Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volumen 3Knight, 1824 |
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... poetical travellers , such as De Staël , Byron , Chateaubriand , Nodier , and others , who embody the whole mind of a nation and mix it with their own ; you recognise in their descriptions some general characteristics , although you ...
... poetical travellers , such as De Staël , Byron , Chateaubriand , Nodier , and others , who embody the whole mind of a nation and mix it with their own ; you recognise in their descriptions some general characteristics , although you ...
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... poetical essentially connected with Italy , with its customs and with its religion ; and a man who does not feel this seems to us to lose one half of what is to be felt in that . country . There poetry becomes reality , although to ...
... poetical essentially connected with Italy , with its customs and with its religion ; and a man who does not feel this seems to us to lose one half of what is to be felt in that . country . There poetry becomes reality , although to ...
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The North of Italy is the country of plenty , -less poetical , but better cul- tivated . It has also its recollections of glorious deeds and great men , although of a more recent date and less imposing aspect . It has produced Doria ...
The North of Italy is the country of plenty , -less poetical , but better cul- tivated . It has also its recollections of glorious deeds and great men , although of a more recent date and less imposing aspect . It has produced Doria ...
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... poetical , but such an elevated tone would be painful if carried to excess in a familiar book of Travels . Inflation of sentiment is by no means a vice of this writer ; he depicts ordinary scenes in a smooth and level style , and he ...
... poetical , but such an elevated tone would be painful if carried to excess in a familiar book of Travels . Inflation of sentiment is by no means a vice of this writer ; he depicts ordinary scenes in a smooth and level style , and he ...
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... poetical embellishment ; and some for the author's attachment to his favourite village ; and it is the allowance thus claimed which gives to the place its pecu- liar charm , the conviction that it is still Cowper's Weston . we sink It ...
... poetical embellishment ; and some for the author's attachment to his favourite village ; and it is the allowance thus claimed which gives to the place its pecu- liar charm , the conviction that it is still Cowper's Weston . we sink It ...
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Página 38 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 191 - Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Página 83 - Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Página 189 - SWIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth. The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Ocean's orison arose, To which the birds tempered their matin lay.
Página 86 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Página 190 - I PANT for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Página 190 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight...
Página 191 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Página 39 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 304 - ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts...