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... stand higher , than his poetry . There remain to be considered Byron and Wordsworth . That Wordsworth affords good material for a volume of selections , and that he gains by having his poetry thus presented , is an old belief of mine ...
... stand higher , than his poetry . There remain to be considered Byron and Wordsworth . That Wordsworth affords good material for a volume of selections , and that he gains by having his poetry thus presented , is an old belief of mine ...
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... stand , if we relieve him too , so far as we can , of the encumbrance of his inferior and weakest work , and if we bring before us his best and strongest work in one body together ? That is the question which I , who can even remember ...
... stand , if we relieve him too , so far as we can , of the encumbrance of his inferior and weakest work , and if we bring before us his best and strongest work in one body together ? That is the question which I , who can even remember ...
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... stand in respect to one another when that balance has been struck . Let us observe how this is so . We will take three poets , among the most consider- able of our century : Leopardi , Byron , Wordsworth . Giacomo Leopardi was ten years ...
... stand in respect to one another when that balance has been struck . Let us observe how this is so . We will take three poets , among the most consider- able of our century : Leopardi , Byron , Wordsworth . Giacomo Leopardi was ten years ...
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... stands higher for us than that of Leopardi's , as it stands higher for us , I think , than that of any modern poetry except Goethe's . Byron's poetic value is also greater , on the whole , than Leopardi's ; and his superiority turns ...
... stands higher for us than that of Leopardi's , as it stands higher for us , I think , than that of any modern poetry except Goethe's . Byron's poetic value is also greater , on the whole , than Leopardi's ; and his superiority turns ...
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... easily . But these two , Wordsworth and Byron , stand , it seems to me , first and pre - eminent in actual performance , a glorious pair , among the English poets of this century . Keats had probably , indeed XXX PREFACE .
... easily . But these two , Wordsworth and Byron , stand , it seems to me , first and pre - eminent in actual performance , a glorious pair , among the English poets of this century . Keats had probably , indeed XXX PREFACE .
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Adah Arqua art thou Astarte bear beautiful behold beneath blood blue breast breath BRIDE OF ABYDOS brow Byron Cain Canto CHAMOIS cheek CHILDE HAROLD clouds cold dare dark dead death deep DON JUAN dost dread dust dwell earth eyes F. T. PALGRAVE Farewell fear feel foam gaze gentle Giaour glory Goethe grave hand hath heard heart heaven heaving Hellespont hour immortal isle land light limbs live lone look look'd Lucifer MANFRED MATTHEW ARNOLD mortal mountains ne'er never night o'er PARISINA pass'd poet poetic poetry roll'd rose round Samian wine scarce seem'd shore SIEGE OF CORINTH sigh slave smile soul spirit Stanzas star steed stood sweet tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought throne tomb turn'd twas voice waters wave weep wild wind Wordsworth youth
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Page 65 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
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Page 125 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod ; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Page 92 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he...