EssaysMacmillan, 1858 - 336 pagini |
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Pagina ix
... upon the undertaking . * One of these , a faithful and much loved friend , R. S. Rintoul , Esq . , has just been called away beyond the reach of our thanks . such republications are rarely successful even when the contents have PREFACE .
... upon the undertaking . * One of these , a faithful and much loved friend , R. S. Rintoul , Esq . , has just been called away beyond the reach of our thanks . such republications are rarely successful even when the contents have PREFACE .
Pagina 18
... called , the skill of the artist may be admired , but he will not be a popular poet ; and a poet who does not write at the heart of a people is no poet at all . The Miller's Daughter and The May Queen at once established Mr. Ten ...
... called , the skill of the artist may be admired , but he will not be a popular poet ; and a poet who does not write at the heart of a people is no poet at all . The Miller's Daughter and The May Queen at once established Mr. Ten ...
Pagina 33
... called The Epic , and contains a fragment on the death of King Arthur , read to the party assembled in a country- house at Christmas . Set thus amidst the fireside talk of Christmas Eve , Morte d ' Arthur ceases to be a fragment of ...
... called The Epic , and contains a fragment on the death of King Arthur , read to the party assembled in a country- house at Christmas . Set thus amidst the fireside talk of Christmas Eve , Morte d ' Arthur ceases to be a fragment of ...
Pagina 50
... , swept a lyre of such varied range , with so perfect a com- mand of every key . Moreover , none of these poems belong to the class called ' occasional . ' . They all have a construction which tells a complete story -often the 50 ESSAYS .
... , swept a lyre of such varied range , with so perfect a com- mand of every key . Moreover , none of these poems belong to the class called ' occasional . ' . They all have a construction which tells a complete story -often the 50 ESSAYS .
Pagina 55
... called his most popular poem . He , indeed , constructs his poems poetically , and certainly cannot be ranked with the mere exquisite worker of detail ; but all his detail is so exquisite in his finer poems , that it would be as ...
... called his most popular poem . He , indeed , constructs his poems poetically , and certainly cannot be ranked with the mere exquisite worker of detail ; but all his detail is so exquisite in his finer poems , that it would be as ...
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Pagina 138 - Ah ! need I say, dear Friend ! that to the brim My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows Were then made for me ; bond unknown to me Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit.
Pagina 115 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Pagina 41 - Dry clash' d his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Pagina 71 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Pagina 147 - Then it was—- Thanks to the bounteous Giver of all good ! — That the beloved Sister in whose sight Those days were passed, now speaking in a voice Of sudden admonition — like a brook That did but cross a lonely road, and now Is seen, heard, felt, and caught at every turn, Companion never lost through many a league — Maintained for me a saving intercourse With my true self...
Pagina 73 - Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Pagina 127 - A plastic power Abode with me; a forming hand, at times Rebellious, acting in a devious mood; A local spirit of his own, at war With general tendency, but, for the most, Subservient strictly to external things With which it communed.
Pagina 57 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells ; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Pagina 71 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Pagina 39 - Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt; Either from lust of gold, or like a girl Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes. Yet, for a man may fail in duty twice...