Essays on the Poets: And Other English WritersTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - 296 sider |
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... spirit . Other poets , fa- vorites of Mr. Hazlitt , have never struck a solitary note from this Tyrtæan lyre ; and who blames them ? Surely , if every man finds his powers limited , every man would do well to respect this silent ...
... spirit . Other poets , fa- vorites of Mr. Hazlitt , have never struck a solitary note from this Tyrtæan lyre ; and who blames them ? Surely , if every man finds his powers limited , every man would do well to respect this silent ...
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... spirit of gaiety is pro- 1 Coleridge had a grievous infirmity of mind as regarded pain . He could not contemplate the shadows of fear , of sorrow , of suffering , with any steadiness of gaze . He was , in relation to that subject , what ...
... spirit of gaiety is pro- 1 Coleridge had a grievous infirmity of mind as regarded pain . He could not contemplate the shadows of fear , of sorrow , of suffering , with any steadiness of gaze . He was , in relation to that subject , what ...
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... spirit of the noon - day , Pan , seems to brood . Out of suffering is there evoked the image of peace . Out of the cruel leap , and the agonizing race through thirteen hours ; out of the anguish in the perishing brute , and the headlong ...
... spirit of the noon - day , Pan , seems to brood . Out of suffering is there evoked the image of peace . Out of the cruel leap , and the agonizing race through thirteen hours ; out of the anguish in the perishing brute , and the headlong ...
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... spirit of manliness , but also to stand the far sterner trial of witnessing the same privations in a wife and little childen . To evade this , to slip his neck out of the yoke , when God summons a poor man to such a trial , is the worst ...
... spirit of manliness , but also to stand the far sterner trial of witnessing the same privations in a wife and little childen . To evade this , to slip his neck out of the yoke , when God summons a poor man to such a trial , is the worst ...
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... 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 .
... 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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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