The North American Review, Volume 20Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1825 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... opinion or feeling . It was one general burst of delight and admiration from all classes of readers . Lord Byron's literary friends , whom he consulted about the expediency of publishing the work , had told him that it had merit , but ...
... opinion or feeling . It was one general burst of delight and admiration from all classes of readers . Lord Byron's literary friends , whom he consulted about the expediency of publishing the work , had told him that it had merit , but ...
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... opinion , which he often puts on in his later writings , the real agony of disappointed ambition . He was seen at this period of his life to roam about from place to place , like a perturbed spirit ; he was now near Genoa living alone ...
... opinion , which he often puts on in his later writings , the real agony of disappointed ambition . He was seen at this period of his life to roam about from place to place , like a perturbed spirit ; he was now near Genoa living alone ...
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... opinion with the great epics of ancient and modern times . His smaller narrative poems are eminently spirited and happy . His elegies breathe the very soul of tenderness , regret , and pleasing melancholy . The most trifling thing that ...
... opinion with the great epics of ancient and modern times . His smaller narrative poems are eminently spirited and happy . His elegies breathe the very soul of tenderness , regret , and pleasing melancholy . The most trifling thing that ...
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... opinion . It is written with uncommon vigor and spirit , and the best passages will stand a comparison with the finest pages in Pope . It wears , however , some marks of immatu- rity . The attempts at point are not always successful ...
... opinion . It is written with uncommon vigor and spirit , and the best passages will stand a comparison with the finest pages in Pope . It wears , however , some marks of immatu- rity . The attempts at point are not always successful ...
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... opinion , much inferior in merit , as well as importance , to Childe Harold . These compositions are , in reality , what they profess to be , narrative ; and not like Harold , descriptive and moral poems in disguise . We must ...
... opinion , much inferior in merit , as well as importance , to Childe Harold . These compositions are , in reality , what they profess to be , narrative ; and not like Harold , descriptive and moral poems in disguise . We must ...
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Page 32 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 41 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him! — He is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 32 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 29 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar!
Page 29 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Page 29 - THERE was a sound of revelry by night ; And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 30 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Page 31 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes ; By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not Man the less but nature more.
Page 32 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime...
Page 32 - Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.