Lectures on the British Poets, Band 1J.F. Shaw, 1857 - 408 Seiten |
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... followed by a tempestuous life , in which one storm of disappoint- ment after another burst upon his devoted head . As a patriot , a Chris- tian , a husband , and perhaps as a father , his best hopes were frustrated . In the arena of ...
... followed by a tempestuous life , in which one storm of disappoint- ment after another burst upon his devoted head . As a patriot , a Chris- tian , a husband , and perhaps as a father , his best hopes were frustrated . In the arena of ...
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... followed was also distinguished for its national importance in a political point of view . It may perhaps impress the consideration to allude to these in anticipation . After the age of Edward III . , the next great literary era was the ...
... followed was also distinguished for its national importance in a political point of view . It may perhaps impress the consideration to allude to these in anticipation . After the age of Edward III . , the next great literary era was the ...
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... the Middle Ages , he followed the guidance of his own inspirations and found nature . When we find him portraying his countrymen such as he saw them in the QUALITY OF CHAUCER'S POETRY . 53 streets of London , 52 . LECTURE THIRD .
... the Middle Ages , he followed the guidance of his own inspirations and found nature . When we find him portraying his countrymen such as he saw them in the QUALITY OF CHAUCER'S POETRY . 53 streets of London , 52 . LECTURE THIRD .
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... followed by the light of day . The genius of the first of our English poets shone , indeed , like the last of the starry host newly risen above the outline of some dark mountain , but not , like it , to mingle its beams with the light ...
... followed by the light of day . The genius of the first of our English poets shone , indeed , like the last of the starry host newly risen above the outline of some dark mountain , but not , like it , to mingle its beams with the light ...
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... followed the Reformation , we find that in philosophy the grand achievement of that age was the purifying the method of investigation , the gaining a deeper insight into the laws of thought . . . . . On the other hand , what ...
... followed the Reformation , we find that in philosophy the grand achievement of that age was the purifying the method of investigation , the gaining a deeper insight into the laws of thought . . . . . On the other hand , what ...
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Seite 373 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Seite 163 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Seite 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 108 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Seite 368 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Seite 332 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 25 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Seite 406 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Seite 288 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Seite 276 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.