A Free Lance in the Field of Life and LettersA. Mason, 1874 - 340 pages |
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... poems as novels , that she has hitherto wrought upon the taste and the conscience of her age . The present inquiry will seek to be strictly imper- sonal - that is to say , there will be no attempt to import an irrelevant interest into ...
... poems as novels , that she has hitherto wrought upon the taste and the conscience of her age . The present inquiry will seek to be strictly imper- sonal - that is to say , there will be no attempt to import an irrelevant interest into ...
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... poem only in the form of expression which they give to the thought . In the form of expression they are inferior ... poetic as it ought to be - that is , as nearly poetic as it could be , and remain completely and homogeneously prose ...
... poem only in the form of expression which they give to the thought . In the form of expression they are inferior ... poetic as it ought to be - that is , as nearly poetic as it could be , and remain completely and homogeneously prose ...
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... poets . George Eliot , according to her genius , had a perfectly palpable concrete thought to express . She refined it , she sublimated it , she did everything in short but permanently change it from its proper native state as prose ...
... poets . George Eliot , according to her genius , had a perfectly palpable concrete thought to express . She refined it , she sublimated it , she did everything in short but permanently change it from its proper native state as prose ...
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... poetic justice done him at last that the long suspended devel- opment of his doom has been leading us to expect on his behalf . He has his will of life as far as to the end , and at the end he escapes the catastrophe that he would most ...
... poetic justice done him at last that the long suspended devel- opment of his doom has been leading us to expect on his behalf . He has his will of life as far as to the end , and at the end he escapes the catastrophe that he would most ...
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... poem , in the first collection , is no more effeminate than the latest , in the last . The quality of the strength exhib- ited does not seem to be much changed from the one to the other ; but the volume of the strength is bravely ...
... poem , in the first collection , is no more effeminate than the latest , in the last . The quality of the strength exhib- ited does not seem to be much changed from the one to the other ; but the volume of the strength is bravely ...
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Page 73 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 211 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 210 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 99 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream; but what am I? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page 176 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 247 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 148 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Page 248 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Page 83 - And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Page 205 - With fairy laughter blent ? And what if, in the evening light, Betrothed lovers walk in sight Of my low monument ? I would the lovely scene around Might know no sadder sight nor sound.