Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon TalfourdCarey and Hart, 1846 - 172 страници |
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... poetry " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought . " The genius of our country was thus in danger of being perverted from its purest uses to become the minister of vain philosophy , and the anatomist of polluted natures . keep men ...
... poetry " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought . " The genius of our country was thus in danger of being perverted from its purest uses to become the minister of vain philosophy , and the anatomist of polluted natures . keep men ...
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... poetry the hills and streams appear , not as they are seen by vulgar eyes , but as the poet himself , in the holiness of his imagination , has arrayed them . They are peopled not with the shapes of old superstition , but with the ...
... poetry the hills and streams appear , not as they are seen by vulgar eyes , but as the poet himself , in the holiness of his imagination , has arrayed them . They are peopled not with the shapes of old superstition , but with the ...
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... poetry of this author is , for band of zealots , who regard him as given by God into their hands as a victim - where he is placed before the clock to gaze on the advances of the hand to the hour when he is to be slain , B amidst the ...
... poetry of this author is , for band of zealots , who regard him as given by God into their hands as a victim - where he is placed before the clock to gaze on the advances of the hand to the hour when he is to be slain , B amidst the ...
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... poetic dignity from that power of ima- gination which renders for a time the rules of law sublime as well as fearful ... poet's brain . Even the ghost in Hamlet does not appal us half so fearfully as many a homely tale which has nothing ...
... poetic dignity from that power of ima- gination which renders for a time the rules of law sublime as well as fearful ... poet's brain . Even the ghost in Hamlet does not appal us half so fearfully as many a homely tale which has nothing ...
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... poet receives no long life of agony and crime , that his fame inconsiderable part of its force from its rebound may be preserved spotless , is affecting almost from the dark rocks and giant barriers which without example . There is a ...
... poet receives no long life of agony and crime , that his fame inconsiderable part of its force from its rebound may be preserved spotless , is affecting almost from the dark rocks and giant barriers which without example . There is a ...
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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.