The Living Authors of EnglandD. Appleton & Company, 1849 - 316 páginas |
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... Hope of the World , and other Poems . - Longbeard , a Romance , 3 vols . - Popular Delusions , 3 vols . - The Thames and its Tributaries , 2 vols .-- Salamandrine . - Legends of the Isles .-- Education of the People .-- Scenery and ...
... Hope of the World , and other Poems . - Longbeard , a Romance , 3 vols . - Popular Delusions , 3 vols . - The Thames and its Tributaries , 2 vols .-- Salamandrine . - Legends of the Isles .-- Education of the People .-- Scenery and ...
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... hope - blest voice demands that some peculiarity gives an individual value to every separate human being . " To which he answered scoffingly— " Good soul , suppose I grant it thee , Who'll weep for thy deficiency ? ' Or will one beam be ...
... hope - blest voice demands that some peculiarity gives an individual value to every separate human being . " To which he answered scoffingly— " Good soul , suppose I grant it thee , Who'll weep for thy deficiency ? ' Or will one beam be ...
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... dead are dead . " Oh ! the volume of thought , the world of suggestion , the chaos of doubt in that one line- " Thou canst not show the dead are dead . " 45 Finely Hope threads the perplexing maze of poetical metaphy- 44 BRITISH WRITERS .
... dead are dead . " Oh ! the volume of thought , the world of suggestion , the chaos of doubt in that one line- " Thou canst not show the dead are dead . " 45 Finely Hope threads the perplexing maze of poetical metaphy- 44 BRITISH WRITERS .
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Thomas Powell. 45 Finely Hope threads the perplexing maze of poetical metaphy- sics , and artistically utters , as an apology for the insufficiency of language , to render the mysterious clear . " I cannot make this matter plain , But I ...
Thomas Powell. 45 Finely Hope threads the perplexing maze of poetical metaphy- sics , and artistically utters , as an apology for the insufficiency of language , to render the mysterious clear . " I cannot make this matter plain , But I ...
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... hope to discontent . I wondered at the bounteous hours , The slow results of winter showers , You scarce could see the grass for flowers . I wondered while I passed along , The woods were filled so full with song , There seemed no room ...
... hope to discontent . I wondered at the bounteous hours , The slow results of winter showers , You scarce could see the grass for flowers . I wondered while I passed along , The woods were filled so full with song , There seemed no room ...
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Página 132 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 82 - DAY ! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay ; For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away ; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed, Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Flickered...
Página 76 - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy; You hardly could suspect — *> (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. "Well...
Página 53 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Página 53 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace...
Página 235 - There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them as we may.
Página 239 - Eternity, and some gleam of the latter peering through. 'Highest of all Symbols are those wherein the Artist or Poet has risen into Prophet, and all men can recognise a present God, and worship the same: I mean religious Symbols.
Página 92 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 75 - You know, we French stormed Ratisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind. Just as perhaps he mused, " My plans That soar, to earth may fall, Let once my army-leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall...
Página 45 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.