Our Living Poets: An Essay in Criticism, Volumen 1Tinsley brothers, 1871 - 512 páginas |
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A. C. SWINBURNE admirable Arnold artist Atalanta beauty blank verse Browning Browning's called character Christina Rossetti conceived Coventry Patmore critic Danaë death dramatic expression exquisite fact faculty feeling Felix Holt George Eliot give Glaucon Gudrun Guido hand heart human Hymn to Proserpine idea Idylls intellectual Kiartan King labour Lady less lines living lyric manner matter Medea ment method metre mind Miss Rossetti's Miss Smedley modern monologue Morris nature ness never noble once pantheism pass passages passion perfect Philip Van Artevelde piece play poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pompilia Preraphaelite prose racter reader regard Rossetti saga scene seems sense sentiment simply song sonnets Sordello soul speech stanzas story style sweet Swinburne tale Tennyson thee things thou thought tion treated truth utterance volume Walt Whitman wherein whole woman words
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Página 192 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven. Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem, No wrought flowers did adorn, But a white rose of Mary's gift, For service meetly worn ; Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.
Página 118 - Had you, with these the same, but brought a mind! Some women do so. Had the mouth there urged 'God and the glory! never care for gain. The present by the future, what is that? 'Live for fame, side by side with Agnolo! 'Rafael is waiting: up to God, all three!
Página 110 - Will't please you rise? We'll meet The company below, then. I repeat, The Count your master's known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll go Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
Página 117 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again — • A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak: its soul is right, He means right, — that, a child may understand. Still, what an arm ! and I could alter it : But all the play, the insight and the stretch — Out of me, out of me! And wherefore out? Had you enjoined them on me, given me soul, We might have risen to Rafael, I and you!
Página 45 - And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see; But if we could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He?
Página 376 - But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.
Página 34 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie ; Peace in her vineyard — yes!
Página 202 - Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, And her enchanted hair was the first gold. And still she sits, young while the earth is old, And, subtly of herself contemplative...
Página 329 - Brimming, and bright, and large ; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles...
Página 209 - I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu ; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose...