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... living writer , who has , with high power and eloquence , treated man's sense of enjoyment of nature and art , remarks : " Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality , for if we can only admire this thing or that , we may be ...
... living writer , who has , with high power and eloquence , treated man's sense of enjoyment of nature and art , remarks : " Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality , for if we can only admire this thing or that , we may be ...
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... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test -- the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test -- the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
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... living men and women . We use books for instruction or amusement , but hardly enough for guidance . Let me rapidly exemplify this principle , the value of which is , perhaps , in danger of being over- looked only from its simplicity ...
... living men and women . We use books for instruction or amusement , but hardly enough for guidance . Let me rapidly exemplify this principle , the value of which is , perhaps , in danger of being over- looked only from its simplicity ...
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... living writer , who has exercised his powers alike in prose and verse , that there are readers " to whom the poetical form merely and of itself acts as a sort of veil to every meaning , which is not habitually met with under that form ...
... living writer , who has exercised his powers alike in prose and verse , that there are readers " to whom the poetical form merely and of itself acts as a sort of veil to every meaning , which is not habitually met with under that form ...
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... living things were seen In movement or repose . I looked upon a stately hill , That well was named the mount of song , Where golden shadows dwelt at will , The woods and streams among . But most this fact my wonder bred , Though known ...
... living things were seen In movement or repose . I looked upon a stately hill , That well was named the mount of song , Where golden shadows dwelt at will , The woods and streams among . But most this fact my wonder bred , Though known ...
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Sida 195 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Sida 231 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Sida 228 - Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound : Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Sida 167 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Sida 305 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Sida 275 - Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more ; He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill : At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy — for the starlight dews All silently their tears of...
Sida 305 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Sida 111 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It...
Sida 240 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Sida 305 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.