Estimations in Criticism, Volumen1A. Melrose, 1908 |
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... leaves , from those of her carnivorous mother that catches mice and is sedulous in her domestic duties . But generally about this interior existence children are dumb . You have warlike ideas , but you cannot say to a sinewy relative ...
... leaves , from those of her carnivorous mother that catches mice and is sedulous in her domestic duties . But generally about this interior existence children are dumb . You have warlike ideas , but you cannot say to a sinewy relative ...
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... leaves . ' You cannot remark this in secular life ; but you hack at the infelicitous bush till you do not altogether reject the idea that your small garden is Palestine , and yourself the most adventurous of knights . Hartley had this ...
... leaves . ' You cannot remark this in secular life ; but you hack at the infelicitous bush till you do not altogether reject the idea that your small garden is Palestine , and yourself the most adventurous of knights . Hartley had this ...
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... leaves the impress of himself , but in a more direct manner , which it will take a few words to describe . Poetry begins in Impersonality . Homer is a voice - a fine voice , a fine eye , and a brain that drew with light ; and this is ...
... leaves the impress of himself , but in a more direct manner , which it will take a few words to describe . Poetry begins in Impersonality . Homer is a voice - a fine voice , a fine eye , and a brain that drew with light ; and this is ...
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... leaves , soothe us with a sweet inland murmur . ' We have before us a vast seat of interest , and toil , and beauty , and power , and this our own . Here is our home . " The use of foreign literature is like the use of foreign travel ...
... leaves , soothe us with a sweet inland murmur . ' We have before us a vast seat of interest , and toil , and beauty , and power , and this our own . Here is our home . " The use of foreign literature is like the use of foreign travel ...
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... leaves on a nice and susceptible mind . In point of information it was strictly of a common nature . It is clear that his real knowledge was mostly confined to the poets , especially the ordinary Latin poets and Homer , and that he ...
... leaves on a nice and susceptible mind . In point of information it was strictly of a common nature . It is clear that his real knowledge was mostly confined to the poets , especially the ordinary Latin poets and Homer , and that he ...
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Página 144 - All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Página 36 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: 319 While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the...
Página 144 - Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Página 237 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
Página 271 - And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking:
Página 273 - Beside," quoth the Mayor, with a knowing wink, "Our business was done at the river's brink; We saw with our eyes the vermin sink, And what's dead can't come to life, I think. So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink From the duty of giving you something...
Página 195 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 27 - Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days...
Página 45 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Página 36 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.