Essays Chiefly on Poetry, Volumen1Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... success in a high enterprise of song . A poet is best under- stood when compared with another , at once like him and unlike . the The great difference between the two philosophic poets lay in those moral and spiritual constituents of ...
... success in a high enterprise of song . A poet is best under- stood when compared with another , at once like him and unlike . the The great difference between the two philosophic poets lay in those moral and spiritual constituents of ...
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... successful in the introduction of human figures into their foregrounds ; whereas in the poetic paintings of Mr. Wordsworth the landscape is always subordinate to a higher interest . " 2 For exquisite touches of Nature thus subordinated ...
... successful in the introduction of human figures into their foregrounds ; whereas in the poetic paintings of Mr. Wordsworth the landscape is always subordinate to a higher interest . " 2 For exquisite touches of Nature thus subordinated ...
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... successful on the stage - those of Sir Bulwer Lytton and Sheridan Knowles - have not been those of the highest literary merits . The undramatic character of modern poetic genius is evinced by the fact that while so many plays have been ...
... successful on the stage - those of Sir Bulwer Lytton and Sheridan Knowles - have not been those of the highest literary merits . The undramatic character of modern poetic genius is evinced by the fact that while so many plays have been ...
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... successful . It In The new aspirant was fortunate in his theme . was taken from a period of history when the life of the Middle Ages was passing into that of modern political society , and when those picturesque pomps of chivalry with ...
... successful . It In The new aspirant was fortunate in his theme . was taken from a period of history when the life of the Middle Ages was passing into that of modern political society , and when those picturesque pomps of chivalry with ...
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... success of a leader as energy and fearlessness . offers Philip the supreme command in the people's name , and the recluse becomes the man of action . He desires to avenge his father's death ; he desires to rescue his country from ...
... success of a leader as energy and fearlessness . offers Philip the supreme command in the people's name , and the recluse becomes the man of action . He desires to avenge his father's death ; he desires to rescue his country from ...
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admirable allegory beauty belongs Belphoebe blended Book breath Britomart canto character characteristic chiefly cloud delight delineated descriptive divine doth drama dream Duke of Bourbon earth Elena face faculty Faery Queen fair faith fear Flanders flowers genius Ghent gifts glory gods goodly Gothic architecture grace grave happy harmony hath heart heaven higher highest human ideal illustrated imagination impassioned instinct intellect knight Laodamia less Liberty light live look Lucretius man's metre mind moral mountain Nature Nature's never Ode to Duty once pass passages passion pathos Philip van Artevelde poem poet poet's poetic political reader regarded remarkable scene seems sense song sonnet sorrow soul Spenser Spenser's poetry spirit stanza sweet sympathy tender thee theme things thou thought Tintern Abbey trees true truth virtue vision voice William Rowan Hamilton wisdom Wordsworth's poetry Wordsworthian youth
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Página 151 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 254 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Página 130 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 254 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Página 261 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Página 143 - tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Página 253 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 157 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul...
Página 191 - It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea ..:"- Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters unwithstood...
Página 130 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.