Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... thou mayest obtain , by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind . " It suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read . Rightly , poetry is organic . We cannot know things by words and writing , but only by ...
... thou mayest obtain , by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind . " It suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read . Rightly , poetry is organic . We cannot know things by words and writing , but only by ...
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... thou shalt endure : yea , all of them shall wax old like a garment ; as a vesture shalt thou change them , and they shall be changed : but thou art the same , and thy years shall have no end . " Milton delights in these iterations ...
... thou shalt endure : yea , all of them shall wax old like a garment ; as a vesture shalt thou change them , and they shall be changed : but thou art the same , and thy years shall have no end . " Milton delights in these iterations ...
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... is Taliessin's " Invocation of the Wind " at the door of Castle Teganwy . " Discover thou what it is , - The strong creature from before the flood , Without flesh , without bone , without head , without 50 POETRY AND IMAGINATION .
... is Taliessin's " Invocation of the Wind " at the door of Castle Teganwy . " Discover thou what it is , - The strong creature from before the flood , Without flesh , without bone , without head , without 50 POETRY AND IMAGINATION .
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... Of an enemy , - -- " The caldron of the sea was bordered round by his land , but it would not boil the food of a coward . " To an exile on an island he says , " The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou BARDS AND TROUVEURS . 51.
... Of an enemy , - -- " The caldron of the sea was bordered round by his land , but it would not boil the food of a coward . " To an exile on an island he says , " The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou BARDS AND TROUVEURS . 51.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. " The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou , O just man , endure . " Another bard in like tone says , - " I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat ; one of them is called the ' Helper ' ; it will ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. " The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou , O just man , endure . " Another bard in like tone says , - " I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat ; one of them is called the ' Helper ' ; it will ...
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Página 42 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 80 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 48 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls...
Página 74 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Página 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 258 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 27 - A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 155 - Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. But the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always some steep transition, some sudden alteration of temperature, or of point of view, betrays the foreign interpolation.
Página 152 - In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, and, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
Página 134 - Into his hands, or hang, th' offender : But they maturely having weigh'd, They had no more but him o...