Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Հատոր 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... sure some simple hearts , that recognise the expression of some of their own emotions , -similar , or the same , - although life and its circumstances may have been diffe- rent , for in every single sentence , if it be but sincere , a ...
... sure some simple hearts , that recognise the expression of some of their own emotions , -similar , or the same , - although life and its circumstances may have been diffe- rent , for in every single sentence , if it be but sincere , a ...
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... sure a more graceful curtsy was never seen - and it will make the author , who is my very dear friend - whom I love more than I can venture to express , and whom I have , on that account , placed foremost now - and not for his mere ...
... sure a more graceful curtsy was never seen - and it will make the author , who is my very dear friend - whom I love more than I can venture to express , and whom I have , on that account , placed foremost now - and not for his mere ...
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... sure in the calm , tells how bravely it would stand the storm . There is Sir Walter and his family , all charac- teristically figured in rustic guise by the genuis of Wilkie . And the letter which gives the key to the picture , you will ...
... sure in the calm , tells how bravely it would stand the storm . There is Sir Walter and his family , all charac- teristically figured in rustic guise by the genuis of Wilkie . And the letter which gives the key to the picture , you will ...
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... sure footing on bridle - paths , or upon the pathless braes - and by judicious horsemanship , you may meet the pack at many a loud - mouthed burst , and haply be not far out at the death . But the schoolboy - and the shepherd - and the ...
... sure footing on bridle - paths , or upon the pathless braes - and by judicious horsemanship , you may meet the pack at many a loud - mouthed burst , and haply be not far out at the death . But the schoolboy - and the shepherd - and the ...
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... sure , and pre- venting all possibility of the dying Christian's escape . Let oak branches smite the too slowly stooping skull , or rider's back not timely levelled with his steed's ; let faithless bank give way , and bury in the brook ...
... sure , and pre- venting all possibility of the dying Christian's escape . Let oak branches smite the too slowly stooping skull , or rider's back not timely levelled with his steed's ; let faithless bank give way , and bury in the brook ...
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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.