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... imagination , to warm and enlighten the world . The greater poets , accord- ingly , have almost always been the warmest admirers , and the most liberal patrons of poetry . The smaller only your Laureates and Ballad - mongers - are en ...
... imagination , to warm and enlighten the world . The greater poets , accord- ingly , have almost always been the warmest admirers , and the most liberal patrons of poetry . The smaller only your Laureates and Ballad - mongers - are en ...
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... , by having thrown his angelic warfare into more remote perspective : But it seems to me to be most sublime when it is least distinctly brought home to the imagination . MILTON -HIS SUPERNATURAL CHARACTERS . 21 What an awful effect.
... , by having thrown his angelic warfare into more remote perspective : But it seems to me to be most sublime when it is least distinctly brought home to the imagination . MILTON -HIS SUPERNATURAL CHARACTERS . 21 What an awful effect.
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... imagination is taken by surprise . But the noblest efforts of language are tried with very unequal effect , to in- terest us in the immediate and close view of the battle itself in the sixth book ; and the martial demons , who charmed ...
... imagination is taken by surprise . But the noblest efforts of language are tried with very unequal effect , to in- terest us in the immediate and close view of the battle itself in the sixth book ; and the martial demons , who charmed ...
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... imagination . Athens herself , with all her simplicity and democracy , delighted on the stage to " Let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by . ' " Even situations far depressed beneath the familiar mediocrity of life , are ...
... imagination . Athens herself , with all her simplicity and democracy , delighted on the stage to " Let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by . ' " Even situations far depressed beneath the familiar mediocrity of life , are ...
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... imagination ; like him , he has the rich economy of expression haloed with thought , which by single or few words often hints entire pictures to the imagination . In what short and simple terms , for in- stance , does he open a wide and ...
... imagination ; like him , he has the rich economy of expression haloed with thought , which by single or few words often hints entire pictures to the imagination . In what short and simple terms , for in- stance , does he open a wide and ...
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Side 381 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Side 462 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, — But let us part fair foes ; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, — hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing ; I would also deem O'er others...
Side 453 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Side 464 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Side 73 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east...
Side 158 - His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun
Side 460 - This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring . Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night...
Side 80 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Side 193 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Side 139 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.