Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 |
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Pagina 20
... Observe that what he does is to reproduce , in a concrete form , the position of man towards his hope of immortality , as discernible through intellectual efforts . And the mode in which this is done , so that the poem shall not be an ...
... Observe that what he does is to reproduce , in a concrete form , the position of man towards his hope of immortality , as discernible through intellectual efforts . And the mode in which this is done , so that the poem shall not be an ...
Pagina 28
... observing and recording the impressions she produced on himself ; and the finest instances of his genius , and those which distinguish him from all others , are when , steeped himself to the core in the finest and profoundest of her ...
... observing and recording the impressions she produced on himself ; and the finest instances of his genius , and those which distinguish him from all others , are when , steeped himself to the core in the finest and profoundest of her ...
Pagina 38
... observations worth noting ( if it be worth noting ) in that strangely barren work , the Life and Letters of Byron , is one in which his lordship main- tains that there are qualities in poetry closely corre- sponding with those which ...
... observations worth noting ( if it be worth noting ) in that strangely barren work , the Life and Letters of Byron , is one in which his lordship main- tains that there are qualities in poetry closely corre- sponding with those which ...
Pagina 45
... observation on himself , however , by inflicting so much of the subject - matter of it upon his readers . His pages are crowded with this sort of poem , when he has it in his power to write others infi- nitely superior to them . He must ...
... observation on himself , however , by inflicting so much of the subject - matter of it upon his readers . His pages are crowded with this sort of poem , when he has it in his power to write others infi- nitely superior to them . He must ...
Pagina 49
... observations are many of them extremely just and valuable . His love for the Athenian Drama has misled Mr. Arnold . He has rightly pointed out its most prominent feature when he says that it delineates great actions . But he goes on ...
... observations are many of them extremely just and valuable . His love for the Athenian Drama has misled Mr. Arnold . He has rightly pointed out its most prominent feature when he says that it delineates great actions . But he goes on ...
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affections artist Aurora Leigh beauty Ben Jonson Bulwer character characteristic Charlotte Brontë charm child common Crabbe doubt dramatic Edwin Morris English Eugene Aram expression external eyes fact false fancy feeling fiction Foe's genius George Cruikshank ghost give Goethe Greek hand harmony heart higher highest human idea imagination impression influence insight instincts intellect interest Jane Eyre lady least less lives look matter MATTHEW ARNOLD meaning Merope mind Miss Brontë modern Moll Flanders moral nature ness never novels passion perhaps phontes picture pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Polyphontes racter reader reality RICHARD HOLT HUTTON Robinson Crusoe Rogers scarcely seems sense social sort soul spirit story strong taste tells Tennyson Thackeray Thackeray's things thou thought tion true truth verse vivid whole WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE woman women words Wordsworth write
Populaire passages
Pagina 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Pagina 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Pagina 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Pagina 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pagina 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Pagina 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro