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... rest satisfied until I had fulfilled , on Wordsworth's behalf , a long - cherished desire ; -had disengaged , to the best of my power , his good work from the inferior work joined with it , and had placed before the public the PREFACE . xi.
... rest satisfied until I had fulfilled , on Wordsworth's behalf , a long - cherished desire ; -had disengaged , to the best of my power , his good work from the inferior work joined with it , and had placed before the public the PREFACE . xi.
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... rest , and , in the main , greater . " Here , again , Professor Nichol translates : " They can show no ( living ) poet who is to be compared to him ; ” — inserting the word living , I sup- pose , to prevent its being thought that Goethe ...
... rest , and , in the main , greater . " Here , again , Professor Nichol translates : " They can show no ( living ) poet who is to be compared to him ; ” — inserting the word living , I sup- pose , to prevent its being thought that Goethe ...
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... rest of the English poets , he was not so much thinking of the strict rank , as poetry , of Byron's production ; he was thinking of that wonderful personality of Byron which so enters into his poetry , and which Goethe called " a ...
... rest of the English poets , he was not so much thinking of the strict rank , as poetry , of Byron's production ; he was thinking of that wonderful personality of Byron which so enters into his poetry , and which Goethe called " a ...
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... rest , and , in the main , greater . " Byron is , moreover , " the greatest talent of our century . " On the other hand , this splendid personality and unmatched talent , this unique Byron , " is quite too much in the dark about himself ...
... rest , and , in the main , greater . " Byron is , moreover , " the greatest talent of our century . " On the other hand , this splendid personality and unmatched talent , this unique Byron , " is quite too much in the dark about himself ...
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... rest of it , or such lumbering verse as Mr. Ruskin's enemy , " Parching summer hath no warrant , " would have been as impossible to Leopardi as to Dante . Where , then , is Wordsworth's superiority ? for the worth of what he has given ...
... rest of it , or such lumbering verse as Mr. Ruskin's enemy , " Parching summer hath no warrant , " would have been as impossible to Leopardi as to Dante . Where , then , is Wordsworth's superiority ? for the worth of what he has given ...
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Page 95 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
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.
Page 50 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 44 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.
Page 93 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page xxviii - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 94 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 104 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page xxiv - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 253 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!