The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, 3. köideMacmillan and Company, 1882 |
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... sentiments , and apparently life , of this lively little candidate for poetical distinction , and the character of his first original publication , the poems by Thomas Little , of which Posterity remembers nothing except that they were ...
... sentiments , and apparently life , of this lively little candidate for poetical distinction , and the character of his first original publication , the poems by Thomas Little , of which Posterity remembers nothing except that they were ...
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... . Thus the mingling of the fictitious and the real , the sin- cerity and good faith of present passion with all the casuistry and artifice of fictitious sentiment , gave an additional BYRON . ] 27 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
... . Thus the mingling of the fictitious and the real , the sin- cerity and good faith of present passion with all the casuistry and artifice of fictitious sentiment , gave an additional BYRON . ] 27 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
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Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret). casuistry and artifice of fictitious sentiment , gave an additional attraction . The guilt , and grandeur , and hopeless misery were all alike sham , yet the feeling was true : and this artificial character , if ...
Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret). casuistry and artifice of fictitious sentiment , gave an additional attraction . The guilt , and grandeur , and hopeless misery were all alike sham , yet the feeling was true : and this artificial character , if ...
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... sentiment . All , or almost all , the enchantment which once sur- rounded the hero has vanished , and a profaner public smiles at the gloomy grandeur and self - absorbed con- scious sublimity of this mysteriously guilty personage , who ...
... sentiment . All , or almost all , the enchantment which once sur- rounded the hero has vanished , and a profaner public smiles at the gloomy grandeur and self - absorbed con- scious sublimity of this mysteriously guilty personage , who ...
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... living in every line , so rapid in narra- tive , so intense in sentiment , that the monotony of the one oft - repeated impersonation was not only for- • It given but delighted in . In such a case BYRON . ] 37 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
... living in every line , so rapid in narra- tive , so intense in sentiment , that the monotony of the one oft - repeated impersonation was not only for- • It given but delighted in . In such a case BYRON . ] 37 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
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Page 153 - BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night. And watching, with eternal lids apart. Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 116 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 136 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise: Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 58 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Page 118 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 108 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing ; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside the helm conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.
Page 68 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 116 - 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 grey in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
Page 266 - With deep affection • And recollection, I often think of Those Shandon bells, "Whose sounds so wild would. In the days of childhood, . . Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On, this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee,— With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand, on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Page 66 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.