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... critic , Harriet Martineau , that " the merits of his dis- courses were so great that he might probably have gone on year after year till this time with improving success and perhaps ease , but the struggle was too severe , ” i.e. , the ...
... critic , Harriet Martineau , that " the merits of his dis- courses were so great that he might probably have gone on year after year till this time with improving success and perhaps ease , but the struggle was too severe , ” i.e. , the ...
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... critics wrote books to teach you how to hold your arm and your leg , in the middle of all this absurd and wicked period Tacitus was born , and was enabled to be a Roman after all . He stood like a Colossus at the edge of a dark night ...
... critics wrote books to teach you how to hold your arm and your leg , in the middle of all this absurd and wicked period Tacitus was born , and was enabled to be a Roman after all . He stood like a Colossus at the edge of a dark night ...
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... Philosophical View of Reform " ends . It could close with no more sacred thought or word than that of reconciliation- " word over all , beautiful as the sky . " LAST WORDS ON SHELLEY . SOME critics of my " 74 Transcripts and Studies .
... Philosophical View of Reform " ends . It could close with no more sacred thought or word than that of reconciliation- " word over all , beautiful as the sky . " LAST WORDS ON SHELLEY . SOME critics of my " 74 Transcripts and Studies .
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Edward Dowden. LAST WORDS ON SHELLEY . SOME critics of my " Life of Shelley , " the reviewers , if I remember rightly , in The Times , the Athenĉum , and the Quarterly Review , noticed with some surprise or regret the fact that I nowhere ...
Edward Dowden. LAST WORDS ON SHELLEY . SOME critics of my " Life of Shelley , " the reviewers , if I remember rightly , in The Times , the Athenĉum , and the Quarterly Review , noticed with some surprise or regret the fact that I nowhere ...
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... critics of my " Life of Shelley " seem to consider that I did not pro- nounce a moral judgment on this passage of Shelley's story with sufficient firmness . But a biographer's first duty is to trace the history of a human being as far ...
... critics of my " Life of Shelley " seem to consider that I did not pro- nounce a moral judgment on this passage of Shelley's story with sufficient firmness . But a biographer's first duty is to trace the history of a human being as far ...
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Page 419 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 203 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 356 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 453 - From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Page 115 - I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity : the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of re-action, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
Page 202 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Page 259 - Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may be very dissimilar.
Page 141 - No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Page 156 - IF thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet ! in thy place, and be content : — The stars pre-eminent in magnitude, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness) Are yet of no diviner origin, No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire on the ridge...
Page 151 - Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.