The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 181. köideA. Constable, 1895 |
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Page 37
... beauty to the cheeks Of those that love and meet , but mine are pale ; For merciless disdain on me she wreaks , And hides her visage from my passionate tale : I hear her only , only when she speaks- Bhanavar , unveil ! ' I have thee ...
... beauty to the cheeks Of those that love and meet , but mine are pale ; For merciless disdain on me she wreaks , And hides her visage from my passionate tale : I hear her only , only when she speaks- Bhanavar , unveil ! ' I have thee ...
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... beauty . What more need be asked to suggest illustrative situations ? Feudal tyrants and their fierce retainers are set upon the maiden and her wealth , and they succeed in spiriting her away to a fortress in the volcanic uplands of the ...
... beauty . What more need be asked to suggest illustrative situations ? Feudal tyrants and their fierce retainers are set upon the maiden and her wealth , and they succeed in spiriting her away to a fortress in the volcanic uplands of the ...
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Or Critical Journal. beauty is sought and brought back before her purity has been sullied . Superstition and ... beauty , and in the consciousness of her command of the susceptible hearts of the admirers she dazzles by her charms ...
Or Critical Journal. beauty is sought and brought back before her purity has been sullied . Superstition and ... beauty , and in the consciousness of her command of the susceptible hearts of the admirers she dazzles by her charms ...
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... beauty strongly developed , and no subject excites him more passionately . He knows how women may be wooed and won , according to their several moods and temperaments . Alive to the beauties of Nature as he is to the beauty of woman ...
... beauty strongly developed , and no subject excites him more passionately . He knows how women may be wooed and won , according to their several moods and temperaments . Alive to the beauties of Nature as he is to the beauty of woman ...
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... beauty is a power . Has she actual beauty , actual wit ? -not simply a tidal , material beauty that passes current among pretty flippancy or staggering pretentiousness ? Grant the combination , she will appear a veritable queen of her ...
... beauty is a power . Has she actual beauty , actual wit ? -not simply a tidal , material beauty that passes current among pretty flippancy or staggering pretentiousness ? Grant the combination , she will appear a veritable queen of her ...
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Page 491 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 491 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 491 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 490 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Page 491 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How 'dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho
Page 527 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast...
Page 506 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 259 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English.
Page 490 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.