Papers on Literature and Art, Partes1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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... higher state of development , which might give the young who are soon to constitute the state , a higher standard in thought and ac- tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have hoped that , by being thus raised above ...
... higher state of development , which might give the young who are soon to constitute the state , a higher standard in thought and ac- tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have hoped that , by being thus raised above ...
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... higher power interposed , as much as I see that yonder tree is distinct from myself . Shall I repeat to you some poor verses in which I have told , by means of various like- nesses , in an imperfect fashion , how it is with me in this ...
... higher power interposed , as much as I see that yonder tree is distinct from myself . Shall I repeat to you some poor verses in which I have told , by means of various like- nesses , in an imperfect fashion , how it is with me in this ...
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... higher state shall ensue , And a sixth , and all , in fine , that my heart shall know how to ask . CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE HEAVENLY LIFE . Purified in my whole genius , I congratulate myself Secure of fate , while neither am I ...
... higher state shall ensue , And a sixth , and all , in fine , that my heart shall know how to ask . CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE HEAVENLY LIFE . Purified in my whole genius , I congratulate myself Secure of fate , while neither am I ...
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... higher powers , and blessed beings With whom I desire to mingle fires and sacred bonds- Passing from joy to joy the heaven of all , What has been given to ourselves , or sanctioned by a common vow . God , in the meantime , accumulating ...
... higher powers , and blessed beings With whom I desire to mingle fires and sacred bonds- Passing from joy to joy the heaven of all , What has been given to ourselves , or sanctioned by a common vow . God , in the meantime , accumulating ...
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... higher happiness than mine . was the destined portion of men . They are too immature to form permanent relations ; all that they do seems experiment , and mostly fails for the present . Thus I had postponed all hopes except of fleeting ...
... higher happiness than mine . was the destined portion of men . They are too immature to form permanent relations ; all that they do seems experiment , and mostly fails for the present . Thus I had postponed all hopes except of fleeting ...
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admiration Ambla Artevelde artist Bach beauty Beethoven better breast brother calm character Charles Wesley charm child clavichord critic Dædalus deep delight divine drama earth expression eyes faith fancy feel felt flowers fugue genius give grace Handel happy harmony harpsichord Haydn hear heart heaven honour hope hour human intellectual interest John Sebastian less light literature lives look Lord Madame de Staël means measured music melody mind misanthropy Mozart muse nature never noble o'er Paracelsus passages passion perfect Philip Van Artevelde picture play pleasure poems poet poetic poetry present Prince reverence rich scene seems Senesino Shakspeare Sir James Mackintosh song soul speak spirit Strafford SWEDENBORGIANISM sweet sympathy taste tears tender thee things thou thought tion tone true truth verse whole wish words Wordsworth write
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Página 71 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 72 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 37 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 40 - In speech (which I have not) to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this "Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, "Or there exceed the mark...
Página 87 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Página 74 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.
Página 74 - A love in desolation masked— a Power Girt round with weakness — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour ; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly ; on a cheek The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break.
Página 157 - Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint old town of toil and traffic, quaint old town of art and song, Memories haunt thy pointed gables, like the rooks that round them throng: Memories of the Middle Ages, when the emperors, rough and bold, Had their dwelling in thy castle, time-defying, centuries old; And thy brave and thrifty burghers boasted, in their uncouth rhyme, That their great imperial city stretched its hand through every clime.
Página 72 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee; Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Página 88 - To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.