The Living Authors of EnglandD. Appleton & Company, 1849 - 316 páginas |
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... reader , and it will materially lessen the admiration of future ages . We shall , however , adhere to the rule we laid down in the com- mencement of this chapter , and treat the poets under consideration as an exception to the rule we ...
... reader , and it will materially lessen the admiration of future ages . We shall , however , adhere to the rule we laid down in the com- mencement of this chapter , and treat the poets under consideration as an exception to the rule we ...
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... readers and admirers , which undoubtedly his genius deserves . Curiously enough , it is to his prose works that he owes the small popularity he enjoys . His " Imaginary Conversations " have , for years , 32 BRITISH WRITERS . Bryan ...
... readers and admirers , which undoubtedly his genius deserves . Curiously enough , it is to his prose works that he owes the small popularity he enjoys . His " Imaginary Conversations " have , for years , 32 BRITISH WRITERS . Bryan ...
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... readers to study and find out the puz- zle or hidden meaning , as in Carlyle ; but in poetry it is not so ; and we offer as a proof - Browning . The romantic facts of Mr. Landor's life are too well known to require recapitulation . We ...
... readers to study and find out the puz- zle or hidden meaning , as in Carlyle ; but in poetry it is not so ; and we offer as a proof - Browning . The romantic facts of Mr. Landor's life are too well known to require recapitulation . We ...
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... reader will find more to ad- mire than to censure ; but the critics sometimes are deaf , " charm ye never so wisely " their ears are shut to music , and their eyes to beauty . Three years afterwards , Mr. Tennyson published another vo ...
... reader will find more to ad- mire than to censure ; but the critics sometimes are deaf , " charm ye never so wisely " their ears are shut to music , and their eyes to beauty . Three years afterwards , Mr. Tennyson published another vo ...
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... readers thoughts of the utmost subtlety . The poem is an argument , pro . and con . between the hopeful and despondent impulses of our nature , one prompting to suicide , the other urging cheerfulness and patience : " A still small ...
... readers thoughts of the utmost subtlety . The poem is an argument , pro . and con . between the hopeful and despondent impulses of our nature , one prompting to suicide , the other urging cheerfulness and patience : " A still small ...
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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 - Of eastern cloud an hour away, But forth one wavelet then another curled, Till the whole sunrise not to be...
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 76 - 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.
Página 42 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. "An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Página 189 - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Página 241 - 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 7 - Oh. strange indifference ! low and high Drowsed over common joys and cares ; The earth was still — but knew not why The world was listening, unawares. How calm a moment may precede One that shall thrill the world...
Página 262 - Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Página 46 - On to God's house the people prest; Passing the place where each must rest, Each enter'd like a welcome guest. One walk'd between his wife and child, With measured footfall firm and mild, And now and then he gravely smiled. The prudent partner of his blood Lean'd on him, faithful, gentle, good, Wearing the rose of womanhood. And in their double love secure, The little maiden walk'd demure, Pacing with downward eyelids pure.