Lectures on the British Poets, Band 1J.F. Shaw, 1857 - 408 Seiten |
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... elements of its glory , to cause its sublimity or its beauty to be felt more and more deeply , and not only felt , but understood , that the understanding may have cognizance of that which the heart has loved . It is to criticism thus ...
... elements of its glory , to cause its sublimity or its beauty to be felt more and more deeply , and not only felt , but understood , that the understanding may have cognizance of that which the heart has loved . It is to criticism thus ...
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... elements of criticism than in the minstrelsy of the mighty dead , and the life which is the pulse of every living heart . It would not be inappropriate for me here to examine what is the union of qualifications essential to the ...
... elements of criticism than in the minstrelsy of the mighty dead , and the life which is the pulse of every living heart . It would not be inappropriate for me here to examine what is the union of qualifications essential to the ...
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... element is the market , and which concentrates the in- tensity of man's being - to describe it in a familiar way - within that busy but small portion of the day comprehended between the hours of nine and three , making life a kind of ...
... element is the market , and which concentrates the in- tensity of man's being - to describe it in a familiar way - within that busy but small portion of the day comprehended between the hours of nine and three , making life a kind of ...
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... elements of their great imaginings . The dulness Sydney complained of was the dark hour be- fore the coming dawn . His plea touched the slumbering spirit of his nation , like the breath of morning , waking them to a day more glorious ...
... elements of their great imaginings . The dulness Sydney complained of was the dark hour be- fore the coming dawn . His plea touched the slumbering spirit of his nation , like the breath of morning , waking them to a day more glorious ...
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... elements , that no limit seems to be set in this respect to human expectation . The mind has scarce time to recover from its admiration of some invention or achievement by powers disclosed by mechanical science , before it is called ...
... elements , that no limit seems to be set in this respect to human expectation . The mind has scarce time to recover from its admiration of some invention or achievement by powers disclosed by mechanical science , before it is called ...
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Seite 373 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Seite 163 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Seite 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 108 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Seite 368 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Seite 332 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 25 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Seite 406 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Seite 288 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Seite 276 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.