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... idea , or when he revivifies old ones by the plastic and life - giving touch of his genius , the world is ready with something better than its applause -it reverences and it loves . It is not our intention here to magnify the Poet's ...
... idea , or when he revivifies old ones by the plastic and life - giving touch of his genius , the world is ready with something better than its applause -it reverences and it loves . It is not our intention here to magnify the Poet's ...
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... ideas . Sympathising , how- ever , to a certain extent with the position assumed by the distinguished American essayist , we must admit that what we want is not so much the laborious poet as the emotional . Tennyson is undoubtedly both ...
... ideas . Sympathising , how- ever , to a certain extent with the position assumed by the distinguished American essayist , we must admit that what we want is not so much the laborious poet as the emotional . Tennyson is undoubtedly both ...
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... idea recurs again and again in different forms through her works . She yearns for poetry to be sanctified , to be made holy . This is how it was with the grand old Greeks , and how it should be now . It is because poetry is losing its ...
... idea recurs again and again in different forms through her works . She yearns for poetry to be sanctified , to be made holy . This is how it was with the grand old Greeks , and how it should be now . It is because poetry is losing its ...
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... ideas , though the conception as a whole is asserted to be a failure . For ourselves we were struck with the poetic wealth which it displays , and failure as applied to it must be taken in the comparative form . There are those whom the ...
... ideas , though the conception as a whole is asserted to be a failure . For ourselves we were struck with the poetic wealth which it displays , and failure as applied to it must be taken in the comparative form . There are those whom the ...
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... ideas though the conception as a vicle is averted to be a failure . For one we ve muck with the poetic wealth which it displey : már as applied to thir be taken in the coming fru There are trove whom the majestic Mins or salfed by his ...
... ideas though the conception as a vicle is averted to be a failure . For one we ve muck with the poetic wealth which it displey : már as applied to thir be taken in the coming fru There are trove whom the majestic Mins or salfed by his ...
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Page 80 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life ! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 32 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 293 - HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires: As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires:— Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
Page 294 - Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Page 179 - If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Page 294 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 292 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 35 - The successors of Charles the fifth may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Page 297 - I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 82 - Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, "Sweat For foreheads," men say "crowns," and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel Which snaps with a secret spring. Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
References to this book
Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-67 Françoise Basch No preview available - 1974 |