Essays on the Poets: And Other English WritersTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - 296 sider |
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... whose fulness of 6 1 See the exquisite poems , so little understood by the commonplace reader , of The Two April Mornings , and The Fountain . life could not brook the gloomy faith in a grave 10 ON WORDSWORTH'S POEtry .
... whose fulness of 6 1 See the exquisite poems , so little understood by the commonplace reader , of The Two April Mornings , and The Fountain . life could not brook the gloomy faith in a grave 10 ON WORDSWORTH'S POEtry .
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And Other English Writers Thomas De Quincey. life could not brook the gloomy faith in a grave , is yet ( for the effect upon the reader ) brought into con- nection with the reflex shadows of the grave : and if she herself has not , the ...
And Other English Writers Thomas De Quincey. life could not brook the gloomy faith in a grave , is yet ( for the effect upon the reader ) brought into con- nection with the reflex shadows of the grave : and if she herself has not , the ...
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... restored to the benignities of faith and hope by argument ? It was not in this way that he lost his station amongst Christian believers . No false philosophy it had been which wrecked his Christian spirit of 20 ON WORDSWORTH'S POETRY .
... restored to the benignities of faith and hope by argument ? It was not in this way that he lost his station amongst Christian believers . No false philosophy it had been which wrecked his Christian spirit of 20 ON WORDSWORTH'S POETRY .
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... faith and " worship of sorrow ; " and the touching specta- tacle had been renewed , of the demoniac sitting , “ clothed , and in his right mind , " at the feet of Jesus . ' I am not of that opinion : and it is an opinion which seems to ...
... faith and " worship of sorrow ; " and the touching specta- tacle had been renewed , of the demoniac sitting , “ clothed , and in his right mind , " at the feet of Jesus . ' I am not of that opinion : and it is an opinion which seems to ...
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... suffered , power given him to for- get the misery which he caused , and leaning with his heart upon that dove - like faith against which his erring intellect had rebelled . NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 40 . ' TRANSACT : PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . 67.
... suffered , power given him to for- get the misery which he caused , and leaning with his heart upon that dove - like faith against which his erring intellect had rebelled . NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 40 . ' TRANSACT : PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . 67.
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Side 175 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Side 34 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...
Side 62 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
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