The American Whig Review, Volumen3Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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... Poets illustrating each other , ( Chas . Winterfield , ) 129 . Blanchard , Laman , 330 . Buenos Ayres and the Republic of Banda Oriental , ( Mrs. S. P. Jenkins ) , 160 ; Ro- sas ' Government ; Anarchy and Murder ; Corruption of ...
... Poets illustrating each other , ( Chas . Winterfield , ) 129 . Blanchard , Laman , 330 . Buenos Ayres and the Republic of Banda Oriental , ( Mrs. S. P. Jenkins ) , 160 ; Ro- sas ' Government ; Anarchy and Murder ; Corruption of ...
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... poets , we say of the spirit , that it is great and fair , or little and black - using such words as are applied to things visi- ble . It is easy to represent the incom- prehensible by symbols ; but to know the significance of these ...
... poets , we say of the spirit , that it is great and fair , or little and black - using such words as are applied to things visi- ble . It is easy to represent the incom- prehensible by symbols ; but to know the significance of these ...
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... poet or rhetorician ; and like theirs , to be rational , and subject to rules . The arts of speech intend always an expression of some thought , or passion ; and the same pas- sion is expressed always in the same manner . The composer ...
... poet or rhetorician ; and like theirs , to be rational , and subject to rules . The arts of speech intend always an expression of some thought , or passion ; and the same pas- sion is expressed always in the same manner . The composer ...
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... poet and the actor , through the same knowledge , are able to impersonate it in the character of a king or hero . But an actor who should imitate the gait of Peri- cles , or a poet who should repeat his say . ings , would be entitled to ...
... poet and the actor , through the same knowledge , are able to impersonate it in the character of a king or hero . But an actor who should imitate the gait of Peri- cles , or a poet who should repeat his say . ings , would be entitled to ...
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... poet or the statuary is by nature a hero or a king , he will represent kings and heroes , by their real marks ; but if he personates what is superior to himself , as a God or a divine man , he fails in the representation , and is ...
... poet or the statuary is by nature a hero or a king , he will represent kings and heroes , by their real marks ; but if he personates what is superior to himself , as a God or a divine man , he fails in the representation , and is ...
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Página 119 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Página 122 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 164 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Página 118 - Sweet, rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.
Página 124 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Página 186 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Página 398 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Página 186 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Página 82 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Página 122 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.