Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... hear some world- wise thinker cry . But has not one of the wisest of spirits said " The child is father of the man ? " And if so , ought the man ever to lose sight of any single one of those dear , dim , delightful remembrances , far ...
... hear some world- wise thinker cry . But has not one of the wisest of spirits said " The child is father of the man ? " And if so , ought the man ever to lose sight of any single one of those dear , dim , delightful remembrances , far ...
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... , eclipsing us all ! Our family , through all its different branches , has ever been famous for bad voices , but good ears ; and we think we hear ourselves- all those uncles and aunts , nephews , and nieces CHRISTMAS DREAMS . 19.
... , eclipsing us all ! Our family , through all its different branches , has ever been famous for bad voices , but good ears ; and we think we hear ourselves- all those uncles and aunts , nephews , and nieces CHRISTMAS DREAMS . 19.
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... hear faint and far off a sacred music , - " Where through the long - drawn aisle and fretted vault , The pealing anthem swells the note of praise ! " How steeped in the beauty of moonlight are all those CHRISTMAS DREAMS . 21.
... hear faint and far off a sacred music , - " Where through the long - drawn aisle and fretted vault , The pealing anthem swells the note of praise ! " How steeped in the beauty of moonlight are all those CHRISTMAS DREAMS . 21.
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... hear them breathing in their sleep , —and whisper - for it will not disturb them — a prayer by the bedside of my children . To - morrow is Christmas day — and thankful am I indeed to Providence ! CHRISTMAS PRESENTS . ( Blackwood's ...
... hear them breathing in their sleep , —and whisper - for it will not disturb them — a prayer by the bedside of my children . To - morrow is Christmas day — and thankful am I indeed to Providence ! CHRISTMAS PRESENTS . ( Blackwood's ...
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... hear the music- band of a regiment of cavalry - say the Scots Grays- hundreds of heroes following on - on - on - with their glit- tering casques , and each with a sabre , erst red perchance at Waterloo , in his strong right hand . Aha ...
... hear the music- band of a regiment of cavalry - say the Scots Grays- hundreds of heroes following on - on - on - with their glit- tering casques , and each with a sabre , erst red perchance at Waterloo , in his strong right hand . Aha ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration beautiful behold beneath Betty Foy birds Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine breath bright Caroline Caroline Bowles character Charlotte Smith cheerful child child is father Christopher North clouds cottage cottage ornée creature dark dear delight diction divine dream earth Edinburgh eyes fear feeling flowers genius gentle glory Gray hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hour human imagination language light living look Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads Milton mind morning mountains nature never night o'er once passage passion perhaps Peter Bell pleasant pleasure poem poet poet's poetic diction poetical poetry prose reader round Scotland seems shadows Shakspeare sight silent sing sleep smile solemn song sonnet soul sound speak spirit stars sweet taste tears thee thing thou thought tion touch trees true verse voice whole wonder words Wordsworth Wordsworthian writings young
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.