The North British Review, Volumen41W. P. Kennedy, 1864 |
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... seem to be now the more room , because his popularity , which during his lifetime underwent so remarkable vicissitudes , has during the fourteen years since his death receded , and seems now to be at the ebb . It would form a strange ...
... seem to be now the more room , because his popularity , which during his lifetime underwent so remarkable vicissitudes , has during the fourteen years since his death receded , and seems now to be at the ebb . It would form a strange ...
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... seem to have receded somewhat in the world's estimate . But his influence is , in its nature , too durable to be really affected by these fashions of the hour . It is raised high above the shifting damps and fogs of this lower ...
... seem to have receded somewhat in the world's estimate . But his influence is , in its nature , too durable to be really affected by these fashions of the hour . It is raised high above the shifting damps and fogs of this lower ...
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... seems afterwards to have retained was that resoluteness of char- acter , which stood him in good stead when he became a man . Of his mother , who died when he was eight years old , the poet retained a faint but tender recollection . At ...
... seems afterwards to have retained was that resoluteness of char- acter , which stood him in good stead when he became a man . Of his mother , who died when he was eight years old , the poet retained a faint but tender recollection . At ...
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... seem the most opposed to it , wonderful keenness and faithfulness of eye for the external facts of nature . Seldom in his library , much in the open air , at all hours , in all seasons , from childhood to old age , his watch- ful ...
... seem the most opposed to it , wonderful keenness and faithfulness of eye for the external facts of nature . Seldom in his library , much in the open air , at all hours , in all seasons , from childhood to old age , his watch- ful ...
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... seem to contain either a paradox or a truism . Into this subject we cannot now enter . This only may be said on the Wordsworthian side , as against these critics , that while the language of prose receives new life and strength by ...
... seem to contain either a paradox or a truism . Into this subject we cannot now enter . This only may be said on the Wordsworthian side , as against these critics , that while the language of prose receives new life and strength by ...
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Página 27 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Página 37 - 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 192 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere.
Página 234 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That...
Página 239 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Página 32 - I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings (and among them these little poems) will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier.
Página 55 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, .and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Página 85 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Página 17 - Sorrow, that is not sorrow, but delight ; And miserable love, that is not pain To hear of, for the glory that redounds Therefrom to human kind, and what we are.
Página 23 - Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies ; oh ! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion...