Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... appearance , and the effect of which was increased by a voice surpassingly sweet and musical , indicated with perfect truth the qualities of the mind within . Seriousness , studiousness , fondness for flowers and music , fondness also ...
... appearance , and the effect of which was increased by a voice surpassingly sweet and musical , indicated with perfect truth the qualities of the mind within . Seriousness , studiousness , fondness for flowers and music , fondness also ...
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... whole poem a consistent conception of the Angels . He is likewise consistent in his description of them as physical agents . Lofty stature and appearance carry with them a promise of so much physical power ; and 58 THE THREE DEVILS :
... whole poem a consistent conception of the Angels . He is likewise consistent in his description of them as physical agents . Lofty stature and appearance carry with them a promise of so much physical power ; and 58 THE THREE DEVILS :
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... appearance of a gigantic being , standing up , as it were , with his back to a wall , and yet utterly break down , and not be able to find words , when he tried to describe this gigantic being stepping forth into colossal activity , and ...
... appearance of a gigantic being , standing up , as it were , with his back to a wall , and yet utterly break down , and not be able to find words , when he tried to describe this gigantic being stepping forth into colossal activity , and ...
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... appearance and physical greatness , the events of the Paradise Lost might have happened nevertheless ; but the chain of volitions would not have been the same , and it would have been impossible for any human poet to realise the ...
... appearance and physical greatness , the events of the Paradise Lost might have happened nevertheless ; but the chain of volitions would not have been the same , and it would have been impossible for any human poet to realise the ...
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... appearance which Satan had assumed , points out the way to Paradise . Alighting on the surface of the new world , Satan walks about immersed in thought . Heaven's gate was in view . Overhead and round him were the quiet hills and the ...
... appearance which Satan had assumed , points out the way to Paradise . Alighting on the surface of the new world , Satan walks about immersed in thought . Heaven's gate was in view . Overhead and round him were the quiet hills and the ...
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Seite 11 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Seite 3 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Seite 54 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Seite 433 - Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...
Seite 452 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Seite 47 - 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...
Seite 370 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish: — this is our high argument.
Seite 453 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Seite 453 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Seite 27 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...