The Quarterly Review, Volumen 52William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1834 |
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... give or prevent popularity for the pre- sent . In that circle he commonly passes for a man of genius , who has written some very beautiful verses , but whose original powers , whatever they were , have been long since lost or con ...
... give or prevent popularity for the pre- sent . In that circle he commonly passes for a man of genius , who has written some very beautiful verses , but whose original powers , whatever they were , have been long since lost or con ...
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... give away their motion to the stars ; Those stars that glide behind them or between , Now sparkling , now bedimmed , but always seen ; Yon crescent moon , as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless , starless lake of blue ; - I see ...
... give away their motion to the stars ; Those stars that glide behind them or between , Now sparkling , now bedimmed , but always seen ; Yon crescent moon , as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless , starless lake of blue ; - I see ...
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... give to his countrymen of every circle an historic drama of highest excellence and enduring national interest . This grand work - Wallenstein ' -which , although not similar , is analogous to the historic plays of Shakspeare , will , as ...
... give to his countrymen of every circle an historic drama of highest excellence and enduring national interest . This grand work - Wallenstein ' -which , although not similar , is analogous to the historic plays of Shakspeare , will , as ...
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... give reasons for things , or inculcate humanity to beasts.The Arabian Nights " might have taught me better . ' They might the tale of the merchant's son who puts out the eyes of a genii by flinging his date - shells down a well , and is ...
... give reasons for things , or inculcate humanity to beasts.The Arabian Nights " might have taught me better . ' They might the tale of the merchant's son who puts out the eyes of a genii by flinging his date - shells down a well , and is ...
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... give the sort of pleasure expected of him at the time , and because , not con- tented with that , he is sure , by precept or example , to show a contempt for the taste and judgment of the expectants . He is always , and by the law of ...
... give the sort of pleasure expected of him at the time , and because , not con- tented with that , he is sure , by precept or example , to show a contempt for the taste and judgment of the expectants . He is always , and by the law of ...
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Página 332 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — ;both what they half create, And what perceive...
Página 42 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Página 29 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 332 - For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 32 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain ! O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor swell's!
Página 33 - And there I felt thee ! — on that sea-cliff's verge, Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above, Had made one murmur with the distant surge ! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty ! my spirit felt thee there.
Página 14 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Página 364 - Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Página 324 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Página 336 - Tis Nature's law That none, the meanest of created things, Of forms created the most vile and brute, The dullest or most noxious, should exist Divorced from good, a spirit and pulse of good, A life and soul, to every mode of being Inseparably linked.