Critical and Miscellaneous WritingsCarey and Hart, 1848 - 176 pages |
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... breathing world . " We travel on the high struse pleas against her adversary virtue , road of humanity , yet meet in it pleasanter which Sedley , Villiers , and Rochester wanted companions , and catch more delicious snatches depth of ...
... breathing world . " We travel on the high struse pleas against her adversary virtue , road of humanity , yet meet in it pleasanter which Sedley , Villiers , and Rochester wanted companions , and catch more delicious snatches depth of ...
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... breathe only in an en- millions on paper , and to make them willing chanted region , where lover's lutes tremble to scatter them among the wretched ; but it is over placid waters , mouldering castles rise the corresponding bounty and ...
... breathe only in an en- millions on paper , and to make them willing chanted region , where lover's lutes tremble to scatter them among the wretched ; but it is over placid waters , mouldering castles rise the corresponding bounty and ...
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... breathing world . - Wordsworth . [ NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE . ] WE esteem the productions which the great | the spirit of gladness . There is little of a medi novelist of Scotland has poured forth with tative or retrospective cast in his ...
... breathing world . - Wordsworth . [ NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE . ] WE esteem the productions which the great | the spirit of gladness . There is little of a medi novelist of Scotland has poured forth with tative or retrospective cast in his ...
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... breathe the mountain air , or drink in the freshness of the valleys . We perceive the change in the landscape at every step of the delightful journey through which he guides us . Our recollection never confounds any one scene with ...
... breathe the mountain air , or drink in the freshness of the valleys . We perceive the change in the landscape at every step of the delightful journey through which he guides us . Our recollection never confounds any one scene with ...
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... breathing eloquence , may fabricate as the ⚫idle busi- ness " of his life , as the means of profit or of fame . They have more in them of acts than of writings . They are the living and the im- mortal deeds of a man who must have been ...
... breathing eloquence , may fabricate as the ⚫idle busi- ness " of his life , as the means of profit or of fame . They have more in them of acts than of writings . They are the living and the im- mortal deeds of a man who must have been ...
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Page 52 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 50 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this *Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Page 51 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 52 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 51 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions, not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 50 - 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.
Page 150 - Of depth immeasurable: anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 53 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness; for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart...
Page 74 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Page 54 - There shall endure, — existence unexposed To the blind walk of mortal accident ; From diminution safe and weakening age ; While man grows old, and dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of mankind Depart; and leave no vestige where they trod.