Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyScott, Webster & Geary, 1842 - 490 páginas |
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... strong , also , was the enthralment of this established language , that the talented , as well as the inane , were obliged to succumb to it ; and thus the finest poetry of this century , equally with the trash of Magazines and ...
... strong , also , was the enthralment of this established language , that the talented , as well as the inane , were obliged to succumb to it ; and thus the finest poetry of this century , equally with the trash of Magazines and ...
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... strong and fervent spirit of her people was aroused to thought and inquiry , she advanced in consequence , with all the freshness and buoyancy of a first existence , to the creation of a national poetry ; and instead of taking their ...
... strong and fervent spirit of her people was aroused to thought and inquiry , she advanced in consequence , with all the freshness and buoyancy of a first existence , to the creation of a national poetry ; and instead of taking their ...
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... strong a sensation as if he had entered into a modern contest arrayed in the panoply of the middle ages . He selected military glory for his theme , —a theme at all times too dear to the human heart , but more es- pecially at this ...
... strong a sensation as if he had entered into a modern contest arrayed in the panoply of the middle ages . He selected military glory for his theme , —a theme at all times too dear to the human heart , but more es- pecially at this ...
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... strong interest in their author ; and on examining into the nature of the youth's attainments , he was surprised to find so much perseverance in the acquirement of Latin and mathematics , combined with such utter ignorance of general ...
... strong interest in their author ; and on examining into the nature of the youth's attainments , he was surprised to find so much perseverance in the acquirement of Latin and mathematics , combined with such utter ignorance of general ...
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... strong disgust , This prodigy of drunkenness and lust Explore the darkest cells , the dirtiest styes , And roll in filth at which their gorge would rise ; He play'd one master - trick to crown the whole , And took , O Heavens ! the ...
... strong disgust , This prodigy of drunkenness and lust Explore the darkest cells , the dirtiest styes , And roll in filth at which their gorge would rise ; He play'd one master - trick to crown the whole , And took , O Heavens ! the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 111 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Página 417 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue...
Página 109 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea 30 Give themselves up to jollity...
Página 106 - My brother John and I. And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side.' ' How many are you, then,' said I, * If they two are in heaven ?' Quick was the little Maid's reply,
Página 413 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 112 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Página 380 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Página 414 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Página 167 - That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright, And that he knew it was a fiend...
Página 108 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose, The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.