Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon TalfourdCarey and Hart, 1846 - 172 страници |
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... light of common day , " which mere vulgar experience in the course of the world diffuses . But , in truth , that radiance is not merely of the fancy , nor are its influences lost when it ceases immediately to shine on our path . It is ...
... light of common day , " which mere vulgar experience in the course of the world diffuses . But , in truth , that radiance is not merely of the fancy , nor are its influences lost when it ceases immediately to shine on our path . It is ...
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... light on earth ; so sub - encompassed by vice and infamy . Never can lime that they expand our imaginations beyond their former compass , yet so human that they make our hearts gush with delight ; he disco- vers feelings in his own ...
... light on earth ; so sub - encompassed by vice and infamy . Never can lime that they expand our imaginations beyond their former compass , yet so human that they make our hearts gush with delight ; he disco- vers feelings in his own ...
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... light of our inward eye more truly shows to us the secrets of the heart than the most elaborate process of reason . Riches , honours , power , are transitory - the things which appear , pass away - the shadows of life alone are stable ...
... light of our inward eye more truly shows to us the secrets of the heart than the most elaborate process of reason . Riches , honours , power , are transitory - the things which appear , pass away - the shadows of life alone are stable ...
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... light on all - illuminating the vast hills of purple heath , the calm breast of the quiet water , and the rich masses of the grove - nów gleaming with a sacred light on the distant towers of some old monastery , now softening the green ...
... light on all - illuminating the vast hills of purple heath , the calm breast of the quiet water , and the rich masses of the grove - nów gleaming with a sacred light on the distant towers of some old monastery , now softening the green ...
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... light of common day . " In his 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 ...
... light of common day . " In his 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 ...
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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.