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... thoughts , yet I have written enough , if what is afloat , and what lies hid in man- uscript , were put together , to ... thought and ac- tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have hoped that , by being thus raised ...
... thoughts , yet I have written enough , if what is afloat , and what lies hid in man- uscript , were put together , to ... thought and ac- tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have hoped that , by being thus raised ...
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... thought of them when read , but what he read in them . Woe to that coterie where some critic sits despotic , intrenched behind the infallible " We . " Wo to that oracle who has infused such soft sleepiness , such a gentle dulness into ...
... thought of them when read , but what he read in them . Woe to that coterie where some critic sits despotic , intrenched behind the infallible " We . " Wo to that oracle who has infused such soft sleepiness , such a gentle dulness into ...
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... thought , they have at last become powerless to supersede it . From these causes and causes like these , the journals have lost much of their influence . There is a languid feeling about them , an inclination to suspect the justice of ...
... thought , they have at last become powerless to supersede it . From these causes and causes like these , the journals have lost much of their influence . There is a languid feeling about them , an inclination to suspect the justice of ...
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... thought but in love , to be recognised in judgment but in life . I would pour forth my melodies to the rejoicing winds . I would scatter my sced to the tender earth . I do not wish to hear in prose the meaning of my melody . I do not ...
... thought but in love , to be recognised in judgment but in life . I would pour forth my melodies to the rejoicing winds . I would scatter my sced to the tender earth . I do not wish to hear in prose the meaning of my melody . I do not ...
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... thoughts imputed to them they might have spoken , only in better and more concise terms , and the facts - are facts ... thought . 46 Happiness ! " thus said his musing mind , " it would seem at such hours and in such places as if it not ...
... thoughts imputed to them they might have spoken , only in better and more concise terms , and the facts - are facts ... thought . 46 Happiness ! " thus said his musing mind , " it would seem at such hours and in such places as if it not ...
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Page 81 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 103 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Page 85 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 255 - Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And...
Page 81 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 33 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words: — ' ' O thou eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and Giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech Thee, of Thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make ; I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book, De Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 335 - Walked of yore the Master-Singers, chanting rude poetic strains. From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guild, Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in spouts the swallows build.
Page 97 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green : And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye...
Page 83 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Page 167 - ... service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine — Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ON THE ISLAND OF ST.