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... poet's pen , " and even by that inspired instrument are seldom in strict fidelity transfixed on the poet's page . It only remains , among preliminaries , to relate how I became acquainted with the individual I have very imperfectly ...
... poet's pen , " and even by that inspired instrument are seldom in strict fidelity transfixed on the poet's page . It only remains , among preliminaries , to relate how I became acquainted with the individual I have very imperfectly ...
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... Poet's predomi- nating traits . You seldom meet with Edmund in a storm , or behold his eye " in a fine frenzy rolling , " but he conducts you on a calmly - flowing tide , over waters whose little heavings and undulations are lit by ...
... Poet's predomi- nating traits . You seldom meet with Edmund in a storm , or behold his eye " in a fine frenzy rolling , " but he conducts you on a calmly - flowing tide , over waters whose little heavings and undulations are lit by ...
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... poet's admirers . He ex- pressed the sadness , not unpleasing , with which the contemplation of the departing sun had filled him— a state of feeling aided by solemn reflections suggested by the thoughtful Poet ; and alluded to a severe ...
... poet's admirers . He ex- pressed the sadness , not unpleasing , with which the contemplation of the departing sun had filled him— a state of feeling aided by solemn reflections suggested by the thoughtful Poet ; and alluded to a severe ...
Page 59
... Poet's aim bear the stamp of nobility , and approve themselves " Majestic in their own simplicity . " I do not , of course , intend the term " simplicity " to apply to those indeterminable hypotheses of a pre- vious state of existence ...
... Poet's aim bear the stamp of nobility , and approve themselves " Majestic in their own simplicity . " I do not , of course , intend the term " simplicity " to apply to those indeterminable hypotheses of a pre- vious state of existence ...
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... Poet has recognised in the made a sha- dowing forth of the attributes of the Maker , and , if devout , has caused this discernment of the Deity to redound to His praise . It is the Poet's function -and how august a function ! -to rend ...
... Poet has recognised in the made a sha- dowing forth of the attributes of the Maker , and , if devout , has caused this discernment of the Deity to redound to His praise . It is the Poet's function -and how august a function ! -to rend ...
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Page 145 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 162 - Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 138 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 146 - With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers.
Page 113 - Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.
Page 136 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 161 - His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Page 160 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
Page 121 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 77 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.