Lectures on the British Poets, Band 1J.F. Shaw, 1857 - 408 Seiten |
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... living heart . It would not be inappropriate for me here to examine what is the union of qualifications essential to the character of an enlightened critic of poetry . There is needed a mind at once poetical and philosophical , with ...
... living heart . It would not be inappropriate for me here to examine what is the union of qualifications essential to the character of an enlightened critic of poetry . There is needed a mind at once poetical and philosophical , with ...
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... living amid a succession of nine - days ' wonders . To regard this state of things with regret or complaint would obviously be in a high degree irrational as well as unmanly . On the contrary , the prodigious progress of physical ...
... living amid a succession of nine - days ' wonders . To regard this state of things with regret or complaint would obviously be in a high degree irrational as well as unmanly . On the contrary , the prodigious progress of physical ...
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... living representation of the goddess of Reason , which the philosophers bade the people worship ; and what the idol was I dare not venture even to name to you . But , bringing these general observations to bear upon our subject , - when ...
... living representation of the goddess of Reason , which the philosophers bade the people worship ; and what the idol was I dare not venture even to name to you . But , bringing these general observations to bear upon our subject , - when ...
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... living poet , little known , — " Far from all measured space , yet clear and plain As sun at noon , 6 a mighty orb of song ' Illumes extremest heaven . Beyond the throng Of lesser stars , that rise , and wax , and wane , - The transient ...
... living poet , little known , — " Far from all measured space , yet clear and plain As sun at noon , 6 a mighty orb of song ' Illumes extremest heaven . Beyond the throng Of lesser stars , that rise , and wax , and wane , - The transient ...
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... living writer , eminent in another department of letters , whose life , devoted to laborious research , has produced three great his- torical works , each sufficient to give him fame . It is in the latest of these that Mr. Hallam ...
... living writer , eminent in another department of letters , whose life , devoted to laborious research , has produced three great his- torical works , each sufficient to give him fame . It is in the latest of these that Mr. Hallam ...
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Seite 373 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Seite 163 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Seite 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 108 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Seite 368 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Seite 332 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 25 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Seite 406 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Seite 288 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Seite 276 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.