The Makers of Modern English: A Popular Handbook to the Greater Poets of the CenturyHodder and Stoughton, 1890 - 375 pages |
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... perhaps , he feels a deep curiosity to know more of that strange and visionary spirit whose winged words have fascinated him . He wants to know what relation his poetry has to the other poetry of his time , and what is the true secret ...
... perhaps , he feels a deep curiosity to know more of that strange and visionary spirit whose winged words have fascinated him . He wants to know what relation his poetry has to the other poetry of his time , and what is the true secret ...
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... perhaps it is the homeliness of his verse which has done much to obscure its great qualities . Byron called him " Nature's sternest painter and the best ; " Words- worth predicted for him immortality ; Scott read him with renewed and ...
... perhaps it is the homeliness of his verse which has done much to obscure its great qualities . Byron called him " Nature's sternest painter and the best ; " Words- worth predicted for him immortality ; Scott read him with renewed and ...
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... perhaps better than any man , says emphatically , " His ruin was owing to his want of decision of character and power of will , without which genius is a curse . " Nor does Haydon speak in the spirit of a censorious critic . He loved ...
... perhaps better than any man , says emphatically , " His ruin was owing to his want of decision of character and power of will , without which genius is a curse . " Nor does Haydon speak in the spirit of a censorious critic . He loved ...
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... perhaps uncon- scious , originator . He created the school of ornate and artistic poetry poetry which has no human robustness or passion about it , but which excels in the exquisite- ness of its workmanship , and the delicacy and remote ...
... perhaps uncon- scious , originator . He created the school of ornate and artistic poetry poetry which has no human robustness or passion about it , but which excels in the exquisite- ness of its workmanship , and the delicacy and remote ...
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... perhaps we may accept the fanciful transformation of his own imagery which Shelley made , when he wrote : Here lieth one whose name was writ in water ; But , ere the breath that could erase it blew , Death , in remorse for that fell ...
... perhaps we may accept the fanciful transformation of his own imagery which Shelley made , when he wrote : Here lieth one whose name was writ in water ; But , ere the breath that could erase it blew , Death , in remorse for that fell ...
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Page 306 - 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 134 - 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 95 - 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 302 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here! "Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself! "Thou hast no power nor mayst conceive of mine, "But love I gave thee, with myself to love, "And thou must love me who have died for thee!
Page 118 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Page 47 - 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 94 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, fortunate fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Page 284 - 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 95 - 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 135 - 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...