Papers on Literature and Art, Partes1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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... muse I took my first lesson . With a look , it seem'd denied All earthly powers but hers , yet so As if to her breath he did owe This borrow'd life , he thus replied— And shall our love , so far beyond That low and dying appetite , And ...
... muse I took my first lesson . With a look , it seem'd denied All earthly powers but hers , yet so As if to her breath he did owe This borrow'd life , he thus replied— And shall our love , so far beyond That low and dying appetite , And ...
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... muses were enough for one Greece , and nine poets are enough for one country , even in the nineteenth century . And these nine are " a sacred nine , " who , if not quite equal to Shakspeare , Spenser , and Milton , are fairly initiated ...
... muses were enough for one Greece , and nine poets are enough for one country , even in the nineteenth century . And these nine are " a sacred nine , " who , if not quite equal to Shakspeare , Spenser , and Milton , are fairly initiated ...
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... muse is light of step and free of air , yet not vulgarly free ; she is not a little excited , but it is with quaffing the purest and most sparkling champagne . There is no tem- perance , no chastened harmony in her grief or in her joy ...
... muse is light of step and free of air , yet not vulgarly free ; she is not a little excited , but it is with quaffing the purest and most sparkling champagne . There is no tem- perance , no chastened harmony in her grief or in her joy ...
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... muse of Southey is a beautiful statue of crystal , in whose bosom burns an immortal flame . We hardly admire , as they de- serve , the perfection of the finish , and the elegance of the con- tours , because our attention is so fixed on ...
... muse of Southey is a beautiful statue of crystal , in whose bosom burns an immortal flame . We hardly admire , as they de- serve , the perfection of the finish , and the elegance of the con- tours , because our attention is so fixed on ...
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... muse thee served with thoughtful vow ; And what of hope Elysium could allow Was fondly seized by Sculpture , to restore Peace to the mourner's soul ; but he who wore The crown of thorns around his bleeding brow , Warmed our sad being ...
... muse thee served with thoughtful vow ; And what of hope Elysium could allow Was fondly seized by Sculpture , to restore Peace to the mourner's soul ; but he who wore The crown of thorns around his bleeding brow , Warmed our sad being ...
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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 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 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 37 - Fra Pandolf" by design: for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
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 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.
Página 75 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Página 88 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars ; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen : Yon crescent Moon as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are ! in.
Página 75 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...