The Atlantic Monthly, Volumen53Atlantic Monthly Company, 1884 |
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... speak of the pleasure a poet must have in writ- ing such verse as that . It must sing to him as sweetly as to any one else , and more freshly . " " Yes , " said Ann . " I have seen somewhere that everybody who writes verse thinks his ...
... speak of the pleasure a poet must have in writ- ing such verse as that . It must sing to him as sweetly as to any one else , and more freshly . " " Yes , " said Ann . " I have seen somewhere that everybody who writes verse thinks his ...
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... speak of them . Whether it is that the sidewalk goes up - stairs , or the front second - story bed - room comes down into the street ; whether the street itself be in the basement or the cellar , or the sidewalk be on the roofs of the ...
... speak of them . Whether it is that the sidewalk goes up - stairs , or the front second - story bed - room comes down into the street ; whether the street itself be in the basement or the cellar , or the sidewalk be on the roofs of the ...
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... speak . He began very early to foretell events , and with an apparent- ly preternatural accuracy . When he was a lad , he was seen , one day , to abuse an ox belonging to his brother . To a person threatening to inform his brother of ...
... speak . He began very early to foretell events , and with an apparent- ly preternatural accuracy . When he was a lad , he was seen , one day , to abuse an ox belonging to his brother . To a person threatening to inform his brother of ...
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... speak . He turned to Mrs. Demming , who was looking from one to another of the group , in a scared way . " Were you in a swoon ? " he asked . " Oh , laws ! " cried the poor woman . " Oh , Demming , what hev you gwine an ' done now ...
... speak . He turned to Mrs. Demming , who was looking from one to another of the group , in a scared way . " Were you in a swoon ? " he asked . " Oh , laws ! " cried the poor woman . " Oh , Demming , what hev you gwine an ' done now ...
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... speak to him ; he ' s powerful anx- ious to see you . " Silently Louise rose and followed the mulatto . They had carried Demming to the hotel : it was the nearest place , and the Bishop wished it . His wife had been sent for , and was ...
... speak to him ; he ' s powerful anx- ious to see you . " Silently Louise rose and followed the mulatto . They had carried Demming to the hotel : it was the nearest place , and the Bishop wished it . His wife had been sent for , and was ...
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Página 427 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Página 98 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Página 424 - This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and supremely careless — I long after a stanza or two of Thomson's Castle of Indolence — my passions are all asleep, from my having slumbered till nearly eleven, and weakened the animal fibre all over me, to a delightful sensation, about three degrees on this side of faintness. If I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor, but as I am* I must call it laziness.
Página 429 - The little dramatic skill I may as yet have, however badly it might show in a drama, would, I think, be sufficient for a poem. I wish to diffuse the colouring of St. Agnes' Eve throughout a poem in which character and sentiment would be the figures to such drapery.
Página 201 - If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will!
Página 646 - That general life, which does not cease, Whose secret is not joy, but peace; That life, whose dumb wish is not miss'd If birth proceeds, if things subsist; The life of plants, and stones, and rain, The life he craves — if not in vain Fate gave, what chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Página 239 - Through God we shall do valiantly : for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Página 648 - Flow'd with the stream ; — all down his cold white side The crimson torrent ran, dim now and soil'd, Like the soil'd tissue of white violets Left, freshly...
Página 646 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Página 427 - This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.