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... true response ; it is the assurance of equipoise in the universe . These , if not true crit- ics , come nearer the standard than the subjective class , and the value of their work is ideal as well as historical . Then there are the ...
... true response ; it is the assurance of equipoise in the universe . These , if not true crit- ics , come nearer the standard than the subjective class , and the value of their work is ideal as well as historical . Then there are the ...
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... true uses . But how ? It were easy to say what they should not do . They should not have an object to carry or a cause to advocate , which obliges them either to reject all writings which wear the distinctive traits of individual life ...
... true uses . But how ? It were easy to say what they should not do . They should not have an object to carry or a cause to advocate , which obliges them either to reject all writings which wear the distinctive traits of individual life ...
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... true to one human breast , and uttered in full faith , that the God of Truth will guide them . aright . And here , it seems to me , has been the greatest mistake in the conduct of these journals . A smooth monotony has been at- tained ...
... true to one human breast , and uttered in full faith , that the God of Truth will guide them . aright . And here , it seems to me , has been the greatest mistake in the conduct of these journals . A smooth monotony has been at- tained ...
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... True communion of thought is worship , not criticism . Spirit will not flow through the sluices nor endure the locks of canals . CRITIC . There is perpetual need of protestantism in every church . If the church be catholic , yet the ...
... True communion of thought is worship , not criticism . Spirit will not flow through the sluices nor endure the locks of canals . CRITIC . There is perpetual need of protestantism in every church . If the church be catholic , yet the ...
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... true ; neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein , since I did not only clearly hear the noise , but in the serenest sky that ever I saw , being without all cloud , did , to my thinking , see the place from whence it came ...
... true ; neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein , since I did not only clearly hear the noise , but in the serenest sky that ever I saw , being without all cloud , did , to my thinking , see the place from whence it came ...
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Page 71 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 70 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning « Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Page 72 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
Page 37 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 88 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are!
Page 40 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace— all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
Page 87 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Page 20 - Angel's age. God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth ; Engine against th...
Page 75 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 74 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.