The North American Review, Band 73University of Northern Iowa, 1851 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... POETRY OF WORDSWORTH 448 . . 473 The Prelude , or Growth of a Poet's Mind : an Autobiographical Poem . By WILLIAM WORDS- WORTH . Memoirs of William Wordsworth , Poet - Laureate , D. C. L. By CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH , D. D. , Canon of ...
... POETRY OF WORDSWORTH 448 . . 473 The Prelude , or Growth of a Poet's Mind : an Autobiographical Poem . By WILLIAM WORDS- WORTH . Memoirs of William Wordsworth , Poet - Laureate , D. C. L. By CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH , D. D. , Canon of ...
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... poetry might have become almost equally popular , if he had chosen to follow the public taste instead of wasting his energies in a vain attempt to guide or create it ; for his acquisitions were even greater than those of his illustrious ...
... poetry might have become almost equally popular , if he had chosen to follow the public taste instead of wasting his energies in a vain attempt to guide or create it ; for his acquisitions were even greater than those of his illustrious ...
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... poets and philoso- phers ; for books were sealed mysteries to the bulk of the people . Now , the multitude form the ... poet , whose object it was to please , whose success consisted in pleasing ; he addressed a world - wide audience ...
... poets and philoso- phers ; for books were sealed mysteries to the bulk of the people . Now , the multitude form the ... poet , whose object it was to please , whose success consisted in pleasing ; he addressed a world - wide audience ...
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... poet- ical vagaries by a constant tribute of affectionate praise . His love magnified the value of their judgments , while he could not conceive respect for the opinions of people whom he had never seen . If Intercourse with men is ...
... poet- ical vagaries by a constant tribute of affectionate praise . His love magnified the value of their judgments , while he could not conceive respect for the opinions of people whom he had never seen . If Intercourse with men is ...
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any other poet except Shakspeare . But Southey might have enriched our literature with a series of tales , combining the peculiarities of Mackenzie and Sterne , and far excelling both in simplicity , purity of feeling , and depth of ...
any other poet except Shakspeare . But Southey might have enriched our literature with a series of tales , combining the peculiarities of Mackenzie and Sterne , and far excelling both in simplicity , purity of feeling , and depth of ...
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America Anglo-Saxon auxiliary auxiliary verbs beautiful become Bede blacks Blennerhasset Boston called cause cent character Chile Christian church civilization colony constitution duties earth England English English language existence fact faith feel freedom friends give Hebrew Hebrew poetry honor human hundred important Indians influence interest island labor land language Latin Latin language learned less lexicographer Liberia living LXXIII manufactures Massachusetts maxima and minima means ment mind moral nation native nature never object Odin original Parsee passed peculiar persons poet poetic poetry political population portion possession present preterite principles produce Professor Gibbs race regard religious respect sanitary Saxon says seems Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy slave slavery South Southey spirit theory thing thought tion trade tribes truth unity verbs whole words Wordsworth writing York
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Seite 32 - My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Seite 441 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great creator and preserver of the universe.
Seite 262 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Seite 263 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars. Beasts and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowls. Kings of the earth, and all people ; princes, and all judges of the earth. Both young men and maidens, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord : for his name alone is excellent, his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Seite 34 - ANGLO-SAXONICA.— Selections, in Prose and Verse, from •^*- Anglo-Saxon Literature, with an Introductory Ethnological Essay, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Louis F. KLIPSTEIN, of the University of Giessen.
Seite 492 - You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully in my Poems the feelings of human nature. I would fain hope that I have done so. But a great Poet ought to do more than this: he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings, to give them new compositions of feeling, to render their feelings more sane, pure, and permanent, in short, more consonant to [295] JUNE 1802 nature, that is, to eternal nature, and the great moving spirit of things.
Seite 310 - The English Language in its Elements and Forms. With a History of its Origin and Development. Abridged from the Octav
Seite 485 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Seite 29 - Here is a man at Keswick, who acts upon me as my own ghost would do. He is just what I was in 1794.
Seite 209 - In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.