Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins, Band 2R. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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... poet ? Now Vivian Grey is just what one might expect from a boy - novelist who had saturated himself with Don Juan . The cynicism is mimicked , the false rhetoric is exagger- ated , the humour and epigram are weakly yet success-
... poet ? Now Vivian Grey is just what one might expect from a boy - novelist who had saturated himself with Don Juan . The cynicism is mimicked , the false rhetoric is exagger- ated , the humour and epigram are weakly yet success-
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... poet become curiously trans- muted as they pass into the prose of the fashionable novelist . This is noticeable in Venetia , which was pub- lished in 1837. In its dedication to Lord Lyndhurst , the author states that it was his design ...
... poet become curiously trans- muted as they pass into the prose of the fashionable novelist . This is noticeable in Venetia , which was pub- lished in 1837. In its dedication to Lord Lyndhurst , the author states that it was his design ...
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... poet ; and the worst of it is , they think they can . As we have said , Mr. Disraeli was more fortunate in his supposititious Byron , since he has something in common with this stronger and coarser poet . Byron and Shelley were the ...
... poet ; and the worst of it is , they think they can . As we have said , Mr. Disraeli was more fortunate in his supposititious Byron , since he has something in common with this stronger and coarser poet . Byron and Shelley were the ...
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... poet's inalienable po form him into a hazy prosy retail was not in any degree the char : Queen Mab and the Prometheus T the errors that clung to his wild was always youthful in his aspira above the region of materialism . The ...
... poet's inalienable po form him into a hazy prosy retail was not in any degree the char : Queen Mab and the Prometheus T the errors that clung to his wild was always youthful in his aspira above the region of materialism . The ...
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... poetic character . " A noble ambition ! Goethe and Alfieri have done something towards the theme , but in Disraeli's opinion there is no " ideal and complete picture . " He decided , for excellent reasons , that " the autobiographical ...
... poetic character . " A noble ambition ! Goethe and Alfieri have done something towards the theme , but in Disraeli's opinion there is no " ideal and complete picture . " He decided , for excellent reasons , that " the autobiographical ...
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Seite 192 - And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Seite 65 - Thames! run softly, till I end my song. Then forth they all out of their baskets drew Great store of flowers, the honour of the field, That to the sense did fragrant odours yield, All which upon those goodly birds they threw And all the waves did strew, That like old Peneus...
Seite 91 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Seite 101 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 182 - What? - it will be questioned — when the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a guinea? О no, no, I see an innumerable company of the Heavenly Host crying: Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty...
Seite 144 - She sketch'd; the vale, the wood, the beach, Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading: She botanized; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading; She warbled Handel; it was grand; She made the Catalani jealous: She touch'd the organ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows.
Seite 160 - And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn Look forward with hope for to-morrow With a porch at my door, both for shelter and shade too, As the sun-shine or rain may prevail ; And a small spot of ground for the use of the spade too, With a barn for the use of the flail...
Seite 193 - but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers and more than common sweetness in the air ; I heard a low and pleasant sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral.
Seite 112 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Seite 182 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat "like a Guinea?" O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.