Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-centuryW. Blackwood and Sons, 1856 - 335 Seiten |
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... could not well be ; as not a single name has been adverted to , throughout , which did not suggest its claims to attention by some high or peculiar excellence . CONTENTS LECTURE I. State of Poetical Literature at the commencement.
... could not well be ; as not a single name has been adverted to , throughout , which did not suggest its claims to attention by some high or peculiar excellence . CONTENTS LECTURE I. State of Poetical Literature at the commencement.
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... excellence of her ballad poetry : The Spider and the Fly . -Caroline Norton : The Dream , Child of the Islands , and Songs.- Lady Flora Hastings , Harriet Drury , and Camilla Toulmin . - Eliza- beth Barrett Browning , her genius and its ...
... excellence of her ballad poetry : The Spider and the Fly . -Caroline Norton : The Dream , Child of the Islands , and Songs.- Lady Flora Hastings , Harriet Drury , and Camilla Toulmin . - Eliza- beth Barrett Browning , her genius and its ...
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... excellence , that , when we turn from " Clifton Grove , " to the frag- mentary " Christiad , " it is impossible to predicate what achievement could have been beyond his maturer grasp . His verses " To an Early Primrose " would not have ...
... excellence , that , when we turn from " Clifton Grove , " to the frag- mentary " Christiad , " it is impossible to predicate what achievement could have been beyond his maturer grasp . His verses " To an Early Primrose " would not have ...
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... excellence appertains to his sketches of cottage - life . His swains were no Colins and Lubins , who in red silk handkerchiefs and knee - smalls , tune the reed in Arca- dian fashion , and lay down crooks , decorated with ribbon , to ...
... excellence appertains to his sketches of cottage - life . His swains were no Colins and Lubins , who in red silk handkerchiefs and knee - smalls , tune the reed in Arca- dian fashion , and lay down crooks , decorated with ribbon , to ...
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... excellence , which , however , the future efforts of the reverend author were not destined to fulfil . William Sotheby particularly distinguished himself as a translator from the German , and William Roscoe from the Italian ; but , in ...
... excellence , which , however , the future efforts of the reverend author were not destined to fulfil . William Sotheby particularly distinguished himself as a translator from the German , and William Roscoe from the Italian ; but , in ...
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admiration alike Allan Cunningham amid ballads Barry Cornwall beauty breath bright Burns Byron Campbell canto characteristic Childe clouds Coleridge composition Crabbe dark delight dream earth Ebenezer Elliot elegance excellence exquisite fancy feeling finest flowers forest Furness Abbey genius gentle Giaour glowing grace hand hath heart heaven Hogg human imagery imagination Isle of Palms James Hogg Keats Kilmeny Leigh Hunt less light literature look Lord Lord Byron manner Milton mind Moore morning mountains nature never night o'er Oriana original passages passion pathos peculiar picturesque poem poet poetical poetry Prisoner of Chillon regarded Sally Brown scarcely scenes Scott seemed sentiment Shelley song Southey spirit stanzas star style sublime sweet taste tenderness thee Theodore Hook things Thomas Thomas Aird Thomas Hood thou thought tion tone touches Twas verse wild Wilson wonderful Wordsworth writings young
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Seite 95 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Seite 157 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Seite 180 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; Star of the East ! the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid...
Seite 86 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Seite 65 - There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising calm and bright; The birds are singing in the distant woods; Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods; The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters; And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters.
Seite 81 - Upon the glassy plain; and oftentimes, When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Seite 252 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy.
Seite 125 - But present still, though now unseen, When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And oh, when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm the frequent night, Be Thou, long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning and a shining light! 101 Our harps we left by Babel's...
Seite 144 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Seite 224 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.