Poems, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 |
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... metre ; for , as it may be proper to remind the Reader , the distinction of metre is regular and uniform , and not , like that which is produced by what is usually called poetic diction , arbitrary , and subject to infinite caprices ...
... metre ; for , as it may be proper to remind the Reader , the distinction of metre is regular and uniform , and not , like that which is produced by what is usually called poetic diction , arbitrary , and subject to infinite caprices ...
Page 385
... metre , and that it is injudicious to write in metre , unless it be accompanied with the other artificial distinctions of style with which metre is usually accompanied , and that by such deviation more will be lost from the shock which ...
... metre , and that it is injudicious to write in metre , unless it be accompanied with the other artificial distinctions of style with which metre is usually accompanied , and that by such deviation more will be lost from the shock which ...
Page 386
... metre to divest language in a certain degree of its reality , and thus to throw a sort of half consciousness of unsubstantial existence over the whole composition , there can be little doubt but that more pathetic situations and ...
... metre to divest language in a certain degree of its reality , and thus to throw a sort of half consciousness of unsubstantial existence over the whole composition , there can be little doubt but that more pathetic situations and ...
Page 387
... metre has been grossly injudicious ) in the feelings of pleasure which the Reader has been accustomed to connect with metre in general , and in the feeling , whether cheerful or melancholy , which he has been accustomed to connect with ...
... metre has been grossly injudicious ) in the feelings of pleasure which the Reader has been accustomed to connect with metre in general , and in the feeling , whether cheerful or melancholy , which he has been accustomed to connect with ...
Page 388
... metre , and to have shown that metre is hence enabled to afford much pleasure , and to have pointed out in what manner that pleasure is pro- duced . But my limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject , and I must content myself ...
... metre , and to have shown that metre is hence enabled to afford much pleasure , and to have pointed out in what manner that pleasure is pro- duced . But my limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject , and I must content myself ...
Common terms and phrases
beauty behold beneath birds Black Comb blessed bower brave breath bright BROUGHAM CASTLE Busk CALAIS calm cheer Child Clifford clouds Coleorton Countess of Pembroke dark dear delight doth dream earth fair fear feelings fields Flower Friend Grasmere grave green grove happy hath hear heard heart Heaven hill hope hour human labour language live lofty look Lord Clifford Martha Ray metre metrical mighty mind morning mountain murmur nature never o'er objects oh misery pain passion PEEL CASTLE pleasure Poems Poet poetic diction Poetry poor praise pride prose Reader Rob Roy rock round Shepherd sight silent Simon Lee sing Skiddaw sleep song sorrow soul sound spirit stand stone strife sweet thee thine things Thorn thou art thought trees truth Twill Vale verse voice waters wild wind wood words Yarrow Ye Men youth
Popular passages
Page 212 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour ; .England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 355 - To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks, which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they...
Page 191 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 338 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Page 381 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 105 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: — We murder to dissect.
Page 80 - Unwearied in that service : rather say With warmer love — oh ! with far deeper zeal Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake ! LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
Page 30 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Page 354 - Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 352 - Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage; thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find...