Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon TalfourdCarey and Hart, 1846 - 172 Seiten |
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... claims of nature on our hearts asserted , and to feel that she is , for her own sake , worthy of deep love . It is not ... claim kindred with Baillie Nichol Jarvie , while the Glasgow weaver , without losing one of his nice peculiarities ...
... claims of nature on our hearts asserted , and to feel that she is , for her own sake , worthy of deep love . It is not ... claim kindred with Baillie Nichol Jarvie , while the Glasgow weaver , without losing one of his nice peculiarities ...
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... claim kindred by a warm and living touch . This chill remoteness from hu- manity is attended by a general want of har- mony and proportion in the whole - by a wild excursiveness of sensibility and thought— which add to its ungenial ...
... claim kindred by a warm and living touch . This chill remoteness from hu- manity is attended by a general want of har- mony and proportion in the whole - by a wild excursiveness of sensibility and thought— which add to its ungenial ...
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... claim of a wild and irregular genius . For something new and strange and surprising ; him a dictionary is a sufficient guide to Par- and the more remote from their daily thoughts nassus . It is only by representing those in- and habits ...
... claim of a wild and irregular genius . For something new and strange and surprising ; him a dictionary is a sufficient guide to Par- and the more remote from their daily thoughts nassus . It is only by representing those in- and habits ...
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... claim to the supernatural by the fearful cast of his language - is discovered to be a low impostor , who has produced all by the aid of poor tricks and secret passages ! Where is the policy of this ? Unless , by his power , the author ...
... claim to the supernatural by the fearful cast of his language - is discovered to be a low impostor , who has produced all by the aid of poor tricks and secret passages ! Where is the policy of this ? Unless , by his power , the author ...
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... claims to public esteem , not only as a critic , but as a wit , a politician , and a poet . In the first and the last of these characters , he can receive but little praise . His attempts at gayety and humour are weighty and awkward ...
... claims to public esteem , not only as a critic , but as a wit , a politician , and a poet . In the first and the last of these characters , he can receive but little praise . His attempts at gayety and humour are weighty and awkward ...
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Seite 155 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire - that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Seite 56 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Seite 56 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Seite 155 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Seite 78 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Seite 12 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 56 - I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Seite 55 - 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.
Seite 55 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering...
Seite 154 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.