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Page 28
... expression of patient ineffable tenderness . The chivalrous head of the old Spanish Don , Velasquez , frowns out of the darkness ; and here , in the sun- shine , is Guido's Bacchus , crowned with purple grapes and glorious mellow ...
... expression of patient ineffable tenderness . The chivalrous head of the old Spanish Don , Velasquez , frowns out of the darkness ; and here , in the sun- shine , is Guido's Bacchus , crowned with purple grapes and glorious mellow ...
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... expression that pass over the face of the sky in the course of a forenoon ; and surely the April shadows that shift upon the sea , are even more fickle and capricious than those that cross the land . And is not the heaven that arches ...
... expression that pass over the face of the sky in the course of a forenoon ; and surely the April shadows that shift upon the sea , are even more fickle and capricious than those that cross the land . And is not the heaven that arches ...
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... It is a great favourite , however , and all kinds of extraordinary stories are told about it , which are supported upon the whole by the wise and suspicious expression of its countenance , " With his claws and his beak 44 AT THE SEASIDE .
... It is a great favourite , however , and all kinds of extraordinary stories are told about it , which are supported upon the whole by the wise and suspicious expression of its countenance , " With his claws and his beak 44 AT THE SEASIDE .
Page 47
... expressions of clamorous discontent . And as he has hardly lighted on the adjacent pinnacle , and indulged in a few hoarse congratulatory croaks , before the same lesson has to be repeated , by nightfall his energies must be perfectly ...
... expressions of clamorous discontent . And as he has hardly lighted on the adjacent pinnacle , and indulged in a few hoarse congratulatory croaks , before the same lesson has to be repeated , by nightfall his energies must be perfectly ...
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... expression being once acquired , and he acquired it when a boy ) is written best in early life ; and Shelley , I think , had written his best before he died . His thought , as well as his feeling , was passionate , not contemplative ...
... expression being once acquired , and he acquired it when a boy ) is written best in early life ; and Shelley , I think , had written his best before he died . His thought , as well as his feeling , was passionate , not contemplative ...
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Page 15 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 146 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 246 - The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 325 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 288 - In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low, And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 292 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
Page 177 - Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good.
Page 166 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 414 - Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain ' with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 318 - The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it : the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases.