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... character , in prose and verse . It was proposed , in the critical pieces , to retain the extracts with which they were originally adorned , as this would give them far more harmony and interest for the general reader . The translation ...
... character , in prose and verse . It was proposed , in the critical pieces , to retain the extracts with which they were originally adorned , as this would give them far more harmony and interest for the general reader . The translation ...
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... character enough to exhibit in their persons not only the stock from which they sprang , but what was special in themselves harmonized with it . There were ten years betwixt them , but the younger verged on middle age ; and permanent ...
... character enough to exhibit in their persons not only the stock from which they sprang , but what was special in themselves harmonized with it . There were ten years betwixt them , but the younger verged on middle age ; and permanent ...
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... character on that of the child ; and all who have made even a few observations of this sort , must feel that , here as else- where , planting and watering had best be done for duty or love's sake , without any sanguine hopes as to the ...
... character on that of the child ; and all who have made even a few observations of this sort , must feel that , here as else- where , planting and watering had best be done for duty or love's sake , without any sanguine hopes as to the ...
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... character of her husband , to have stated faults , which she was sure would not have been dust in the balance , placed in the scale opposite to his merits . " Indeed , the defect here was not to be hidden , since it sapped the noblest ...
... character of her husband , to have stated faults , which she was sure would not have been dust in the balance , placed in the scale opposite to his merits . " Indeed , the defect here was not to be hidden , since it sapped the noblest ...
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... character , Sir James went to lead a life of great animal and mental excitement in Edinburgh . Here he first tourneyed with the world , and came off from the lists , not inglorious if not altogether victorious . Al- ready he had loved ...
... character , Sir James went to lead a life of great animal and mental excitement in Edinburgh . Here he first tourneyed with the world , and came off from the lists , not inglorious if not altogether victorious . Al- ready he had loved ...
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actor admirable amid ANACREON Artevelde ascer asso Athelwold beauty beneath breast breath bright brother calm character clouds Coleridge Crabbe critic Dædalus deep divine drama earth ELENA essay ESSAY ON CRITICS expression faith fancy father feel felt flowers genius George give grace Hamlet happy hear heart heaven hope hour human ideal immortal intellect interest justice king LADY CARLISLE less light live look Lord Herbert Mackintosh Madame de Staël melody Metamora Milton mind misanthropy Muse nature never noble o'er passion perfect Philip Van Artevelde play poems poet poetic poetry prose pure refinement rience Roman Actor scene seems Shakspeare Shelley Sir James Sir James Mackintosh sonnets soul Southey speak spirit stars Strafford sweet thee thine things thou thought tone touch true truth verse voice whole words Wordsworth write youth
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Página 71 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee '! From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from, thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Página 35 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 37 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 70 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Página 73 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form. A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell...
Página 87 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Página 74 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.
Página 74 - A love in desolation masked— a Power Girt round with weakness — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour ; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break.
Página 88 - To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Página 75 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.