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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... poet of Christabel ' and the Ancient Mariner ' is but little truly known in that common literary world , which , without the prerogative of conferring fame hereafter , can most surely give or prevent popularity for the pre- sent . In ...
... poet of Christabel ' and the Ancient Mariner ' is but little truly known in that common literary world , which , without the prerogative of conferring fame hereafter , can most surely give or prevent popularity for the pre- sent . In ...
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... poet's reputation could be built ; yet they are inte- resting now as measuring the boyish powers of a great author . We never read any juvenile poems that so distinctly foretokened the character of all that the poet has since done ; in ...
... poet's reputation could be built ; yet they are inte- resting now as measuring the boyish powers of a great author . We never read any juvenile poems that so distinctly foretokened the character of all that the poet has since done ; in ...
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... poet are very often extremely faint , as in Byron's case , in early youth , it is universally otherwise with regard to high excel- lence in versification considered apart and by itself . Like the ear for music , the sense of metrical ...
... poet are very often extremely faint , as in Byron's case , in early youth , it is universally otherwise with regard to high excel- lence in versification considered apart and by itself . Like the ear for music , the sense of metrical ...
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... poets , and you will recognize how possible it is for verses to be exquisitely melodious , and yet to fall far short ... poet . It is Mr. Coleridge's own strong remark , that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with ...
... poets , and you will recognize how possible it is for verses to be exquisitely melodious , and yet to fall far short ... poet . It is Mr. Coleridge's own strong remark , that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with ...
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... poet's manner of reciting verse is similar . It is not rhe- torical , but musical : so very near recitative , that for any one else to attempt it would be ridiculous ; and yet it is perfectly miracu- lous with what exquisite searching ...
... poet's manner of reciting verse is similar . It is not rhe- torical , but musical : so very near recitative , that for any one else to attempt it would be ridiculous ; and yet it is perfectly miracu- lous with what exquisite searching ...
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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.