Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... spirit with which many of his literary friends are imbued , reminding one of these lines of Wordsworth- The device To each and all might well belong ; It is the spirit of Paradise That prompts such works CHRISTMAS PRESENTS . 33.
... spirit with which many of his literary friends are imbued , reminding one of these lines of Wordsworth- The device To each and all might well belong ; It is the spirit of Paradise That prompts such works CHRISTMAS PRESENTS . 33.
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... line that long gallery in the Castle , surpasses in art or nature the works of our own Lawrence , pride of his nation and of his age ? The gayest heart , my Caroline , when its gaiety is that of innocence , is likewise often , when need ...
... line that long gallery in the Castle , surpasses in art or nature the works of our own Lawrence , pride of his nation and of his age ? The gayest heart , my Caroline , when its gaiety is that of innocence , is likewise often , when need ...
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... line is of hair twisted - platted by his own soon - instructed little fingers . By heavens , he is fishing with the fly ! and the Fates , who , grim and grisly as they are painted to be by full - grown , ungrateful , lying poets , smile ...
... line is of hair twisted - platted by his own soon - instructed little fingers . By heavens , he is fishing with the fly ! and the Fates , who , grim and grisly as they are painted to be by full - grown , ungrateful , lying poets , smile ...
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... line itself , and lithe to its topmost tenuity as the elephant's proboscis - the hiccory and the horn without twist , knot , or flaw , from butt to fly , a faultless taper , " fine by degrees and beautifully less , " the beau ideal of a ...
... line itself , and lithe to its topmost tenuity as the elephant's proboscis - the hiccory and the horn without twist , knot , or flaw , from butt to fly , a faultless taper , " fine by degrees and beautifully less , " the beau ideal of a ...
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... line goes , steady , boys , steady - stiff and steady as a Tory in the roar of Opposi- tion . There is yet an hour's play in her dorsal fin -- dan- ger in the flap of her tail - and yet may her silver shoulder shatter the gut against a ...
... line goes , steady , boys , steady - stiff and steady as a Tory in the roar of Opposi- tion . There is yet an hour's play in her dorsal fin -- dan- ger in the flap of her tail - and yet may her silver shoulder shatter the gut against a ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration ballads beautiful behold beneath Betty Foy birds Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine breath bright Caroline Caroline Bowles cheerful child child is father Christopher North clouds cottage cottage ornée creature dark dead dear delight divine dream earth eyes face fear feeling flowers genius gentle glory hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hour human imagination immortal language light living look Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads magnetic wonders Milton mind morning mountains nature never night o'er once passion perhaps Peter Bell pleasant pleasure poem poet poet's poetic diction poetry prose reader round Scotland seems shadows Shakspeare sight silent sing sleep smile song sonnet soul sound speak spirit stars sunshine sweet taste tears thee thing thou thought tion touch trees true truth verse voice walk whole words Wordsworth Wordsworthian writings young
Pasajes populares
Página 271 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Página 270 - 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 243 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Página 205 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Página 297 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 264 - The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse...
Página 298 - 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 209 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Página 207 - The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Página 297 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.