The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyH. Holt, 1907 - 388 pagina's |
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... of revolt . The fact that , on the one hand , such didacticism as Young's " Night Thoughts " and Pollok's " Course of Time " could pass for poetry at all , and that , on the other , whole sections of the reading public should 8 JOHN KEATS.
... of revolt . The fact that , on the one hand , such didacticism as Young's " Night Thoughts " and Pollok's " Course of Time " could pass for poetry at all , and that , on the other , whole sections of the reading public should 8 JOHN KEATS.
Pagina 24
... hands of the critics . It must be borne in mind that his work , with all its beauties , had very obvious defects ; the trouble with the re- viewers was that they had not the sympathy to see what Leigh Hunt saw when he wrote : " The very ...
... hands of the critics . It must be borne in mind that his work , with all its beauties , had very obvious defects ; the trouble with the re- viewers was that they had not the sympathy to see what Leigh Hunt saw when he wrote : " The very ...
Pagina 28
... hand , loved nature for her own sake , and gave slight thought to the infusion , of spiritual meaning into what he saw . His was the more absolute vision , which is neither obscured nor heightened , as the case may be , by an ...
... hand , loved nature for her own sake , and gave slight thought to the infusion , of spiritual meaning into what he saw . His was the more absolute vision , which is neither obscured nor heightened , as the case may be , by an ...
Pagina 42
... hand , So welcome when the tyrant is awake , So welcome when the bigot's hell - torch burns ; ' Tis but the voyage of a darksome hour , The transient gulph - dream of a startling sleep . Death is no foe to virtue : earth has seen 42 ...
... hand , So welcome when the tyrant is awake , So welcome when the bigot's hell - torch burns ; ' Tis but the voyage of a darksome hour , The transient gulph - dream of a startling sleep . Death is no foe to virtue : earth has seen 42 ...
Pagina 47
... listening spirit Until it walked , exempt from mortal care , Godlike , o'er the clear billows of sweet sound ; And human hands first mimicked and then mocked , With moulded limbs more lovely than its own , The PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 47.
... listening spirit Until it walked , exempt from mortal care , Godlike , o'er the clear billows of sweet sound ; And human hands first mimicked and then mocked , With moulded limbs more lovely than its own , The PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 47.
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Pagina 133 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: 319 While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the...
Pagina 53 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Pagina 49 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Pagina 208 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before...
Pagina 240 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Pagina 248 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Pagina 129 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Pagina 248 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Pagina 233 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Pagina 132 - The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude ; the poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.