Lectures and Essays on Various Subjects: Historical, Topographical, and ArtisticLongmans, 1858 - 308 pages |
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... chief aim of Poetry is to read in that world the symbolic language in which Nature everywhere speaks sublimely to the soul , and to reproduce that language , by the modifying powers of the poetic faculty , with the ideal images which ...
... chief aim of Poetry is to read in that world the symbolic language in which Nature everywhere speaks sublimely to the soul , and to reproduce that language , by the modifying powers of the poetic faculty , with the ideal images which ...
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... chief province in the description of natural objects : indeed in the pages of the Greek poets , passages descriptive of natural beauty are scarce ; yet no one can doubt their sensibility to the beauty and grandeur of nature , who ...
... chief province in the description of natural objects : indeed in the pages of the Greek poets , passages descriptive of natural beauty are scarce ; yet no one can doubt their sensibility to the beauty and grandeur of nature , who ...
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... for a new and purer faith ; and it spread rapidly and simultaneously over the chief part of Christendom , but in no country attained more character- istic purity , majesty , and grace than in Great 34 LECTURES AND ESSAYS .
... for a new and purer faith ; and it spread rapidly and simultaneously over the chief part of Christendom , but in no country attained more character- istic purity , majesty , and grace than in Great 34 LECTURES AND ESSAYS .
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... chief lights in Poetry should have been separated by such long intervals : Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared , And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard ; To carry Nature lengths unknown before- To give a Milton birth , asked ages ...
... chief lights in Poetry should have been separated by such long intervals : Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared , And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard ; To carry Nature lengths unknown before- To give a Milton birth , asked ages ...
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... chief glory of Nature . From the forest of royal Windsor ( said to have been formerly a hundred and twenty miles in circumference ) , to the remote remains of the ancient forest of Caledonia , most of the old wood- lands of Britain can ...
... chief glory of Nature . From the forest of royal Windsor ( said to have been formerly a hundred and twenty miles in circumference ) , to the remote remains of the ancient forest of Caledonia , most of the old wood- lands of Britain can ...
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Page 123 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 12 - 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, 670 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 10 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 10 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 54 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 298 - Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the Supreme Head; and that the said style, &c.
Page 116 - The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken up ; old things were passing away, and the faith and the life of ten centuries were dissolving like a dream. Chivalry was dying; the abbey and the castle were soon together to crumble into ruins; and all the forms, desires, beliefs, convictions of the old world were passing away, never to return.
Page 165 - In Cumnor Hall so lone and drear ; And many a heartfelt sigh she heaved, And let fall many a bitter tear.
Page 52 - The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays...
Page 121 - Instead of kitchen-stuff, some cry A Gospel-preaching Ministry ; And some for old suits, coats, or cloak, No Surplices nor Service-book...