Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... wish to kneel down at her feet - the lady whose spotless innocence preserves her from the fiends of that haunted wood . She and the Una of the Fairy Queen might be sisters ; nor , were such creatures as they ever to walk over our earth ...
... wish to kneel down at her feet - the lady whose spotless innocence preserves her from the fiends of that haunted wood . She and the Una of the Fairy Queen might be sisters ; nor , were such creatures as they ever to walk over our earth ...
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... wish to know something about the great grown - up people of the world -- how they behave and employ themselves in dif- ferent countries -- all enlightened , as you know , however distant from one another , by the same sun . But more ...
... wish to know something about the great grown - up people of the world -- how they behave and employ themselves in dif- ferent countries -- all enlightened , as you know , however distant from one another , by the same sun . But more ...
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... wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety ! " So much for the angler . The shooter , again , he begins with his pop or pipe - gun , formed of the last year's growth of a branch of the plane - tree - the beautiful dark green ...
... wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety ! " So much for the angler . The shooter , again , he begins with his pop or pipe - gun , formed of the last year's growth of a branch of the plane - tree - the beautiful dark green ...
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... wish your only boy - your son and heir -- the blended image of his mother's loveliness and his father's manly beauty -- to be a smug , smooth , prim , and proper prig , with his hair always combed down on his forehead , hands always ...
... wish your only boy - your son and heir -- the blended image of his mother's loveliness and his father's manly beauty -- to be a smug , smooth , prim , and proper prig , with his hair always combed down on his forehead , hands always ...
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... wish to die of laughing - to fall into guffaw - convulsions . Such a way of making love ! But you know better - you know that the annuals are a native growth of the soil of England , spring- ing up , like white and red clover beneath ...
... wish to die of laughing - to fall into guffaw - convulsions . Such a way of making love ! But you know better - you know that the annuals are a native growth of the soil of England , spring- ing up , like white and red clover beneath ...
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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.