Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1J.F. Shaw, 1857 - 408 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... hand can neither fan nor quench it . It has been finely remarked that there can be poetry in the writings of few men , but it ought to be in the hearts and lives of all . This cause just noticed is not adequate fully to explain the ...
... hand can neither fan nor quench it . It has been finely remarked that there can be poetry in the writings of few men , but it ought to be in the hearts and lives of all . This cause just noticed is not adequate fully to explain the ...
Pagina 28
... hand , and that of an inferior artist , that the exactness of a likeness mechanically identical with its original does not make the same impression of truth as those indescribable touches which appeal through the eye to the imagination ...
... hand , and that of an inferior artist , that the exactness of a likeness mechanically identical with its original does not make the same impression of truth as those indescribable touches which appeal through the eye to the imagination ...
Pagina 32
... hand it was placed there , and for what purpose , it is no great stretch of faith to believe that there is in it - we know not how an intrinsic power to stir in the breast of each descendant of Noah somewhat of the same emotion as it ...
... hand it was placed there , and for what purpose , it is no great stretch of faith to believe that there is in it - we know not how an intrinsic power to stir in the breast of each descendant of Noah somewhat of the same emotion as it ...
Pagina 39
... hand of Midian into caves and dens , -when , smitten by the Philistines , the Ark of God was snatched from them ... hand to heaven , and say , I live for ever . If I whet my glittering sword , and my hand take hold on judgment , I will ...
... hand of Midian into caves and dens , -when , smitten by the Philistines , the Ark of God was snatched from them ... hand to heaven , and say , I live for ever . If I whet my glittering sword , and my hand take hold on judgment , I will ...
Pagina 49
... occupied the throne make the most brilliant half - century in the annals of England . The strong arm of the king had shaken the monarchy of France to its centre ; and when that E hand began to stiffen with age , the sword was.
... occupied the throne make the most brilliant half - century in the annals of England . The strong arm of the king had shaken the monarchy of France to its centre ; and when that E hand began to stiffen with age , the sword was.
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Pagina 373 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Pagina 163 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Pagina 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Pagina 108 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Pagina 368 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Pagina 332 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pagina 25 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Pagina 406 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Pagina 288 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Pagina 276 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.