Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volym 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... better understood by hearts softened and sublimed by strains inspired into the souls of great poets by devoutest contemplation of his works . Therefore , child , " with gentle hand Touch , for there is a spirit in the leaves ! " Fanny ...
... better understood by hearts softened and sublimed by strains inspired into the souls of great poets by devoutest contemplation of his works . Therefore , child , " with gentle hand Touch , for there is a spirit in the leaves ! " Fanny ...
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... better for the weakness of the body than that which soothes and tranquillises the soul . Last of all - there is the bright - bound , beautiful " Bijou , " -so brightly bound , that by pressing it to thy bosom , it will impart very ...
... better for the weakness of the body than that which soothes and tranquillises the soul . Last of all - there is the bright - bound , beautiful " Bijou , " -so brightly bound , that by pressing it to thy bosom , it will impart very ...
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... Better far that he should begin early to break your heart , by taking no care even of his Sunday's clothes - blotting his copy - impiously pin- ning pieces of paper to the dominie's tail , who to him was a second father - going to the ...
... Better far that he should begin early to break your heart , by taking no care even of his Sunday's clothes - blotting his copy - impiously pin- ning pieces of paper to the dominie's tail , who to him was a second father - going to the ...
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... better speerit never steamed in sma ' - still . She offers another with " hinny , " by way of Athole brose ; but it is put off till evening , for coursing requires a clear head , and the same sobriety then adorned our youth , that now ...
... better speerit never steamed in sma ' - still . She offers another with " hinny , " by way of Athole brose ; but it is put off till evening , for coursing requires a clear head , and the same sobriety then adorned our youth , that now ...
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... better eating than a hare , though old blockhead Burton - and he was a block- head , if blockhead ever there was one in this world — in his Anatomy , chooses to call it melancholy meat . he ever , by way of giving dinner a fair ...
... better eating than a hare , though old blockhead Burton - and he was a block- head , if blockhead ever there was one in this world — in his Anatomy , chooses to call it melancholy meat . he ever , by way of giving dinner a fair ...
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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
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Sida 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...
Sida 201 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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?
Sida 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.
Sida 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.