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... Poet Laureate , & c . London , 1849 , VII . The Method of the Divine Government , Physical and Moral . By the Rev. James M'Cosh , A.M. 8vo . , pp . 540. Edinburgh , 1850 , VIII . In Memoriam . London , 1850. 12mo . , 473 509 532 IX ...
... Poet Laureate , & c . London , 1849 , VII . The Method of the Divine Government , Physical and Moral . By the Rev. James M'Cosh , A.M. 8vo . , pp . 540. Edinburgh , 1850 , VIII . In Memoriam . London , 1850. 12mo . , 473 509 532 IX ...
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... poet . It certainly is painful to find such versatility of talent consumed in sentimental verses on obso- lete extravagance , or in the resurrection of scenes and people whose history the world would rather wish to bury in oblivion ...
... poet . It certainly is painful to find such versatility of talent consumed in sentimental verses on obso- lete extravagance , or in the resurrection of scenes and people whose history the world would rather wish to bury in oblivion ...
Pagina 5
... poets as Cowper or Virgil- the staple material for the poet's dreams . The prose introductions are written in a style of solemn gravity to which we know no parallel . Their object is to pre- pare the reader of the coming ballads for a ...
... poets as Cowper or Virgil- the staple material for the poet's dreams . The prose introductions are written in a style of solemn gravity to which we know no parallel . Their object is to pre- pare the reader of the coming ballads for a ...
Pagina 7
... poet , -has disturbed the mouldering bones of ensepulchred persecutions , and has thrown us back again amid the wild madness and cruelties on the one side , and the stifled vengeance and burning memories on the other . An old ulcer lay ...
... poet , -has disturbed the mouldering bones of ensepulchred persecutions , and has thrown us back again amid the wild madness and cruelties on the one side , and the stifled vengeance and burning memories on the other . An old ulcer lay ...
Pagina 17
Wodrow and Walker . The Poet's Perverted Commentary . 19 blood but she was. a country man , than I have of this person , FROM PEOPLE OF SENSE AND CREDIT , YET ALIVE , WHO KNEW HIM . He had a small bit of land in that parish , and was a ...
Wodrow and Walker . The Poet's Perverted Commentary . 19 blood but she was. a country man , than I have of this person , FROM PEOPLE OF SENSE AND CREDIT , YET ALIVE , WHO KNEW HIM . He had a small bit of land in that parish , and was a ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 175 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Pagina 175 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Pagina 479 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pagina 501 - twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Pagina 176 - I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian.
Pagina 119 - 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 G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Pagina 493 - All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate, imitative of the chase" And woodland pleasures, - the resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
Pagina 500 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
Pagina 550 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet. Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet; And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good.
Pagina 175 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.