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... eyes rested on those heights . He has represented the mountain , not precisely as it is in any chang- ing aspect , more or less imperfect , more or less majestic , or as it may ever be for any one person at any one time , but as it ...
... eyes rested on those heights . He has represented the mountain , not precisely as it is in any chang- ing aspect , more or less imperfect , more or less majestic , or as it may ever be for any one person at any one time , but as it ...
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... eye as follows : : - " ' Thus Saltan ― talking to | his nearest mate | , With head uplift | above | the wave , and eyes | That sparkling blazed | , his other parts | besides Prone on the flood | , extended long | and large , Lay ...
... eye as follows : : - " ' Thus Saltan ― talking to | his nearest mate | , With head uplift | above | the wave , and eyes | That sparkling blazed | , his other parts | besides Prone on the flood | , extended long | and large , Lay ...
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... above In solemn troops and sweet societies , That sing , and singing in their glory move , And wipe the tears forever from his eyes . " Still it must be granted that the English language suffers lxxii THE PRINCIPLES OF POETRY.
... above In solemn troops and sweet societies , That sing , and singing in their glory move , And wipe the tears forever from his eyes . " Still it must be granted that the English language suffers lxxii THE PRINCIPLES OF POETRY.
Page xc
... eyes were blind , We sought and knew not what we sought . We marvel , now we look behind : Life's more amusing than we thought ! Oh , foolish youth , untimely wise ! Oh , phantoms of the sickly mind ! What ? not content with seas and ...
... eyes were blind , We sought and knew not what we sought . We marvel , now we look behind : Life's more amusing than we thought ! Oh , foolish youth , untimely wise ! Oh , phantoms of the sickly mind ! What ? not content with seas and ...
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... eyes Were with his heart , and that was far away , " " Butchered to make a Roman holiday , " . - such lines express the significant thought in its aspects most opposed and yet most vital , and in the one emotive , imaginative , balanced ...
... eyes Were with his heart , and that was far away , " " Butchered to make a Roman holiday , " . - such lines express the significant thought in its aspects most opposed and yet most vital , and in the one emotive , imaginative , balanced ...
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Page 243 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 174 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 242 - 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...
Page 133 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 245 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth...
Page 437 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 249 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 129 - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 165 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her: 'tis her privilege, 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...
Page 128 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...