Papers on Literature and Art, Partes1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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... poem , he must want nothing of what constitutes the poet , except the power of creating forms and speaking in music . He must have as good an eye and as fine a sense ; but if he had as fine an organ for expression also , he would make ...
... poem , he must want nothing of what constitutes the poet , except the power of creating forms and speaking in music . He must have as good an eye and as fine a sense ; but if he had as fine an organ for expression also , he would make ...
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... poems of Lord Herbert , which are known to few , a year ago , seemingly , were so to none in this part of the world . The only desire in translating them has been to do so literally , as any paraphrase , or addition of words impairs ...
... poems of Lord Herbert , which are known to few , a year ago , seemingly , were so to none in this part of the world . The only desire in translating them has been to do so literally , as any paraphrase , or addition of words impairs ...
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... poems may be interwoven there as cause and comment for all I felt , and knew , and was . The first contains my thought of the beginning and progress of life : - ( From the Latin of Lord Herbert . ) LIFE . First , the life stirred within ...
... poems may be interwoven there as cause and comment for all I felt , and knew , and was . The first contains my thought of the beginning and progress of life : - ( From the Latin of Lord Herbert . ) LIFE . First , the life stirred within ...
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... poem ; that is , a composition and pat- tern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men , or famous cities , unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is ...
... poem ; that is , a composition and pat- tern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men , or famous cities , unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is ...
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... poem , so holy in its purity and tenderness , so deli- ciously soft and soothing in its coloring , without feeling ... poems , which has never received its meed of fame ; I allude to Theodric . Who can be insensible to the charms of ...
... poem , so holy in its purity and tenderness , so deli- ciously soft and soothing in its coloring , without feeling ... poems , which has never received its meed of fame ; I allude to Theodric . Who can be insensible to the charms of ...
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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...