Literary and General Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1880 - 420 páginas |
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... England . Nevertheless , when we see poetry dying down among us year by year , although the age is becoming year by year more marvellous and inspiring , we have a right to look for some false principle in a school which has had so ...
... England . Nevertheless , when we see poetry dying down among us year by year , although the age is becoming year by year more marvellous and inspiring , we have a right to look for some false principle in a school which has had so ...
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... England ? " Perhaps not . At least the omission of Shelley's name is note- worthy . But still more noteworthy are these words of his to Mr. Murray , dated January 23 , 1819 : • " Read Pope - most of you don't - but do and the inevitable ...
... England ? " Perhaps not . At least the omission of Shelley's name is note- worthy . But still more noteworthy are these words of his to Mr. Murray , dated January 23 , 1819 : • " Read Pope - most of you don't - but do and the inevitable ...
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... England , and a timid public , after approaching in fear and trembling the fountain which was understood to be poisoned , has begun first to sip , and then , finding the magic water at all events sweet enough , to quench its thirst with ...
... England , and a timid public , after approaching in fear and trembling the fountain which was understood to be poisoned , has begun first to sip , and then , finding the magic water at all events sweet enough , to quench its thirst with ...
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... England at least , the great hierophants ; namely , the right of " genius " to be " eccentric . " Doubt- less there are excuses for such a notion ; but it is one against which every wise man must set his face like a flint ; and at the ...
... England at least , the great hierophants ; namely , the right of " genius " to be " eccentric . " Doubt- less there are excuses for such a notion ; but it is one against which every wise man must set his face like a flint ; and at the ...
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... England ; while in America the case is not much better . What more enormous scope for new poetic thought than that which the New World gives ? Yet the American poets , even the best of them , look lingeringly and longingly back to ...
... England ; while in America the case is not much better . What more enormous scope for new poetic thought than that which the New World gives ? Yet the American poets , even the best of them , look lingeringly and longingly back to ...
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æsthetic Alcibiades Alexander Pope angels artistic Athens beauty become believe boughs Burns Burns's Byron CALIFORNIA LIBRARY century CHARLES KINGSLEY Christian Church common confess creed Crown 8vo divine doubt earnest earth England English eternal evil expression eyes facts faculty faith fancy feel Fraser's Magazine FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE genius Gothic Gothic architecture grace Greek heart heaven human laws least legends less living look Manichean means melody merely mind moral mystic nation nature never noble passion perfect perhaps Phaethon poems poet poetasters poetic poetry prose Protagoras Protestantism reverence Robert Nicoll Roman seems sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's Socrates song Sophocles sorrow soul speak spirit of truth style surely talk taste teaching tell Templeton things thou thought trees true UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA utter utterly Vaughan verse whatsoever whole woman words worship write young Zeus
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Página 150 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love ; And sae did I o
Página 49 - 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 114 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
Página 252 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised...
Página 27 - When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Página 48 - 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 120 - Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Página 112 - Camelot ; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Página 129 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Página 313 - Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.