The Makers of Modern English: A Popular Handbook to the Greater Poets of the CenturyHodder & Stoughton, 1893 - 375 pages |
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... hearts of men , the need of communion with nature . Not the distorted nature of trim gardens and well - ordered parks , but nature in her solitude , her sternness , her terror ; the majesty of her scarred and tempest - riven rocks , the ...
... hearts of men , the need of communion with nature . Not the distorted nature of trim gardens and well - ordered parks , but nature in her solitude , her sternness , her terror ; the majesty of her scarred and tempest - riven rocks , the ...
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... heart of nature , and his own heart was ever open to her inspiration . When he described the flowers , the clouds , the weather , he did so with an inimitable fidelity . He put down just what he saw with the utmost simpli- city , one ...
... heart of nature , and his own heart was ever open to her inspiration . When he described the flowers , the clouds , the weather , he did so with an inimitable fidelity . He put down just what he saw with the utmost simpli- city , one ...
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... heart . As a love - poet he is unsurpassed and unapproachable . Such lines as Had we never loved so blindly , Had we never loved so kindly , Never met , and never parted , We had ne'er been broken - hearted , His are immortal . Scott ...
... heart . As a love - poet he is unsurpassed and unapproachable . Such lines as Had we never loved so blindly , Had we never loved so kindly , Never met , and never parted , We had ne'er been broken - hearted , His are immortal . Scott ...
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... heart of the man , but upon the whole they distort the true image of Burns . They give us an un- pleasant feeling that under the fascination of society the sturdiness of Burns's character suffered some deteriora- tion . It would not ...
... heart of the man , but upon the whole they distort the true image of Burns . They give us an un- pleasant feeling that under the fascination of society the sturdiness of Burns's character suffered some deteriora- tion . It would not ...
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... hearts of mankind to themselves are love and admiration . We may admire , and almost worship , but not love : we may love , and yet be unable to worship . We do not love Shakespeare , Goethe , or Milton . They tower above us in an ...
... hearts of mankind to themselves are love and admiration . We may admire , and almost worship , but not love : we may love , and yet be unable to worship . We do not love Shakespeare , Goethe , or Milton . They tower above us in an ...
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Page 282 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Page 132 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Page 263 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before...
Page 93 - 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 116 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 45 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
Page 260 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not its semblance but itself; no beauty, nor good nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 133 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 93 - I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures...
Page 313 - Brimming, and bright, and large ; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles — Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain- cradle in Pamere...