Essays on the Poets: And Other English WritersTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - 296 sider |
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Side 39
... Shelley , it is difficult for a conscientious critic to speak with the truth and the respect due to his exalted powers ... Shelley's , the indignation is likely to be co- extensive and co - enduring with the writings that pro- voked it ...
... Shelley , it is difficult for a conscientious critic to speak with the truth and the respect due to his exalted powers ... Shelley's , the indignation is likely to be co- extensive and co - enduring with the writings that pro- voked it ...
Side 41
... Shelley's was worse ; more bitter , and with less of countenance , even in show or shadow , from any fact , or ... SHELLEY . 41.
... Shelley's was worse ; more bitter , and with less of countenance , even in show or shadow , from any fact , or ... SHELLEY . 41.
Side 44
... Shelley's imagination , not to be dispossessed more than the phantom of Banquo from the festival of Mac- beth , and composed a towering Babylon of mystery that , to his belief , could not have flourished , under any umbrage less vast ...
... Shelley's imagination , not to be dispossessed more than the phantom of Banquo from the festival of Mac- beth , and composed a towering Babylon of mystery that , to his belief , could not have flourished , under any umbrage less vast ...
Side 45
... Shelley upon the subject of Christianity . Shelley's total nature was altered and darkened when that theme arose : transfiguration fell upon him . He that was so gentle , became savage ; he that breathed by the very lungs of ...
... Shelley upon the subject of Christianity . Shelley's total nature was altered and darkened when that theme arose : transfiguration fell upon him . He that was so gentle , became savage ; he that breathed by the very lungs of ...
Side 47
... Shelley's posi- tion in society , but on the kindest motives of forbear- ance towards one so young , the heads decided for 6 declining all notice of the pamphlet . Levelled at them PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . 47.
... Shelley's posi- tion in society , but on the kindest motives of forbear- ance towards one so young , the heads decided for 6 declining all notice of the pamphlet . Levelled at them PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . 47.
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Side 180 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Side 53 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
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Side 42 - O almighty one, I tremble and obey ! " O Spirit ! centuries have set their seal On this heart of many wounds, and loaded brain, Since the Incarnate came : humbly he came, Veiling his horrible Godhead in the shape Of man, scorned by the world, his name unheard, Save by the rabble of his native town, Even as a parish demagogue.
Side 53 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.
Side 151 - ... own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where every pulse and each separate influx is a step upwards, a step ascending as upon a Jacob's ladder from earth to mysterious altitudes above the earth. All the steps of knowledge, from first to last, carry you further on the same plane, but could never raise you one foot above your ancient level of earth; whereas the very first step in power is a flight, is an ascending movement into another element where earth is forgotten.
Side 151 - ... highest in man : for the Scriptures themselves never condescended to deal by suggestion or co-operation, with the mere discursive understanding : when speaking of man in his intellectual capacity, the Scriptures speak not of the understanding, but of