The Works of Walter Savage Landor, Volume 2E. Moxon, 1846 - 675 pages |
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... poet in the hours of his idleness may indulge in allegory : but the highest poetical character will never rest on so unsubstantial a foundation . The poet must take man from God's hands , must look into every fibre of his heart and ...
... poet in the hours of his idleness may indulge in allegory : but the highest poetical character will never rest on so unsubstantial a foundation . The poet must take man from God's hands , must look into every fibre of his heart and ...
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... poet Ovidius Naso , have related the trans- formations of sundry men , women , and gods . Timotheus . Idleness ! Idleness ! I never read such lying authors . Lucian . I myself have seen enough to incline me toward a belief in them ...
... poet Ovidius Naso , have related the trans- formations of sundry men , women , and gods . Timotheus . Idleness ! Idleness ! I never read such lying authors . Lucian . I myself have seen enough to incline me toward a belief in them ...
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... poet , and would have been a greater , had he been more con- tented with the external and ordinary appearances of things . Instead of which , he looked at a part of his pictures through a prism , and at another part through a camera ...
... poet , and would have been a greater , had he been more con- tented with the external and ordinary appearances of things . Instead of which , he looked at a part of his pictures through a prism , and at another part through a camera ...
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... poet in his youth sate looking at the Sabrina he was soon to celebrate . There is pleasure in the sight of a glebe ... poets and philosophers and philanthropists , the orna- ments of society , the charmers of solitude , the warders of ...
... poet in his youth sate looking at the Sabrina he was soon to celebrate . There is pleasure in the sight of a glebe ... poets and philosophers and philanthropists , the orna- ments of society , the charmers of solitude , the warders of ...
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... poet , or the Muse for him , is about to sing the anger of Achilles , with the dis- asters it brought down on the Greeks . But these disasters are of brief continuance , and this anger terminates most prosperously ? Another fit of anger ...
... poet , or the Muse for him , is about to sing the anger of Achilles , with the dis- asters it brought down on the Greeks . But these disasters are of brief continuance , and this anger terminates most prosperously ? Another fit of anger ...
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Page 65 - To adore the Conqueror? who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood With scattered arms and ensigns, till anon His swift pursuers from heaven-gates discern The advantage, and descending, tread us down Thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf? Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n...
Page 489 - But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Page 63 - Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit...
Page 68 - My drowsed sense, untroubled, though I thought I then was passing to my former state Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve...
Page 136 - For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 68 - Of happiness, or not? who am alone From all eternity, for none I know Second to me, or like, equal much less. How have I, then, with whom to hold converse Save with the creatures which I made, and those To me inferior, infinite descents Beneath what other creatures are to thee?
Page 270 - I waste for him my breath Who wasted his for me : but mine returns, And this lorn bosom burns With stifling heat, heaving it up in sleep, And waking me to weep Tears that had melted his soft heart : for years Wept he as bitter tears. Merciful God! such was his latest prayer, These may she never share...
Page 63 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace...
Page 64 - All things to man's delightful use ; the roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower. Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine...
Page 62 - A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...