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... poet chose to " embower the spirit of a fiend , in mortal paradise of such sweet " song . We do not , however despair even yet of the regeneration of our author's taste . There has always been something of humanity to redeem those works ...
... poet chose to " embower the spirit of a fiend , in mortal paradise of such sweet " song . We do not , however despair even yet of the regeneration of our author's taste . There has always been something of humanity to redeem those works ...
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... poet , in sober sadness , purely for being a fool . No pagan poet but would have found some machine for her deliverance . Pegasus would have strained hard to have brought old Perseus on his back , time enough to rescue this Andromeda ...
... poet , in sober sadness , purely for being a fool . No pagan poet but would have found some machine for her deliverance . Pegasus would have strained hard to have brought old Perseus on his back , time enough to rescue this Andromeda ...
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... poet ( he con- tinues ) have provided such a husband for an only daughter of any peer in England , the Blackamoor must have changed his skin to look our House of Lords in the face . " scenes as this have made all the world run after ...
... poet ( he con- tinues ) have provided such a husband for an only daughter of any peer in England , the Blackamoor must have changed his skin to look our House of Lords in the face . " scenes as this have made all the world run after ...
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... poet treats the noblest Romans . But there is no other cloth in his wardrobe . Every one must wear a fool's coat that comes to be dressed by him ; nor is he more civil to the ladies — Portia , in good manners , might have challenged ...
... poet treats the noblest Romans . But there is no other cloth in his wardrobe . Every one must wear a fool's coat that comes to be dressed by him ; nor is he more civil to the ladies — Portia , in good manners , might have challenged ...
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... poet than any other writer , for he seems to regard him as an arbiter of life and death - responsible only to the critic for the administration of his powers . Mr. Rymer has his own stately notions of what is proper for tragedy . He is ...
... poet than any other writer , for he seems to regard him as an arbiter of life and death - responsible only to the critic for the administration of his powers . Mr. Rymer has his own stately notions of what is proper for tragedy . He is ...
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Page 56 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Page 56 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 155 - 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 That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 12 - 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, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 56 - She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn, Or up the mountain springs; And her's shall be the breathing balm, And her's the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things. "The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 56 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 55 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 55 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions, not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 156 - But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.
Page 50 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere ; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — • And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And sunbeams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier binds it fast.