Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... creatures happier , a thousand times happier , than all the birds in the world ! It is the Christ- mas holidays - Christmas day itself - Christmas night- and joy intensifies love in every bosom . Never before were we brothers and ...
... creatures happier , a thousand times happier , than all the birds in the world ! It is the Christ- mas holidays - Christmas day itself - Christmas night- and joy intensifies love in every bosom . Never before were we brothers and ...
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... creature that en- joyed it was felt to be the very centre , -and the very soul ! Then came a new series of Christmasses , celebrated , one year in this family , another year in that , -none present but those whom the delightful Elia ...
... creature that en- joyed it was felt to be the very centre , -and the very soul ! Then came a new series of Christmasses , celebrated , one year in this family , another year in that , -none present but those whom the delightful Elia ...
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... creatures whom she was soon about to leave ; but she sat in sunshine even within the shadow of death ; and the " voice that called her home " had so long been whispering in her ear , that its accents had become dear to her , and ...
... creatures whom she was soon about to leave ; but she sat in sunshine even within the shadow of death ; and the " voice that called her home " had so long been whispering in her ear , that its accents had become dear to her , and ...
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... creature , " Her mute companion , as it lay , In love and pity at her feet- 99 And I have seen thee shiver with delight , in the beauty of the sudden apparition , when " Came gliding in with lovely gleam , Came gliding in serene and ...
... creature , " Her mute companion , as it lay , In love and pity at her feet- 99 And I have seen thee shiver with delight , in the beauty of the sudden apparition , when " Came gliding in with lovely gleam , Came gliding in serene and ...
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... creatures as they ever to walk over our earth , could they turn away their gracious and benignant smiles from such a maiden as thou art — for thou too art without spot or blemish - nor could force nor fraud prevail against thee ; for ...
... creatures as they ever to walk over our earth , could they turn away their gracious and benignant smiles from such a maiden as thou art — for thou too art without spot or blemish - nor could force nor fraud prevail against thee ; for ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration beautiful behold beneath Betty Foy birds Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine breath bright Caroline Caroline Bowles character Charlotte Smith cheerful child child is father Christopher North clouds cottage cottage ornée creature dark dear delight diction divine dream earth Edinburgh eyes fear feeling flowers genius gentle glory Gray hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hour human imagination language light living look Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads Milton mind morning mountains nature never night o'er once passage passion perhaps Peter Bell pleasant pleasure poem poet poet's poetic diction poetical poetry prose reader round Scotland seems shadows Shakspeare sight silent sing sleep smile solemn song sonnet soul sound speak spirit stars sweet taste tears thee thing thou thought tion touch trees true verse voice whole wonder words Wordsworth Wordsworthian writings young
Pasajes populares
Página 260 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 201 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Página 308 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Página 265 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Página 168 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 206 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Página 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace: Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Página 222 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Página 246 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old.
Página 215 - ... must often, in liveliness and truth, fall short of that which is uttered by men in real life, under the actual pressure of those passions, certain shadows of which the poet thus produces, or feels to be produced, in himself.