Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... earth and heaven ! And why should moralists mourn over that mutability that gives the chief charm to all that passes so transitorily before our eyes , leaving image upon image fairer and dearer far than even the realities , still ...
... earth and heaven ! And why should moralists mourn over that mutability that gives the chief charm to all that passes so transitorily before our eyes , leaving image upon image fairer and dearer far than even the realities , still ...
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... earth , when she— her coffin - and that velvet pall descended — and descended -slowly , slowly into the horrid clay , and we were borne deathlike , and wishing to die , out of the churchyard , that , from that moment , we thought we ...
... earth , when she— her coffin - and that velvet pall descended — and descended -slowly , slowly into the horrid clay , and we were borne deathlike , and wishing to die , out of the churchyard , that , from that moment , we thought we ...
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... earth - but to be hymning in heaven . Of that house - to our eyes the fairest of earthly dwell- ings - with its old ivied turrets , and orchard - garden , bright alike with fruit and flowers , not one stone re- mains ! The very brook ...
... earth - but to be hymning in heaven . Of that house - to our eyes the fairest of earthly dwell- ings - with its old ivied turrets , and orchard - garden , bright alike with fruit and flowers , not one stone re- mains ! The very brook ...
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... earth , that , as it bounded along in bliss , it was but as the same creation with the grass , the flowers , the streams , the trees , the clouds , the sky , and its days and nights , -all of them bound together by one invisible chain ...
... earth , that , as it bounded along in bliss , it was but as the same creation with the grass , the flowers , the streams , the trees , the clouds , the sky , and its days and nights , -all of them bound together by one invisible chain ...
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... earth , could they turn away their gracious and benignant smiles from such a maiden as thou art — for thou too art without spot or blemish - nor could force nor fraud prevail against thee ; for , true it is as words of holy writ , that ...
... earth , could they turn away their gracious and benignant smiles from such a maiden as thou art — for thou too art without spot or blemish - nor could force nor fraud prevail against thee ; for , true it is as words of holy writ , that ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 260 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Seite 201 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Seite 308 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Seite 265 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Seite 168 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Seite 206 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Seite 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace: Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Seite 222 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Seite 246 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old.
Seite 215 - ... must often, in liveliness and truth, fall short of that which is uttered by men in real life, under the actual pressure of those passions, certain shadows of which the poet thus produces, or feels to be produced, in himself.