The Rural Life of England, Հատոր 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 էջ |
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William Howitt. king Laertes occupied in his farm ; and in the whole episode of Ulysses at the lodge of Eumeus , the goat- herd . But yet it is , after all , only in contemplating some scene of delicious rural beauty , something akin to ...
William Howitt. king Laertes occupied in his farm ; and in the whole episode of Ulysses at the lodge of Eumeus , the goat- herd . But yet it is , after all , only in contemplating some scene of delicious rural beauty , something akin to ...
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... whole work in which he speaks out plainly of the sublimity of external nature . " The impulse of nature inclines to ... whole rocks from their labouring abyss , and pour out whole rivers of liquid and unmingled flame . " See how Burke ...
... whole work in which he speaks out plainly of the sublimity of external nature . " The impulse of nature inclines to ... whole rocks from their labouring abyss , and pour out whole rivers of liquid and unmingled flame . " See how Burke ...
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... whole mass of modern poetry . Powerfully as the spirit of the an- cients was attracted by the sublimity of mortal pas- sion and mortal fortunes ; by the strife of families and nations , by the strife of emotions in the soul , and the ...
... whole mass of modern poetry . Powerfully as the spirit of the an- cients was attracted by the sublimity of mortal pas- sion and mortal fortunes ; by the strife of families and nations , by the strife of emotions in the soul , and the ...
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... whole round of pagan philo- sophy . And then , there was an undertone of sorrow , a voice of plaintive regret over man — a delicacy and tenderness of phrase that wonderfully attracted and endeared . What ineffable melancholy is there in ...
... whole round of pagan philo- sophy . And then , there was an undertone of sorrow , a voice of plaintive regret over man — a delicacy and tenderness of phrase that wonderfully attracted and endeared . What ineffable melancholy is there in ...
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... whole series of our poets who do not professedly write on the country , but are irresistibly led to it ; and from whom the love of it breaks out on all occa- sions ? In the French , the social feeling is the most strongly developed ; in ...
... whole series of our poets who do not professedly write on the country , but are irresistibly led to it ; and from whom the love of it breaks out on all occa- sions ? In the French , the social feeling is the most strongly developed ; in ...
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admiration amid amongst amusements ancient bear-baiting beauty bells Ben Jonson Bewick Blackwood's Magazine Boldre boughs bull-baiting Cann cattle charm Christmas church Cornwall cottage crown customs dancing deep deer delight Derbyshire Devon earth England English enjoyment eyes fair feeling festival fields fire flowers forest garden gone green hamlet happy head hear heart heaths heaven Henry VIII herd Hesiod hills holy human king labourers Lancashire land light literature living look Lord May-day May-pole merry mighty mind modern moorland morning mountains nature neighbouring noble Nottingham once passion peace picturesque play pleasure poetical poetry poets poor quintain racter red deer rich Robin Hood round rural rustic scene Scotland seems seen shew singing solitary soul sound spirit Staffordshire stand stone stream sublime summer sweet taste Theocritus things thou tion town trees village walk whole wild wonderful woods young
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Էջ 112 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Էջ 16 - Nature led ; more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.
Էջ 17 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Էջ 23 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Էջ 344 - Ah ! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun ! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds ! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves! And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Էջ 21 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Էջ 364 - UPON a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem, Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns...
Էջ 160 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept Against you come, some orient pearls unwept. Come, and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night, And Titan on the eastern hill Betires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth.
Էջ 20 - If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Էջ 160 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May: And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.