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... living voice . Still earlier , ere writing had been there devised , think how the rhapsodists of Greece and Asia Minor wandered through their lands , reciting at the courts of kings , and the crowded festivals of the gods , the epic of ...
... living voice . Still earlier , ere writing had been there devised , think how the rhapsodists of Greece and Asia Minor wandered through their lands , reciting at the courts of kings , and the crowded festivals of the gods , the epic of ...
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... living unity present , the whole thing is an entirety . The great stem is there , rooted fast in the ground , and well capable of sustaining its mass of foliage . Do we not feel the same to be true also in music ? What more inane and ...
... living unity present , the whole thing is an entirety . The great stem is there , rooted fast in the ground , and well capable of sustaining its mass of foliage . Do we not feel the same to be true also in music ? What more inane and ...
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... living thing for a time , but has no root and withers away— a dead stock . Life consists in unity . It is the One in the Many . A thing that is not an entirety is dead . Imitations from nature are not entireties . Now our sole appeal ...
... living thing for a time , but has no root and withers away— a dead stock . Life consists in unity . It is the One in the Many . A thing that is not an entirety is dead . Imitations from nature are not entireties . Now our sole appeal ...
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... living , speaking , loving reality itself . It is the story of Pygmalion's image realized . In another ode Anacreon endeavours to describe his favourite Bathyllus in the same way , by the aid of a painter , who is to copy the most ...
... living , speaking , loving reality itself . It is the story of Pygmalion's image realized . In another ode Anacreon endeavours to describe his favourite Bathyllus in the same way , by the aid of a painter , who is to copy the most ...
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... living under a genial sky in a land of extraordinary loveliness , unconquered even by the mighty hosts of Media , the Hellenic race in the age of Sophocles and Pheidias could give full scope to a free and imaginative spirit . Notice too ...
... living under a genial sky in a land of extraordinary loveliness , unconquered even by the mighty hosts of Media , the Hellenic race in the age of Sophocles and Pheidias could give full scope to a free and imaginative spirit . Notice too ...
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Page 83 - I see before me the Gladiator lie; He leans upon his hand, — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow, From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 198 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Page 279 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 268 - He is made one with Nature. There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone ; Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 102 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 260 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
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Page 241 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
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