Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Հատոր 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... poem , " as Byron rightly called it , mys- tery is perhaps essential ; and there is a wonder that ought never to be broken - a dim uncertain light , that is " darkness visible , " and should neither be farther bright- ened nor obscured ...
... poem , " as Byron rightly called it , mys- tery is perhaps essential ; and there is a wonder that ought never to be broken - a dim uncertain light , that is " darkness visible , " and should neither be farther bright- ened nor obscured ...
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... poem , in our hum- ble opinion , was shorn of its brightest beams , and suffered disastrous twilight and severe eclipse - perplexing critics . Now , seeing that these pastimes are in number almost infinite , and infinite the varieties ...
... poem , in our hum- ble opinion , was shorn of its brightest beams , and suffered disastrous twilight and severe eclipse - perplexing critics . Now , seeing that these pastimes are in number almost infinite , and infinite the varieties ...
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... poem , that Fairy Queen of Spenser's ; nobody , of course , ever dreamt of getting through it ; but though you may have given up all hope of getting through a poem or a wood , you expect to be able to find your way back again to the ...
... poem , that Fairy Queen of Spenser's ; nobody , of course , ever dreamt of getting through it ; but though you may have given up all hope of getting through a poem or a wood , you expect to be able to find your way back again to the ...
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... poem . We have not time - how can we ? -to trace the history of the great revolution . But a great revolution there has been , from nobody's reading any thing , to every body's reading all things ; and perhaps it began with that good ...
... poem . We have not time - how can we ? -to trace the history of the great revolution . But a great revolution there has been , from nobody's reading any thing , to every body's reading all things ; and perhaps it began with that good ...
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... poem , the Recluse , by William Wordsworth - down to the first six books of that long , laborious , and unphilosophical poem , Nineveh , by Edwin Atherstone . What donkey was the first to bray that the annuals , the subject of this our ...
... poem , the Recluse , by William Wordsworth - down to the first six books of that long , laborious , and unphilosophical poem , Nineveh , by Edwin Atherstone . What donkey was the first to bray that the annuals , the subject of this our ...
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Էջ 271 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Էջ 270 - 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 243 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Էջ 205 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Էջ 297 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Էջ 264 - The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse...
Էջ 298 - 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 209 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Էջ 207 - The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Էջ 297 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.