The Dublin Review, Volume 175Nicholas Patrick Wiseman Tablet Publishing Company, 1924 |
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Page 30 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray I Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.
Page 41 - tis all a cheat, Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 34 - His words are not only chosen, but the places in which he ranks them for the sound ; he who removes them from the station wherein their master sets them, spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his: they must be read in order as they lie; the least breath discomposes them; and somewhat of their divinity is lost.
Page 43 - What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose...
Page 32 - What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble.
Page 42 - 11 not wear a garland while Pan is away. While Pan and fair Syrinx are fled from our shore, The Graces are banish'd, and Love is no more : The soft god of pleasure, that warm'd our desires, Has broken his bow, and...
Page 317 - Faithful Cross! above all other, One and only noble tree! None in foliage, none in blossom, None in fruit thy peer may be; Sweetest wood and sweetest iron! Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Page 43 - By great examples daily fed, What in the best of books, her father's life, she read. And to be read herself she need not fear; Each test, and every light, her Muse will bear, Though Epictetus with his lamp were there.
Page 32 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Page 30 - My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires ; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights ; and when their glimpse was gone My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be Thine the glory and be mine the shame ! Good life be now my task ; my doubts are done ; What more could fright my faith than Three in One...