Introductions to the PoetsG. Routledge & sons, 1912 - 313 páginas |
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... human , with a broad genial humanity . Hence his chief skill was in the delineations of his char- acters ; these are imperishable because he paints the type rather than the individual , and W. Blake truly said of him : " Names alter ...
... human , with a broad genial humanity . Hence his chief skill was in the delineations of his char- acters ; these are imperishable because he paints the type rather than the individual , and W. Blake truly said of him : " Names alter ...
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... human knowledge and experience . Mil- ton himself seems strange and remote to us , not merely because he was born 300 years ago , but because he varied , far more than most great poets , from the kindly race of men . All his life he was ...
... human knowledge and experience . Mil- ton himself seems strange and remote to us , not merely because he was born 300 years ago , but because he varied , far more than most great poets , from the kindly race of men . All his life he was ...
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... humanity . " omits to notice his taste and skill in music , and he adds that " Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge , yet he could not bear to be considered himself merely as a ...
... humanity . " omits to notice his taste and skill in music , and he adds that " Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge , yet he could not bear to be considered himself merely as a ...
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... human nature . " The desire to be thought a gentleman to whom literature was an amusement rather than a profes- sion may account for the desultory manner of his composition , with its fits of passing inspiration severed by long periods ...
... human nature . " The desire to be thought a gentleman to whom literature was an amusement rather than a profes- sion may account for the desultory manner of his composition , with its fits of passing inspiration severed by long periods ...
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... human feeling , " to admit that " as an elegiac poet Gray holds for all ages to come his unassail- able and sovereign station . " Like all the plays of Shakespeare and like so much of Tennyson , the Elegy is " thickly studded with ...
... human feeling , " to admit that " as an elegiac poet Gray holds for all ages to come his unassail- able and sovereign station . " Like all the plays of Shakespeare and like so much of Tennyson , the Elegy is " thickly studded with ...
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Página 112 - Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet 1 — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains...
Página 180 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 231 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 295 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 183 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Página 230 - All we have willed, or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Página 180 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Página 82 - tis He alone , Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias: Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 189 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 182 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.