Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... human destinies , -what a fall was there to those astound- ing words- " Describe the Borough ! " It was a shock to every thing of the ideal great and poet- ical in the young and sensitive mind , attuned to the harmo- nies of a thousand ...
... human destinies , -what a fall was there to those astound- ing words- " Describe the Borough ! " It was a shock to every thing of the ideal great and poet- ical in the young and sensitive mind , attuned to the harmo- nies of a thousand ...
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... human life , the sound sense , the quiet satire , there was no overlooking from the first ; and soon the warm sympathy with poverty and suffering , the boldness to display them as they existed , and to suffer no longer poetry to wrap ...
... human life , the sound sense , the quiet satire , there was no overlooking from the first ; and soon the warm sympathy with poverty and suffering , the boldness to display them as they existed , and to suffer no longer poetry to wrap ...
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... human life . How novel at that time , and yet how thrilling , was the in- cident of the sea - side visitors surprised out on the sands by the rise of the tide . Here was real sublimity of distress , real display of human passion . The ...
... human life . How novel at that time , and yet how thrilling , was the in- cident of the sea - side visitors surprised out on the sands by the rise of the tide . Here was real sublimity of distress , real display of human passion . The ...
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... human life lie like waste land , as worthless of notice , while our poets and romancers " In trim gardens took their pleasure . " He saw the vice , the ignorance , the misery , and he lifted the veil and cried , — “ Behold your fellow ...
... human life lie like waste land , as worthless of notice , while our poets and romancers " In trim gardens took their pleasure . " He saw the vice , the ignorance , the misery , and he lifted the veil and cried , — “ Behold your fellow ...
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... human heart , to fathom the recesses and the springs of the mind , and to display all their movements under the ... humanity , and prove to us that still it was humanity . At every step he revealed scenes of the truest pathos , of the ...
... human heart , to fathom the recesses and the springs of the mind , and to display all their movements under the ... humanity , and prove to us that still it was humanity . At every step he revealed scenes of the truest pathos , of the ...
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Página 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Página 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Página 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Página 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Página 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Página 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...