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... perhaps a feminine quality , or at least implies in a man a texture of senses and mind too fine to resist the impact of life . Thus , at all events , it was with Coleridge . The ' damaged archangel ' of Lamb's profoundly pene- trating ...
... perhaps a feminine quality , or at least implies in a man a texture of senses and mind too fine to resist the impact of life . Thus , at all events , it was with Coleridge . The ' damaged archangel ' of Lamb's profoundly pene- trating ...
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... perhaps , therefore , a little ungracious to emphasize . It was natural , one may even say it was inevitable , to exaggerate where the task was that of breaking down an inveterate tradi- tion . But that very exaggeration helped to ...
... perhaps , therefore , a little ungracious to emphasize . It was natural , one may even say it was inevitable , to exaggerate where the task was that of breaking down an inveterate tradi- tion . But that very exaggeration helped to ...
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... perhaps , exclusively a poet , a poet most exquisite in his kind , though the kind must needs be of inferior worth ; I say , may be ; for I cannot recollect any one instance in which I have a right to suppose it . But , surely , to have ...
... perhaps , exclusively a poet , a poet most exquisite in his kind , though the kind must needs be of inferior worth ; I say , may be ; for I cannot recollect any one instance in which I have a right to suppose it . But , surely , to have ...
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... perhaps , by the insertion of a single line or half a line , out of poems which are now utterly disregarded on account of some odd or incongruous passages in them ; -just as whole volumes of Wordsworth's poems were formerly neglected or ...
... perhaps , by the insertion of a single line or half a line , out of poems which are now utterly disregarded on account of some odd or incongruous passages in them ; -just as whole volumes of Wordsworth's poems were formerly neglected or ...
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... as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages . A good lecture upon style might be composed , by taking , on the one hand , the slang of L'Estrange , and perhaps even of Roger North , which became so 6 POETRY.
... as attempt to remove a word out of any of their finished passages . A good lecture upon style might be composed , by taking , on the one hand , the slang of L'Estrange , and perhaps even of Roger North , which became so 6 POETRY.
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Page 33 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that...
Page iv - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 154 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did I wonder at the lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Page 218 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page iv - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
Page 70 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 159 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 83 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 100 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 153 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.