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... never are those figures re- peated precisely . Blank verse follows a com- mon type in Wordsworth and Browning , but the product is as different as the two men . Counting the fingers will never show how a fine poem is built . Beauty is ...
... never are those figures re- peated precisely . Blank verse follows a com- mon type in Wordsworth and Browning , but the product is as different as the two men . Counting the fingers will never show how a fine poem is built . Beauty is ...
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... never were ours and so to live many lives in- stead of our little one . When I travel , I do not seek the places that are like my home . I go abroad for broadening , and consequently turn to scenes with a character of their own , scenes ...
... never were ours and so to live many lives in- stead of our little one . When I travel , I do not seek the places that are like my home . I go abroad for broadening , and consequently turn to scenes with a character of their own , scenes ...
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... never inquired into the fact . It does not affect the poetry . But when in the next stanza it is narrated how in the maiden's undressing " Of all her wreathed pearls her hair she frees , Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one , Loosens ...
... never inquired into the fact . It does not affect the poetry . But when in the next stanza it is narrated how in the maiden's undressing " Of all her wreathed pearls her hair she frees , Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one , Loosens ...
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... never grows used to any- thing . He starts with an individual thrilling experience and restores for his readers the fresh- ness of their early days . Childhood's wonder- ment returns , and over the marvels all around us 28 FORMATIVE ...
... never grows used to any- thing . He starts with an individual thrilling experience and restores for his readers the fresh- ness of their early days . Childhood's wonder- ment returns , and over the marvels all around us 28 FORMATIVE ...
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... never had heard his name , should we not see at once the quality of the writing and know that its author must have had a prodigious influence over his contemporaries and successors ? It is this æsthetic interest in Chaucer- an interest ...
... never had heard his name , should we not see at once the quality of the writing and know that its author must have had a prodigious influence over his contemporaries and successors ? It is this æsthetic interest in Chaucer- an interest ...
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Page 153 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 177 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 210 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 180 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 248 - Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing...
Page 236 - was written soon after Arthur Hallam's death, and gave my feeling about the need of going forward, and braving the struggle of life perhaps more simply than anything in
Page 253 - The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Page 179 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 266 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Page 178 - Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...