Essays Chiefly on Poetry, Volumen1Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... true that there is much in human character in which he took little of that special interest which a dramatist takes ; and no less that much of that familiar incident which delighted the ballad - maker of old , and constitutes the chief ...
... true that there is much in human character in which he took little of that special interest which a dramatist takes ; and no less that much of that familiar incident which delighted the ballad - maker of old , and constitutes the chief ...
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... true poet's knowledge of human character is thus in a large measure the result of a moral insight which sees both its intellectual and practical develop- ment enclosed within their moral germ , like the tree within the seed : though it ...
... true poet's knowledge of human character is thus in a large measure the result of a moral insight which sees both its intellectual and practical develop- ment enclosed within their moral germ , like the tree within the seed : though it ...
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... true to human nature : such boundless activities as Belphœbe rejoiced in are the aptest type of that redundant vitality , both moral and material , which suffices for itself , which can spend its energies for ever without a return , and ...
... true to human nature : such boundless activities as Belphœbe rejoiced in are the aptest type of that redundant vitality , both moral and material , which suffices for itself , which can spend its energies for ever without a return , and ...
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... true ; and truth is one in all : Of all things to dissemble fouly may befall . Absolutely unlike that of the Renaissance was Spenser's idea of Woman . In it Womanhood was not condemned to have her portion either in the torrid zone or ...
... true ; and truth is one in all : Of all things to dissemble fouly may befall . Absolutely unlike that of the Renaissance was Spenser's idea of Woman . In it Womanhood was not condemned to have her portion either in the torrid zone or ...
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... true social exist- ence even here below . Whatever is majestic in age , grave in authority , joyous and bright in boyhood or maidenhood , devout and lovely in childhood , excellent in the life wedded or unwedded , active or contem ...
... true social exist- ence even here below . Whatever is majestic in age , grave in authority , joyous and bright in boyhood or maidenhood , devout and lovely in childhood , excellent in the life wedded or unwedded , active or contem ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.