David Gray, and other essays, chiefly on poetrySampson Low&Company, 1868 - 318 Seiten |
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... sound , - always inadequate , perhaps , to represent the whole of sight , but interpenetrating through the medium of emotion with the entire mystery of life . Nothing , indeed , so distinguishes the variety of Seers as their melody . It ...
... sound , - always inadequate , perhaps , to represent the whole of sight , but interpenetrating through the medium of emotion with the entire mystery of life . Nothing , indeed , so distinguishes the variety of Seers as their melody . It ...
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... sound is this , -where the thought and the emotion die away into a murmur like the wash of a summer sea ? Thou wast not born for death , immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was ...
... sound is this , -where the thought and the emotion die away into a murmur like the wash of a summer sea ? Thou wast not born for death , immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was ...
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... sounds more variegated and diffuse . Take the following passage from the " Paradise Lost " of Milton : : - For now , and since first break of dawn , the Fiend , Mere serpent in appearance , forth was come , And on his quest , where ...
... sounds more variegated and diffuse . Take the following passage from the " Paradise Lost " of Milton : : - For now , and since first break of dawn , the Fiend , Mere serpent in appearance , forth was come , And on his quest , where ...
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... sound Of rustling leaves , but minded not , as us'd To such disport before her through the field , From every beast , more duteous at her call Than at Circean call the herd disguis'd . He bolder now , uncall'd before her stood , But as ...
... sound Of rustling leaves , but minded not , as us'd To such disport before her through the field , From every beast , more duteous at her call Than at Circean call the herd disguis'd . He bolder now , uncall'd before her stood , But as ...
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... 'n . Where is the thunder here ? Where is the solemn music ? Instead of awe - inspiring sound , we have bald and turgid prose , pieced out clumsily into ten - syllable lines , every one of which limps THE POET , OR SEER . 45.
... 'n . Where is the thunder here ? Where is the solemn music ? Instead of awe - inspiring sound , we have bald and turgid prose , pieced out clumsily into ten - syllable lines , every one of which limps THE POET , OR SEER . 45.
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