Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... true feeling for nature , grew every hour on the mind . It was not long before George Crabbe became as firmly fixed in my bosom as a great and genuine poet , as Rembrandt , or Collins , or Edwin Landseer are as genuine painters . Crabbe ...
... true feeling for nature , grew every hour on the mind . It was not long before George Crabbe became as firmly fixed in my bosom as a great and genuine poet , as Rembrandt , or Collins , or Edwin Landseer are as genuine painters . Crabbe ...
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... true sublime of genuine human life . How novel at that time , and yet how thrilling , was the in- cident of the sea - side visitors surprised out on the sands by the rise of the tide . Here was real sublimity of distress , real display ...
... true sublime of genuine human life . How novel at that time , and yet how thrilling , was the in- cident of the sea - side visitors surprised out on the sands by the rise of the tide . Here was real sublimity of distress , real display ...
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... vice , of folly , and madness - and if you want a lesson , or a moral , there they are by thousands . " Crabbe knew that the true imaginative faculty had a a master . great and comprehensive task , to dive CRABB E. 11.
... vice , of folly , and madness - and if you want a lesson , or a moral , there they are by thousands . " Crabbe knew that the true imaginative faculty had a a master . great and comprehensive task , to dive CRABB E. 11.
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... true sublime . He has taught us that men are our proper objects of display , and that the multi- tude has claims on our sympathies that duty as well as taste demand obedience to . He was the first to dare these desperate and deserted ...
... true sublime . He has taught us that men are our proper objects of display , and that the multi- tude has claims on our sympathies that duty as well as taste demand obedience to . He was the first to dare these desperate and deserted ...
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... true poet , who is necessarily a true and feeling man . To him popular education , popular freedom , popular advance into knowledge and power , owe a debt which futurity will gratefully acknowledge , but no time can cancel.- George ...
... true poet , who is necessarily a true and feeling man . To him popular education , popular freedom , popular advance into knowledge and power , owe a debt which futurity will gratefully acknowledge , but no time can cancel.- George ...
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Página 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Página 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Página 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Página 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Página 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Página 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...