The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essaysPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 452 страници |
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Страница 294 - It might almost seem as if Shakespeare had typified all this in Miranda, when she cries out at first sight of the king and his courtiers, "O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world That hath such people in
Страница 370 - if the artless poignancy of their phrase be gone beyond recall. We feel this lack in Wordsworth all the more keenly if we compare such verses as " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill," with Goethe's exquisite Ueber alien Gipfeln ist
Страница 260 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars." (Coleridge, Dejection, an Ode.) See also the comparison of the dimness of the faces seen around him in Paradise to " a pearl on a white forehead.
Страница 290 - When Spenser had once got safely back to the secure retreat and serene companionship of his great poem, with what profound and pathetic exultation must he have recalled the verses of Dante! " Chi dietro a jura, e chi ad aforismi Sen giva, e chi seguendo sacerdozio, E chi regnar per
Страница 332 - high On top of green Selinus all alone With blossoms brave bedecked daintily, Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath that under heaven is blown." And this is the way he reproduces five pregnant verses of Dante: — " Seggendo in piuma In fama non si vien, ne sotto coltre, Senza la qual chi sua vita
Страница 289 - to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. Whoever leaves sweet home, where mean estate In safe assurance, without strife or hate, 1 Compare Shakespeare's LXVI. Sonnet. Finds all things needful for contentment meek, And will to court for shadows
Страница 38 - and the pride of kings ; Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look ahout us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze, — but not without a plan
Страница 96 - with conscious terrors vex me round That rest or intermission none I find. Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son." And if Milton disliked the ch sound, he gave his ears unnecessary pain by verses such as these, — '' Straight coucAes close ; then, rising, cAanges oft His
Страница 37 - the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, or catch the driving gale.
Страница 331 - firm is fixt and sendeth light from far To all that in the wide deep wandering are " ; or this ? " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fair, And Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom to his mate, Came dancing forth, shaking his dewy hair And