The Irish Quarterly Review, Volumen6W.B. Kelly., 1856 |
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... poets , there was still sufficient evi- dence therein of rational reflection , comprehensive power , and exalted beauty , to warrant us in concluding that their poetry adequately reflected the spirit of the age . Locksley Hall , The ...
... poets , there was still sufficient evi- dence therein of rational reflection , comprehensive power , and exalted beauty , to warrant us in concluding that their poetry adequately reflected the spirit of the age . Locksley Hall , The ...
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... poet . If the love of mystification , and inane scribbling , confined itself to any one of our distinguished poets , the consequences would not be so injurious ; but , unfortunately , all those whom we were wont to point to , as the ...
... poet . If the love of mystification , and inane scribbling , confined itself to any one of our distinguished poets , the consequences would not be so injurious ; but , unfortunately , all those whom we were wont to point to , as the ...
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... poets from achieving greatness . They use the most harsh and discordant metres , they select subjects whose uninteresting nature it is impossible to surpass , they garnish them with sprigs of infidelity , and impertinent assumptions ...
... poets from achieving greatness . They use the most harsh and discordant metres , they select subjects whose uninteresting nature it is impossible to surpass , they garnish them with sprigs of infidelity , and impertinent assumptions ...
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... Poet to unfold still more widely the workings of that magnanimous heart , many of whose sublime emotions have been made familiar to us by the delightful Author of The Prairie , The Spy , The Last of the Mohicans , The Deer Slayer , and ...
... Poet to unfold still more widely the workings of that magnanimous heart , many of whose sublime emotions have been made familiar to us by the delightful Author of The Prairie , The Spy , The Last of the Mohicans , The Deer Slayer , and ...
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... Poet , ( in a lucid interval ) , beauti- fully and truthfully tells us . " As unto the bow the cord is , So unto the man is woman , Though she bends him , she obeys him , Though she draws him , yet she follows , Useless each without the ...
... Poet , ( in a lucid interval ) , beauti- fully and truthfully tells us . " As unto the bow the cord is , So unto the man is woman , Though she bends him , she obeys him , Though she draws him , yet she follows , Useless each without the ...
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Página 630 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject," is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants ; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this...
Página 333 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página 333 - And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head; And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But little he'll reck; if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 11 - Till at length a small green feather From the earth shot slowly upward. Then another and another. And before the summer ended Stood the maize in all its beauty, With its shining robes about it, And its long, soft, yellow tresses; And in rapture Hiawatha Cried aloud, 'It is Mondamin! Yes, the friend of man, Mondamin!
Página 630 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, That I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the plain and Ordinary Sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any Evasion, Equivocation or Mental Reservation whatsoever...
Página 9 - But he heeded not, nor heard them, For his thoughts were with the red deer ; On their tracks his eyes were fastened, Leading downward to the river, To the ford across the river, And as one in slumber walked he.
Página 28 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Página 13 - With his mittens and his snowshoes Vainly walked he through the forest. Sought for bird or beast and found none, Saw no track of deer or rabbit, In the snow beheld no footprints, In the ghastly, gleaming forest Fell, and could not rise from weakness, Perished there from cold and hunger.
Página 630 - Him or Them : And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my Power, the Succession of the Crown, which Succession, by an Act, intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Página 104 - Indeed, no two species of writing can differ more widely than the comic and the burlesque; for as the latter is ever the exhibition of what is monstrous and unnatural...