Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Հատոր 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... eyes , as any one of all the stars that , in their turn , did seem themselves like flowers in the blue fields of heaven ! —long , long , long ago , the time when we danced along , hand in hand with our golden - haired sister , whom all ...
... eyes , as any one of all the stars that , in their turn , did seem themselves like flowers in the blue fields of heaven ! —long , long , long ago , the time when we danced along , hand in hand with our golden - haired sister , whom all ...
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... eyes , so like another , for what hath any night to be proud of but one moon and some thousand stars - a vault ... eye of him who has long communed with Nature , and is familiar 16 WILSON'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... eyes , so like another , for what hath any night to be proud of but one moon and some thousand stars - a vault ... eye of him who has long communed with Nature , and is familiar 16 WILSON'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... eyes , bedimmed into a pathetic beauty , in any degree restrain the glee that sparkled in orbs that had as yet shed not many tears , but tears of pity or of joy . Dearly she loved all those mortal creatures whom she was soon about to ...
... eyes , bedimmed into a pathetic beauty , in any degree restrain the glee that sparkled in orbs that had as yet shed not many tears , but tears of pity or of joy . Dearly she loved all those mortal creatures whom she was soon about to ...
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... eyes to the past - duty banished some abroad , and duty imprisoned others at home - estrangements there were , at first unconscious and unintended , yet ere long , though causeless , complete - changes were wrought insen- sibly ...
... eyes to the past - duty banished some abroad , and duty imprisoned others at home - estrangements there were , at first unconscious and unintended , yet ere long , though causeless , complete - changes were wrought insen- sibly ...
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... eyes fixed all the while on that divine picture over the altar , of our Saviour 66 Bearing his cross up rueful Calvary . " But " a change comes o'er the spirit of my dream . ” How beautiful in the setting sunlight are these mountains of ...
... eyes fixed all the while on that divine picture over the altar , of our Saviour 66 Bearing his cross up rueful Calvary . " But " a change comes o'er the spirit of my dream . ” How beautiful in the setting sunlight are these mountains of ...
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Էջ 260 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Էջ 201 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Էջ 308 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Էջ 265 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Էջ 168 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Էջ 206 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Էջ 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace: Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Էջ 222 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Էջ 246 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old.
Էջ 215 - ... must often, in liveliness and truth, fall short of that which is uttered by men in real life, under the actual pressure of those passions, certain shadows of which the poet thus produces, or feels to be produced, in himself.