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... beauty and perfection , than at others . Unlike the other arts , which are more dependent on the completeness of mechanical instruments , and only attain their maturity with the progressive civilization of a nation ; this often darts ...
... beauty and perfection , than at others . Unlike the other arts , which are more dependent on the completeness of mechanical instruments , and only attain their maturity with the progressive civilization of a nation ; this often darts ...
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... beauty . You will find on the other hand , the most boyish inflation and extravagance of expression — a de- parture from the analogy of language in the use of tropes , and a sad uncouthness in the expression of their tattered and ...
... beauty . You will find on the other hand , the most boyish inflation and extravagance of expression — a de- parture from the analogy of language in the use of tropes , and a sad uncouthness in the expression of their tattered and ...
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... beauty of such rich and condensed descriptions ! There is nothing more characteristic of poetical genius in the forms of expression , than felicitous and original adjectives . How refreshingly abundant are these in the pure pages of ...
... beauty of such rich and condensed descriptions ! There is nothing more characteristic of poetical genius in the forms of expression , than felicitous and original adjectives . How refreshingly abundant are these in the pure pages of ...
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... beauty and simplicity of thought and expression ; a departure from all the rules that regulate poetic lan- guage , both in the manufacture of terms , and the number and kind of poetical figures ; a want of every thing like sweet cadence ...
... beauty and simplicity of thought and expression ; a departure from all the rules that regulate poetic lan- guage , both in the manufacture of terms , and the number and kind of poetical figures ; a want of every thing like sweet cadence ...
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... beauty reign , Thy peaceful bosom knows no vulgar pain , Fair gems of fadeless worth bedeck thy head , Thy heart by streams of vestal light is fed , Sweet virtue weaves a laurel on her throne , To deck thy brow and mark thee for her own ...
... beauty reign , Thy peaceful bosom knows no vulgar pain , Fair gems of fadeless worth bedeck thy head , Thy heart by streams of vestal light is fed , Sweet virtue weaves a laurel on her throne , To deck thy brow and mark thee for her own ...
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Page 96 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith; Of blessed consolations in distress; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Page 48 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Page 90 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay . In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Page 94 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Page 155 - ... while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 90 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Page 93 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die; But in the mountains did he feel his faith.
Page 75 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 89 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Page 67 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...