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... human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds ...
... human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men ; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry . Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds ...
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... human life . When Lear says , of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought him to this ; " what a bewildered amazement , what a wrench of the imagination , that cannot be brought to conceive of any other cause of ...
... human life . When Lear says , of Edgar , " Nothing but his unkind daughters could have brought him to this ; " what a bewildered amazement , what a wrench of the imagination , that cannot be brought to conceive of any other cause of ...
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... human soul : the whole of our existence , the sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that which we desire , and that which we dread , is brought before us by contrast ; the ac- tion and re - action are equal ; the keenness of ...
... human soul : the whole of our existence , the sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that which we desire , and that which we dread , is brought before us by contrast ; the ac- tion and re - action are equal ; the keenness of ...
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... humanity and a scattered polytheism , it became more profound and in- tense , as it became more universal , for the Infinite is present to everything : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to ...
... humanity and a scattered polytheism , it became more profound and in- tense , as it became more universal , for the Infinite is present to everything : " If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth , it is there also ; if we turn to ...
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... human race was involved in her breast . There are de- scriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than any thing in Homer , as that of the state of his prosperity , and of the vision that came upon ...
... human race was involved in her breast . There are de- scriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than any thing in Homer , as that of the state of his prosperity , and of the vision that came upon ...
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Page 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Page 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Page 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...