Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... mountains , to the sound of ethereal music , now warlike and tempestuous - now , as " from flutes and soft recorders , " accompanying , not pæans of victory , but hymns of peace . That life , too , seems , now that it is gone , to have ...
... mountains , to the sound of ethereal music , now warlike and tempestuous - now , as " from flutes and soft recorders , " accompanying , not pæans of victory , but hymns of peace . That life , too , seems , now that it is gone , to have ...
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... mountains during a great storm ? Why do some glare and threaten - why others fade away with a melancholy smile - why that one - look ! look ! a figure all in white , and with white roses in its hair , comes forward through the haze ...
... mountains during a great storm ? Why do some glare and threaten - why others fade away with a melancholy smile - why that one - look ! look ! a figure all in white , and with white roses in its hair , comes forward through the haze ...
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... mountain , and the small green- robed people of peace at once cease their pastime and evanish . For she - the silver tongued - is about to sing an old ballad , words and air both hundreds of years old , -and sing she doth , while tears ...
... mountain , and the small green- robed people of peace at once cease their pastime and evanish . For she - the silver tongued - is about to sing an old ballad , words and air both hundreds of years old , -and sing she doth , while tears ...
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... mountains of soft crimson snow ! The sun hath set , and even more beautiful are the bright - starred nights of winter , than sum- mer in all its glories beneath the broad moons of June ! Through the woods of Windermere , from cottage to ...
... mountains of soft crimson snow ! The sun hath set , and even more beautiful are the bright - starred nights of winter , than sum- mer in all its glories beneath the broad moons of June ! Through the woods of Windermere , from cottage to ...
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... mountains at the head of Windermere - behind whose peaked summits the sun sets - and Elleray - but why that haze within those eyes ? " A few natural tears thou sheddest , but wipest them soon❞ — at the sudden sound of that spell - like ...
... mountains at the head of Windermere - behind whose peaked summits the sun sets - and Elleray - but why that haze within those eyes ? " A few natural tears thou sheddest , but wipest them soon❞ — at the sudden sound of that spell - like ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.