The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits, Bände 1-2Galignani, 1825 |
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... things in their hands with haughty indifference . He raises his subject to himself , or tramples on it : he neither ... thing in its way ; Sir Walter Scott's glides like a river , clear , gentle , harmless . The poetry of the first ...
... things in their hands with haughty indifference . He raises his subject to himself , or tramples on it : he neither ... thing in its way ; Sir Walter Scott's glides like a river , clear , gentle , harmless . The poetry of the first ...
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... thing . " Farthest from them is best . " The extravagance and license of the one seems a proper antidote to the ... things are not good enough for him to 22 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
... thing . " Farthest from them is best . " The extravagance and license of the one seems a proper antidote to the ... things are not good enough for him to 22 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
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... thing but truth ; and strips a man of every thing but genius and virtue . It is a sort of natural canonization . It makes the meanest of us sacred - it installs the poet in his immortality , and lifts him to the skies . Death is the ...
... thing but truth ; and strips a man of every thing but genius and virtue . It is a sort of natural canonization . It makes the meanest of us sacred - it installs the poet in his immortality , and lifts him to the skies . Death is the ...
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... thing brought to it by tradition or custom - it does not project itself beyond this into the world unknown , but mechanically shrinks back as from the edge of a precipice . The land of pure reason is to his apprehension like Van ...
... thing brought to it by tradition or custom - it does not project itself beyond this into the world unknown , but mechanically shrinks back as from the edge of a precipice . The land of pure reason is to his apprehension like Van ...
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... thing changes and will change from what it was three hundred years ago to what it is now , -from what it is now to all that the bigoted admirer of the good old times most dreads and hates ! It is long since we read , and long since we ...
... thing changes and will change from what it was three hundred years ago to what it is now , -from what it is now to all that the bigoted admirer of the good old times most dreads and hates ! It is long since we read , and long since we ...
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Seite 134 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Seite 135 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Seite 53 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Seite 114 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Seite 59 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Seite 114 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Seite 73 - I behold thee in thy loftier mood, Wand'ring at eve, with finely frenzied eye, Beneath some vast old tempest-swinging wood ! Awhile, with mute awe gazing, I would brood, Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy.
Seite 114 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Seite 146 - When tides were neap, and, in the sultry day, Through the tall bounding mud-banks made their way, Which on each side rose swelling, and below The dark warm flood ran silently and slow; There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide...
Seite 104 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.