The American Whig Review, Volúmenes13-14G. H. Colton, 1851 |
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... poem . How luxu- riantly would one of our modern poets have dwelt on its details . " These elaborate en- croachments upon the province of the painter create confusion , and confusion only , in the imagination . The painter or the ...
... poem . How luxu- riantly would one of our modern poets have dwelt on its details . " These elaborate en- croachments upon the province of the painter create confusion , and confusion only , in the imagination . The painter or the ...
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... poem full of exquisite de- the jailor , who became , after a while , more scription , and scenery so perfectly Italian , civil through the mysterious influence of a it seems to glow as if warmed beneath Greek Pindar which he saw among ...
... poem full of exquisite de- the jailor , who became , after a while , more scription , and scenery so perfectly Italian , civil through the mysterious influence of a it seems to glow as if warmed beneath Greek Pindar which he saw among ...
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PUNY POETS AND PIRATICAL PUBLISHERS . * THIS book is certainly a literary curi- | ridiculous - indeed , dishonorable ... poems emanating from cendency of that herd of venal pretenders their cherished model , and whose life and to ...
PUNY POETS AND PIRATICAL PUBLISHERS . * THIS book is certainly a literary curi- | ridiculous - indeed , dishonorable ... poems emanating from cendency of that herd of venal pretenders their cherished model , and whose life and to ...
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... poem of ". It is not difficult to perceive the drift and intent of these prefatory discursive remarks . We mean to be ... poets , essayists , and historians , than with those of the United States . Where Put- nam or Hart publishes one ...
... poem of ". It is not difficult to perceive the drift and intent of these prefatory discursive remarks . We mean to be ... poets , essayists , and historians , than with those of the United States . Where Put- nam or Hart publishes one ...
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... Poems " of our author are mainly indebted to this species of collusive heraldry for their singular notoriety . And to ... poem of the series . We cite , as an instance of this striking want of true taste in the choice of expres- A few ...
... Poems " of our author are mainly indebted to this species of collusive heraldry for their singular notoriety . And to ... poem of the series . We cite , as an instance of this striking want of true taste in the choice of expres- A few ...
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Página 415 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Página 382 - Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Página 354 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 331 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck.
Página 416 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 354 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Página 383 - Which first assured the forced power ; So when they did design The Capitol's first line, A bleeding head, where they begun, Did fright the architects to run ; And yet in that the state Foresaw its happy fate. And now the Irish are ashamed To see themselves in one year tamed ; So much one man can do, That does best act and know.
Página 333 - The Slave's Dream Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land.
Página 416 - Souls of lonely places ! can I think A vulgar hope was yours when ye employed Such ministry, when ye through many a year Haunting me thus among my boyish sports, On caves and trees, upon the woods and hills, Impressed upon all forms the characters Of danger or desire; and thus did make The surface of the universal earth With triumph and delight, with hope and fear, Work like a sea?
Página 417 - I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still ; O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart ; O'er all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, Or beats the gladsome air ; o'er all that glides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters.