54. Greece, as it impressed the mind of the Poet in 1810. SOLEMNITY OF EXPRESSION: 'Plaintive manner, Admiration and Regret, Dread and 9 7 8 Pity, • Horror, "Eager Hope, relaxes into Calm Regret; Narrative manner, assumes an expression of Dread, which relaxes into 10 Pity, with the addition of much "Solemnity as the description draws to a conclusion, 1 He who hath bent him o'er the dead The last of danger and distress,) Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, The rapture of repose that's there, + That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, Appals the gazing mourner's heart, The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon- Some moments-aye-one treacherous hour, "We still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed. 3 9 Such is the aspect of that shore: 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more; So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start ;-for soul is wanting there. ΤΟ 10 Hers is the loveliness in death Which parts not quite with parting breath; That hue which "haunts it to the tomb; A gilded halo hovering round decay, Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished earth. LORD BYRON. 55. Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth the Imagination. MEDITATIVE MANNER: 2 3 4 'Delight mingled with Awe, Scorn, Delight and Awe, Narrative manner, assuming Solemnity of expression, which relaxes toward the Plaintive manner, Delight. 1. 6 Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, M 1 Of childhood, didst thou intertwine for me 6 *Nor was this fellowship vouchsafed to me WORDSWORTH. 56. Pleasures of Hope. MEDITATIVE MANNER: 5 6 3 1 Delight, ⚫Narrative manner; rises again into Delight; Argumentative manner; relaxes into Pity, Delight, Awe mingling with, and qualifying the expression of Delight, with an occasional expression of "Triumph. At summer's eve, when Heaven's aërial bow Spans, with bright arch, the glittering hills be low, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, 5 From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. 4 * What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity? Can Wisdom lend, with all her boasted power, The pledge of joy's anticipated hour; Ah no! she darkly sees the fate of man, "With thee, sweet Hope, resides the heavenly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight: 'Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of time, 8 Thy joyous youth began-but not to fade. When all the sister planets have decayed; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below; "Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile, And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. CAMPBELL. 57. Pleasures of Memory. MEDITATIVE Manner: 2 4 'Delight mingled with Regret, Delight predominates, Exultation, An expression of Force and Determination, with occasional Solemnity; returns to the expression of Force, Determination, and Triumph; Calm Delight. 6 8 7 1Sweetmemory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Blessed with far greener shades, far fresher bowers. When joy's bright sun has shed his evening ray, And hope's delusive meteors cease to play, When clouds on clouds the smiling prospect close, Still through the gloom thy star serenely glows; Like yon fair orb she gilds the brow of night With the mild magic of reflected light. * And who can tell the triumphs of the mind By truth illumined and by taste refined? |