Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writing, Volume 3W. & R. Chambers, 1903 - Authors, English |
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... human brain which , by first stirring , lifting , and vitalising other potential and latent faculties , gave birth to man ? Would it be rash to assume that this lever - power was a vigorous movement of the faculty of wonder ? But ...
... human brain which , by first stirring , lifting , and vitalising other potential and latent faculties , gave birth to man ? Would it be rash to assume that this lever - power was a vigorous movement of the faculty of wonder ? But ...
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... humanity and intense pathos as are expressed in such a stanza as this from ' Clerk Saunders , ' where Saunders's ... human drama and external nature are woven which is the very soul of poetic wonder . So great is the maleficent power ...
... humanity and intense pathos as are expressed in such a stanza as this from ' Clerk Saunders , ' where Saunders's ... human drama and external nature are woven which is the very soul of poetic wonder . So great is the maleficent power ...
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... human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspen- sion of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith . Mr Wordsworth , on the other hand , was to propose to ...
... human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspen- sion of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith . Mr Wordsworth , on the other hand , was to propose to ...
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... humanity . Beyond them poetry can hardly go without turning into something else than poetry . And it is not certain ... human goodness and nobility in them : For busy thoughts the stream flowed on In foamy agitation , And slept in many ...
... humanity . Beyond them poetry can hardly go without turning into something else than poetry . And it is not certain ... human goodness and nobility in them : For busy thoughts the stream flowed on In foamy agitation , And slept in many ...
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... human blood Almost suspended , we are laid asleep In body , and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet ... humanity , Nor harsh nor grating , though of ample power To chasten and subdue . And I have felt A presence that ...
... human blood Almost suspended , we are laid asleep In body , and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet ... humanity , Nor harsh nor grating , though of ample power To chasten and subdue . And I have felt A presence that ...
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Page 428 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 25 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 105 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Page 139 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 145 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 104 - O for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora...
Page 116 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 67 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 104 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 17 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.