The Quarterly Review, Volumen 154John Murray, 1882 |
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... less alone throughout his life ; throughout his reign , even during the season of apparent prosperity , he was in a solitude . ' And to him , lost in mental absorption , those signs from England and from Scotland conveyed no warning ...
... less alone throughout his life ; throughout his reign , even during the season of apparent prosperity , he was in a solitude . ' And to him , lost in mental absorption , those signs from England and from Scotland conveyed no warning ...
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... less an ideal , was unknown in Italy , where the soldier's life was a pageant or a debauch . The sober obedience which formed our English liberties , the sense of personal worth , which can only exist under the dominion of law , is ...
... less an ideal , was unknown in Italy , where the soldier's life was a pageant or a debauch . The sober obedience which formed our English liberties , the sense of personal worth , which can only exist under the dominion of law , is ...
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... less truly than Athens . It is true that there is something grotesque in the equal crown of honour given to Petrarch and to Beccadelli ; but in Italy alone were scholars rightly honoured . It is true that few now read the master ...
... less truly than Athens . It is true that there is something grotesque in the equal crown of honour given to Petrarch and to Beccadelli ; but in Italy alone were scholars rightly honoured . It is true that few now read the master ...
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... less interesting from the remoteness of its subjects , and inferior in poetic fire to the English poem , the ' Morgante ' is yet worthy to be its precursor ; and in vigour and manliness , in speed and security of diction , in all that ...
... less interesting from the remoteness of its subjects , and inferior in poetic fire to the English poem , the ' Morgante ' is yet worthy to be its precursor ; and in vigour and manliness , in speed and security of diction , in all that ...
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... less a truth . 6 Boiardo , the contemporary of Pulci , is one of many writers whose fame has been obscured by a greater , as the genius of Shakspeare has rebuked that of Marlowe , as the star of Lessing pales before Schiller and Goethe ...
... less a truth . 6 Boiardo , the contemporary of Pulci , is one of many writers whose fame has been obscured by a greater , as the genius of Shakspeare has rebuked that of Marlowe , as the star of Lessing pales before Schiller and Goethe ...
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Página 65 - ... mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Página 72 - Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;— I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Página 56 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Página 80 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Página 79 - Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong.
Página 72 - The Solitary Reaper BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping, and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Página 164 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 72 - 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!
Página 321 - ... with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires — crowned, as she is, with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and...
Página 164 - Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink; And just a trace of silver sand Marks where the water meets the land. Far in the mirror, bright and blue, Each hill's huge outline you may view; Shaggy with heath, but lonely bare, Nor tree, nor bush, nor brake is there, Save where, of land, yon slender line Bears thwart the lake the scattered pine.