Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the AuthorJohn Taylor, Bookseller, 1866 - 173 էջ |
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... nature to which their ima- ginations do not give a poetic hue . Campbell called poetry " the eloquence of truth . " That definition may be as good as many more - none will serve for poetry in all its moods ; but it would be a great step ...
... nature to which their ima- ginations do not give a poetic hue . Campbell called poetry " the eloquence of truth . " That definition may be as good as many more - none will serve for poetry in all its moods ; but it would be a great step ...
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... nature . " the But some may ask , what is poetry ? Many definitions have been attempted , and , perhaps , none successful . " It is , " says Aristotle , " imitation ; " " it is , " says Johnson , art of pleasing ; " " it is , " says ...
... nature . " the But some may ask , what is poetry ? Many definitions have been attempted , and , perhaps , none successful . " It is , " says Aristotle , " imitation ; " " it is , " says Johnson , art of pleasing ; " " it is , " says ...
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... nature of his employment and incessant application to business , proved too much for his frame , and he gradually sunk of con- sumption . He died the 4th January , 1865 , leaving a widow and three children , one son and two daughters ...
... nature of his employment and incessant application to business , proved too much for his frame , and he gradually sunk of con- sumption . He died the 4th January , 1865 , leaving a widow and three children , one son and two daughters ...
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... Nature . Sweet it is , At such a time , when labour's task is done , To hie us to our village viçinage- To some sequester'd spot - some shady grove , Where cooing dove and screeching owl is heard Blending in one their music of extremes ...
... Nature . Sweet it is , At such a time , when labour's task is done , To hie us to our village viçinage- To some sequester'd spot - some shady grove , Where cooing dove and screeching owl is heard Blending in one their music of extremes ...
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... Nature's wayward child , Ask ye for beauties fair , serene , romantic , stern , or wild ? Then hither come , and hear upon the hawthorn bush or tree The sweetest strains that can regale the ear of melody ; High in the air the skylark ...
... Nature's wayward child , Ask ye for beauties fair , serene , romantic , stern , or wild ? Then hither come , and hear upon the hawthorn bush or tree The sweetest strains that can regale the ear of melody ; High in the air the skylark ...
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Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the Author Robert Duthie Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1866 |
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Էջ 160 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Էջ 175 - was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Էջ 162 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Էջ 173 - And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Էջ 178 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops...
Էջ 177 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds...
Էջ 174 - And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for His own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Էջ 164 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Էջ 161 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand: For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...
Էջ 154 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.