Letters and Social AimsHoughton, Mifflin, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... equal parts in a colonnade , in a row of windows , or in wings ; gardens , by the sym- metric contrasts of the beds and walks . In society , you have this figure in a bridal company , where a choir of white - robed maidens give the ...
... equal parts in a colonnade , in a row of windows , or in wings ; gardens , by the sym- metric contrasts of the beds and walks . In society , you have this figure in a bridal company , where a choir of white - robed maidens give the ...
Página 44
... equal expansion in his metres . There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety , as every artist knows . A right ode ( however nearly it may adopt conventional metre , as the Spenserian , or the heroic blank - verse ...
... equal expansion in his metres . There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety , as every artist knows . A right ode ( however nearly it may adopt conventional metre , as the Spenserian , or the heroic blank - verse ...
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... equal . Try this strain of Beaumont and Fletcher : " 6 Hence , all ye vain delights , As short as are the nights In which you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet , If men were wise to see ' t , But only melancholy . Oh ...
... equal . Try this strain of Beaumont and Fletcher : " 6 Hence , all ye vain delights , As short as are the nights In which you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet , If men were wise to see ' t , But only melancholy . Oh ...
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... equal breadth with the surface of the earth . It was not born , it sees not , And is not seen ; it does not come when desired ; It has no form , it bears no burden , For it is void of sin . It makes no perturbation in the place where ...
... equal breadth with the surface of the earth . It was not born , it sees not , And is not seen ; it does not come when desired ; It has no form , it bears no burden , For it is void of sin . It makes no perturbation in the place where ...
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... equal hero . The egotism , the wit , is calculated . The book is unde- niably written by a master , and stands unhappily related to the whole modern world ; but it is a very disagreeable chapter of literature , and accuses the author as ...
... equal hero . The egotism , the wit , is calculated . The book is unde- niably written by a master , and stands unhappily related to the whole modern world ; but it is a very disagreeable chapter of literature , and accuses the author as ...
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Página 229 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Página 42 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 74 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Página 80 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 43 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove...
Página 233 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Página 258 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 27 - A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 154 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.