him ; Indulgent listener was he to the tongue Of garrulous age ; nor did the sick man's tale, To his fraternal sympathy addressed, Obtain reluctant hearing.