Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, 2. köideLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... taste of our poetical readers ; and though some bards have always been before their age , and some behind it , the greater part must be pretty near on its level . Present popularity , whatever disappointed writers may say , is , after ...
... taste of our poetical readers ; and though some bards have always been before their age , and some behind it , the greater part must be pretty near on its level . Present popularity , whatever disappointed writers may say , is , after ...
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... taste or literature : -the rest slumber on the shelves of collectors , and are partially known to a few antiquaries and scholars . Now , the fame of a Poet , is popular , or nothing . He does not address himself , like the man of ...
... taste or literature : -the rest slumber on the shelves of collectors , and are partially known to a few antiquaries and scholars . Now , the fame of a Poet , is popular , or nothing . He does not address himself , like the man of ...
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... taste . We cannot now afford to give any ab- stract of the information it contains - but shall make a few extracts , to show the tone and manner of the com- position . - - - The following sketch of Chaucer , for instance , and of the ...
... taste . We cannot now afford to give any ab- stract of the information it contains - but shall make a few extracts , to show the tone and manner of the com- position . - - - The following sketch of Chaucer , for instance , and of the ...
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... taste of their age , admits of no sort of apology . Their drama , nevertheless , is a very wide one , and has ample room and verge enough ' to permit the attention to wander from these , and to fix on more inviting pecu- liarities as on ...
... taste of their age , admits of no sort of apology . Their drama , nevertheless , is a very wide one , and has ample room and verge enough ' to permit the attention to wander from these , and to fix on more inviting pecu- liarities as on ...
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... taste of his age . Comus came into the world unacknowledged by its author , and Lycidas ap- peared at first only with his initials . These , and other exquisite pieces , composed in the happiest years of his life , at his father's ...
... taste of his age . Comus came into the world unacknowledged by its author , and Lycidas ap- peared at first only with his initials . These , and other exquisite pieces , composed in the happiest years of his life , at his father's ...
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Page 381 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 462 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, — But let us part fair foes ; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, — hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing ; I would also deem O'er others...
Page 453 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 464 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Page 73 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east...
Page 158 - His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun
Page 460 - This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring . Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night...
Page 80 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 193 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 139 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.