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... style , savour much more of concealed Popery than of avowed Protestantism , for surely no one who preferred the established religion of a country would forego the use of that powerful instrument in an attempt to excite a national ...
... style , savour much more of concealed Popery than of avowed Protestantism , for surely no one who preferred the established religion of a country would forego the use of that powerful instrument in an attempt to excite a national ...
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... style . " . " The explanation , as I think , is here imperfect . It is not their sense of beauty alone , since they have this in common with most primitive peoples ; it is their sense of beauty directed by their intellectual power which ...
... style . " . " The explanation , as I think , is here imperfect . It is not their sense of beauty alone , since they have this in common with most primitive peoples ; it is their sense of beauty directed by their intellectual power which ...
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... style and its intellectual backbone ; the last perfect metaphor alone , Type of the wise , who soar but never roam , True to the kindred points of heaven and home , being more than worth all Shelley's laborious similes . Since I am ...
... style and its intellectual backbone ; the last perfect metaphor alone , Type of the wise , who soar but never roam , True to the kindred points of heaven and home , being more than worth all Shelley's laborious similes . Since I am ...
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... style . You see , by this chance side - light , the poet at work , with great vividness . " Fashion'd " for " made " here , is not a great improvement ; but it brings the sentence curiously into the key of the rest of the scene . The ...
... style . You see , by this chance side - light , the poet at work , with great vividness . " Fashion'd " for " made " here , is not a great improvement ; but it brings the sentence curiously into the key of the rest of the scene . The ...
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... style of the former's gipsy romance , " The Hare , ” is a triumph of the happy - go - lucky : it gives the story both charm and reality . Wordsworth would have liked this poem , in the days when he was so unpunctual for meals , and of a ...
... style of the former's gipsy romance , " The Hare , ” is a triumph of the happy - go - lucky : it gives the story both charm and reality . Wordsworth would have liked this poem , in the days when he was so unpunctual for meals , and of a ...
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Page 188 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 343 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 129 - It is the presentation of such a "complex" instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; that sense of sudden growth, which we experience in the presence of the greatest works of art.
Page 57 - They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
Page 370 - Festoon you with may. Time, you old gipsy, Why hasten away? Last week in Babylon, Last night in Rome, Morning, and in the crush Under Paul's dome; Under Paul's dial You tighten your rein — Only a moment, And off once again; Off to some city Now blind in the womb, Off to another Ere that's in the tomb. Time, you old gipsy man...
Page 127 - thing" whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Page 62 - AUTUMN A TOUCH of cold in the Autumn night — I walked abroad, And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge Like a red-faced farmer. I did not stop to speak, but nodded, And round about were the wistful stars With white faces like town children.
Page 239 - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Page 453 - ... confer, That Eden of Love's watered ways Whose winds and spirits worship her. Brows, hands, and lips, heart, mind, and voice, . Kisses and words of Love-Lily, — Oh ! bid me with your joy rejoice Till riotous longing rest in me ! Ah ! let not hope be still distraught, But find in her its gracious goal, Whose speech Truth knows not from her thought Nor Love her body from her soul.
Page 31 - Some would think the souls of princes were brought forth by some more weighty cause than those of meaner persons : they are deceived, there's the same hand to them ; the like passions sway them ; the same reason that makes a vicar to go to law for a tithe-pig, and undo his neighbours, makes them spoil a whole province, and batter down goodly cities with the cannon.