Papers on Literature and Art, Partes1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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... eye and as fine a sense ; but if he had as fine an organ for expression also , he would make the poem instead of judging it . He must be inspired by the phi- losopher's spirit of inquiry and need of generalization , but he must not be ...
... eye and as fine a sense ; but if he had as fine an organ for expression also , he would make the poem instead of judging it . He must be inspired by the phi- losopher's spirit of inquiry and need of generalization , but he must not be ...
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... eye and com . pressed lips . At thy coming nature shrouds herself in dull mist ; fain would she hide her sighs and ... eyes from a younger child . I know I can never be dear to her as thou art , yet I am her child , nor would the fated ...
... eye and com . pressed lips . At thy coming nature shrouds herself in dull mist ; fain would she hide her sighs and ... eyes from a younger child . I know I can never be dear to her as thou art , yet I am her child , nor would the fated ...
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... eye was bent in the direction of the town , as if upon some figure ap- proaching or receding ; but its inward turned expression showed that he was , in fact , no longer looking , but lost in thought . " Happiness ! " thus said his ...
... eye was bent in the direction of the town , as if upon some figure ap- proaching or receding ; but its inward turned expression showed that he was , in fact , no longer looking , but lost in thought . " Happiness ! " thus said his ...
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... eye , and in the brooding sense of all his countenance , was felt the life of one who , while he deemed that his present honour lay in playing well the part assigned him by destiny , never forgot that it was but a part , and fed ...
... eye , and in the brooding sense of all his countenance , was felt the life of one who , while he deemed that his present honour lay in playing well the part assigned him by destiny , never forgot that it was but a part , and fed ...
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... eye must steady itself before a spiritual light , to recognize him as a reality . Some such emotion was felt by Lord ... eyes of such a critic , " said George , as they seated themselves in the spot his brother had before chosen for the ...
... eye must steady itself before a spiritual light , to recognize him as a reality . Some such emotion was felt by Lord ... eyes of such a critic , " said George , as they seated themselves in the spot his brother had before chosen for the ...
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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. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 72 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
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 40 - In speech (which I have not) to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this "Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, "Or there exceed the mark...
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 157 - Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint old town of toil and traffic, quaint old town of art and song, Memories haunt thy pointed gables, like the rooks that round them throng: Memories of the Middle Ages, when the emperors, rough and bold, Had their dwelling in thy castle, time-defying, centuries old; And thy brave and thrifty burghers boasted, in their uncouth rhyme, That their great imperial city stretched its hand through every clime.
Página 72 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee; Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
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.