Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Tema 356,Volumen1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, By R. Taylor and Company, 1805 - 248 páginas |
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Página x
... carry along with them a purpose . If in this opi- nion I am mistaken , I can have little right to the name of a Poet . For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : but though this be X PREFACE .
... carry along with them a purpose . If in this opi- nion I am mistaken , I can have little right to the name of a Poet . For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : but though this be X PREFACE .
Página xxvii
... carried as far as they must be carried if admitted at all , our judgments concerning the works of the greatest Poets both ancient and modern will be far different from what they are at present , both when we praise , and when we censure ...
... carried as far as they must be carried if admitted at all , our judgments concerning the works of the greatest Poets both ancient and modern will be far different from what they are at present , both when we praise , and when we censure ...
Página xxxii
... carried alive into the heart by passion ; truth which is its own testi- mony , which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals , and receives them from the same tribunal . Poetry is the image of man and nature ...
... carried alive into the heart by passion ; truth which is its own testi- mony , which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals , and receives them from the same tribunal . Poetry is the image of man and nature ...
Página xxxiv
... carried on by subtle combinations with pleasure . We have no know- ledge , that is , no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts , but what has been built up by pleasure , and exists in us by pleasure alone ...
... carried on by subtle combinations with pleasure . We have no know- ledge , that is , no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts , but what has been built up by pleasure , and exists in us by pleasure alone ...
Página xxxv
... carry about with them , and to these sympathies in which without any other discipline than that of our daily life we are fitted to take delight , the Poet principally directs his attention . He considers man and nature as essentially ...
... carry about with them , and to these sympathies in which without any other discipline than that of our daily life we are fitted to take delight , the Poet principally directs his attention . He considers man and nature as essentially ...
Términos y frases comunes
Albatross Babe Beneath Betty Foy Betty's birds black lips breath breeze chatter cold composition dead dear endeavoured excitement fair fear feelings Friend Goody Blake green happy Harry Gill hath head hear heard heart high crag Hill of moss hope Idiot Boy idle Johnny Johnny's Kilve land of mist language limbs Liswyn farm live look Martha Ray metre metrical mind mist moon moonlight mountain nature never night numbers o'er objects oh misery old Susan Gale Owlets pain passion pleasure Poems Poet Poet's poetic diction Poetry Pond Pony poor old poor Susan porringer pray produced prose Quoth Reader round sails senses fail Ship silent Simon Lee song soul spirit Stephen Hill stood sweet tale tears tell thee There's things Thorn thou thought tion truth Twas verse voice wedding-guest wherefore wild wind wood words Young Harry
Pasajes populares
Página 147 - The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon -' The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Página 154 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea! About, about, in reel and rout, The death-fires danced at night: The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
Página 198 - Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Página 171 - Under the keel nine fathom deep, From the land of mist and snow, The spirit slid ; a'nd it was he That made the ship to go.
Página 168 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
Página 179 - Christ! what saw I there! Each corse lay flat, lifeless, and flat, And, by the holy rood! A man all light, a seraph-man, On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart — No voice; but oh!
Página 170 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 171 - gan stir, With a short uneasy motion Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then, like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound: It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
Página xv - For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Página 54 - 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.