PoemsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 248 Seiten |
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Seite vi
... interesting , if consistently drawn . We all naturally take pleasure , says Aristotle , in any imitation or re ... interesting , inasmuch as it gratifies this natural interest in knowledge of all kinds . What is not interesting , is that ...
... interesting , if consistently drawn . We all naturally take pleasure , says Aristotle , in any imitation or re ... interesting , inasmuch as it gratifies this natural interest in knowledge of all kinds . What is not interesting , is that ...
Seite vii
... interesting ; but , if the representation be a poetical one , more than this is demanded . It is demanded , not only that it shall interest , but also that it shall inspirit and rejoice the reader : that it shall convey a charm , and ...
... interesting ; but , if the representation be a poetical one , more than this is demanded . It is demanded , not only that it shall interest , but also that it shall inspirit and rejoice the reader : that it shall convey a charm , and ...
Seite x
... interesting manner by the art of the Poet . Vainly will the latter imagine that he has everything in his own power ... interesting ; and interesting solely in proportion to its greatness and to its pas- X PREFACE .
... interesting manner by the art of the Poet . Vainly will the latter imagine that he has everything in his own power ... interesting ; and interesting solely in proportion to its greatness and to its pas- X PREFACE .
Seite xi
... interesting to it than a smaller human action of to - day , even though upon the represent- ation of this last the most consummate skill may have been expended , and though it has the advantage of appealing by its modern language ...
... interesting to it than a smaller human action of to - day , even though upon the represent- ation of this last the most consummate skill may have been expended , and though it has the advantage of appealing by its modern language ...
Seite xii
... interesting in themselves , but that they are not to be adopted by the modern Poet , because it is impossible for him to have them clearly present to his own mind , and he cannot therefore feel them deeply , nor repre- sent them ...
... interesting in themselves , but that they are not to be adopted by the modern Poet , because it is impossible for him to have them clearly present to his own mind , and he cannot therefore feel them deeply , nor repre- sent them ...
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Seite 161 - THE FORSAKEN MERMAN Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away! This way, this way! Call her once before you go — Call once yet! In a voice that she will know: "Margaret! Margaret!
Seite 220 - OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Seite 166 - For the priest, and the bell, and the holy well— For the wheel where I spun, And the blessed light of the sun!
Seite 211 - For early didst thou leave the world, with powers Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Firm to their mark, not spent on other things; Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings.
Seite 230 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.
Seite 168 - On the blanched sands a gloom ; Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright sea-weed The ebb-tide leaves dry.
Seite 215 - And snatch'd his rudder, and shook out more sail, And day and night held on indignantly O'er the blue Midland waters with the gale...
Seite x - Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time.
Seite 47 - Flow'd with the stream ; — all down his cold white side The crimson torrent ran, dim now and soil'd...
Seite 38 - And he desired to draw forth the steel, And let the blood flow free, and so to die — But first he would convince his stubborn foe ; And, rising sternly on one arm, he said : — * Man, who art thou who dost deny my words ? Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.