Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyScott, Webster & Geary, 1842 - 490 páginas |
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... Spirit ........ 402 WOLFE , CHARLES ( born 1791 , died Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre .... The Hebrew Mother 404 405 1823 ) 348 The Graves of a Household 407 .......... Song ib . The Treasures of the Deep 408 The Burial of Sir John ...
... Spirit ........ 402 WOLFE , CHARLES ( born 1791 , died Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre .... The Hebrew Mother 404 405 1823 ) 348 The Graves of a Household 407 .......... Song ib . The Treasures of the Deep 408 The Burial of Sir John ...
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... spirit of English poetry , with a few bright exceptions , presents a singularly faded and exhausted appearance during the greater part of the eighteenth century . Poetry , indeed , had almost dwindled into a mere mechanical process of ...
... spirit of English poetry , with a few bright exceptions , presents a singularly faded and exhausted appearance during the greater part of the eighteenth century . Poetry , indeed , had almost dwindled into a mere mechanical process of ...
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... spirit of the classical poetry was fated to expire . And first of these , we may mention the popular feeling which , after having been lulled so long by those monotonous narcotic strains , began to arouse itself , and crave for ...
... spirit of the classical poetry was fated to expire . And first of these , we may mention the popular feeling which , after having been lulled so long by those monotonous narcotic strains , began to arouse itself , and crave for ...
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... spirit , but even the dialect , of Burns was endeavoured to be imitated . Still , however , the influence of such minds as Cowper and Burns would have been insufficient to produce a general change , had it not been for that great ...
... spirit , but even the dialect , of Burns was endeavoured to be imitated . Still , however , the influence of such minds as Cowper and Burns would have been insufficient to produce a general change , had it not been for that great ...
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... spirit of her people was aroused to thought and inquiry , she advanced in consequence , with all the freshness and buoyancy of a first existence , to the creation of a national poetry ; and instead of taking their models from the ...
... spirit of her people was aroused to thought and inquiry , she advanced in consequence , with all the freshness and buoyancy of a first existence , to the creation of a national poetry ; and instead of taking their models from the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 111 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Página 417 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue...
Página 109 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea 30 Give themselves up to jollity...
Página 106 - My brother John and I. And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side.' ' How many are you, then,' said I, * If they two are in heaven ?' Quick was the little Maid's reply,
Página 413 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 112 - 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...
Página 380 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Página 414 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Página 167 - That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright, And that he knew it was a fiend...
Página 108 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose, The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.