Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 Seiten |
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... death - of the awfulness which rests over how noble and sacred a thing the heart of man the dying , and renders all their words and ac- is , in spite of its strangest debasements and tions sacred - or of the fond retrospection , and ...
... death - of the awfulness which rests over how noble and sacred a thing the heart of man the dying , and renders all their words and ac- is , in spite of its strangest debasements and tions sacred - or of the fond retrospection , and ...
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... death " drop by drop , " sages of the Greek historian , and the narra- while his destined executioners seem " to ... deaths of the Covenanters immediately suc- ceeding , which give a dignity and a consecra- tion to their late terrific ...
... death " drop by drop , " sages of the Greek historian , and the narra- while his destined executioners seem " to ... deaths of the Covenanters immediately suc- ceeding , which give a dignity and a consecra- tion to their late terrific ...
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... death grapple of two beings , each endowed with poignant sensibilities and quenchless energy . There is no work of fic- tion which more rivets the attention — no tra- gedy which exhibits a struggle more sublime , or sufferings more ...
... death grapple of two beings , each endowed with poignant sensibilities and quenchless energy . There is no work of fic- tion which more rivets the attention — no tra- gedy which exhibits a struggle more sublime , or sufferings more ...
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... death and to joy . Even in this work , where the author has to conduct a perpetual miracle , his exceeding earnestness makes it difficult to believe him a fabulist . Listen to his hero , as he expatiates in the first consciousness of ...
... death and to joy . Even in this work , where the author has to conduct a perpetual miracle , his exceeding earnestness makes it difficult to believe him a fabulist . Listen to his hero , as he expatiates in the first consciousness of ...
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... death than at her life . " Here ( he exclaims in an agony of passion ) a noble Venetian lady is to be murdered by our poet , in sober sadness , purely for being " The character of the state ( of Venice ) is a fool . No pagan poet but ...
... death than at her life . " Here ( he exclaims in an agony of passion ) a noble Venetian lady is to be murdered by our poet , in sober sadness , purely for being " The character of the state ( of Venice ) is a fool . No pagan poet but ...
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Seite 155 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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 56 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; » Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Seite 55 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Seite 155 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
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 155 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome.
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 56 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Seite 154 - Of depth immeasurable; anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage, Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat...