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Page xxxviii
... sure , the high air of this poetry is fresh and buoyant , and its full cadences have in them a large echo as of mountain winds and waters . And if Webster , with the generous justice proper to a great fellow - craftsman in the highest ...
... sure , the high air of this poetry is fresh and buoyant , and its full cadences have in them a large echo as of mountain winds and waters . And if Webster , with the generous justice proper to a great fellow - craftsman in the highest ...
Page lxi
... But by this light the two elder poets too often failed to walk straight and sure , drank too often from this fountain a heady or a narcotic draught . VOL . II One at least , and not he who had drunk POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . lxi.
... But by this light the two elder poets too often failed to walk straight and sure , drank too often from this fountain a heady or a narcotic draught . VOL . II One at least , and not he who had drunk POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . lxi.
Page lxvi
... sure that in any age or country the men that compose it must have been what they were , great as poets or artists , lyric or dramatic ; of the second order we may well believe that in a different time or place the names which we find ...
... sure that in any age or country the men that compose it must have been what they were , great as poets or artists , lyric or dramatic ; of the second order we may well believe that in a different time or place the names which we find ...
Page lxix
... sure 67 . Fierce lightning from her eyes . 68. Begin where lightness will , in shame it ends 108. Good gifts are often given to men past good 110. Kind Amalthea was transformed by Jove 120. Good deeds in case that they be evil placed ...
... sure 67 . Fierce lightning from her eyes . 68. Begin where lightness will , in shame it ends 108. Good gifts are often given to men past good 110. Kind Amalthea was transformed by Jove 120. Good deeds in case that they be evil placed ...
Page lxxiv
... sure , are blessed most . Yet we with rhyme and reason trim the times , Though they give little reason for our rhymes . The reason is , else error blinds my wits , They reason want to do what honour fits , But let them do as please them ...
... sure , are blessed most . Yet we with rhyme and reason trim the times , Though they give little reason for our rhymes . The reason is , else error blinds my wits , They reason want to do what honour fits , But let them do as please them ...
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Page 57 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by Fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice. What we behold is censured by our eyes.