Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon TalfourdCarey and Hart, 1846 - 172 страници |
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... influences lost when it ceases immediately to shine on our path . It is holy and prophetic . The best joys of childhood - its boundless aspirations and gorgeous dreams , are the sure indications purity of an angel . She is at the same ...
... influences lost when it ceases immediately to shine on our path . It is holy and prophetic . The best joys of childhood - its boundless aspirations and gorgeous dreams , are the sure indications purity of an angel . She is at the same ...
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... influence , to steal at night into her chamber , and when his trem- bling listener expects only a requisition for ... influences of the imagination which consecrate whatever they touch , which detect the secret analogies of beauty , and ...
... influence , to steal at night into her chamber , and when his trem- bling listener expects only a requisition for ... influences of the imagination which consecrate whatever they touch , which detect the secret analogies of beauty , and ...
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Thomas Noon Talfourd. as sacred treasures . The sorrows over which it sheds its influence are " ill - bartered for the garishness of joy ; " for they win us softly from life , and fit us to die smiling . It endures , not only while ...
Thomas Noon Talfourd. as sacred treasures . The sorrows over which it sheds its influence are " ill - bartered for the garishness of joy ; " for they win us softly from life , and fit us to die smiling . It endures , not only while ...
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... influences on the taste and feeling of the peo - Of all men who have ever written , excepting ple . These , with their fresh spirit of health , Shakspeare , he has perhaps the least of ex- have counteracted the workings of that blast ...
... influences on the taste and feeling of the peo - Of all men who have ever written , excepting ple . These , with their fresh spirit of health , Shakspeare , he has perhaps the least of ex- have counteracted the workings of that blast ...
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... influence as we do the impressions of a feverish dream . It is not thus that we receive the productions of genu- ine and holy bards - of Shakspeare , of Milton , of Spenser , or of Wordsworth - whose far- reaching imaginations come home ...
... influence as we do the impressions of a feverish dream . It is not thus that we receive the productions of genu- ine and holy bards - of Shakspeare , of Milton , of Spenser , or of Wordsworth - whose far- reaching imaginations come home ...
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Страница 155 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire - that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Страница 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.
Страница 56 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Страница 155 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Страница 78 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Страница 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.
Страница 56 - I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; 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.
Страница 55 - Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Страница 55 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: 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...
Страница 154 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.