New MiscellaniesTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 375 páginas |
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... poetry , be it remembered , wants exactly that element of hardihood and manli- ness which is supposed to be the birthright of moun- taineers , ) one cannot help , as a lowlander , hoping that there is a little truth in the threnodes of ...
... poetry , be it remembered , wants exactly that element of hardihood and manli- ness which is supposed to be the birthright of moun- taineers , ) one cannot help , as a lowlander , hoping that there is a little truth in the threnodes of ...
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... poetry , belong to the lowlands . Are the English mountain- eers , pray , or the French , or the Germans ? Were the Egyptians mountaineers , or the Romans , or the а Assyrians , as soon as they became a people ? CHALK - STREAM STUDIES . 29.
... poetry , belong to the lowlands . Are the English mountain- eers , pray , or the French , or the Germans ? Were the Egyptians mountaineers , or the Romans , or the а Assyrians , as soon as they became a people ? CHALK - STREAM STUDIES . 29.
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... poetry ? You will quote the Hebrews . I answer that the life of Palestine always kept to the comparatively low lands ... poet ? As for mountain morality - look at the Swiss . If you wish to know the morals of the men , ask any English ...
... poetry ? You will quote the Hebrews . I answer that the life of Palestine always kept to the comparatively low lands ... poet ? As for mountain morality - look at the Swiss . If you wish to know the morals of the men , ask any English ...
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... poetry for the last forty years , and about its future destiny . Great poets , even true poets , are becoming more and more rare among us . There are those , even , who say that we have none ; an assertion which , as long as Mr ...
... poetry for the last forty years , and about its future destiny . Great poets , even true poets , are becoming more and more rare among us . There are those , even , who say that we have none ; an assertion which , as long as Mr ...
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... poets , let the dead bury their dead . " .... And yet , after all , man will write poetry , in spite of Mr. Carlyle ; nay , beings who are not men , but mere forked rad- ishes , will write it . Man is a poetry - writing animal . Perhaps ...
... poets , let the dead bury their dead . " .... And yet , after all , man will write poetry , in spite of Mr. Carlyle ; nay , beings who are not men , but mere forked rad- ishes , will write it . Man is a poetry - writing animal . Perhaps ...
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Página 317 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 285 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 117 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 117 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 81 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Página 81 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 316 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 114 - The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time...
Página 291 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Página 14 - And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.