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... blue breadth of softly moving water , and the outline of the moun- tains above Chillon , bathed in morning mist . The first verses which naturally come into my mind are — " A thousand feet in depth below The massy waters B 4 CHAP . I. 7 ...
... blue breadth of softly moving water , and the outline of the moun- tains above Chillon , bathed in morning mist . The first verses which naturally come into my mind are — " A thousand feet in depth below The massy waters B 4 CHAP . I. 7 ...
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... blue sky , or love the dark earth better than the rose that grows from it . Hap- pily for mankind , beauty and ugliness are as positive in their nature as physical pain and pleasure , as light and darkness , or as life and death ; and ...
... blue sky , or love the dark earth better than the rose that grows from it . Hap- pily for mankind , beauty and ugliness are as positive in their nature as physical pain and pleasure , as light and darkness , or as life and death ; and ...
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... its colour , and to natural scenery its light ; in depriving heaven of its blue , and earth of its bloom , valour of its glow , and modesty of its blush . § 12 . - - II . LOVE OF BEAUTY 32 PART IV . OF THE REAL NATURE OF.
... its colour , and to natural scenery its light ; in depriving heaven of its blue , and earth of its bloom , valour of its glow , and modesty of its blush . § 12 . - - II . LOVE OF BEAUTY 32 PART IV . OF THE REAL NATURE OF.
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... blue heads and crimson tails ( though , by the way , this is not in the strict sense false art , as we shall see hereafter , inasmuch as it means no assertion that men ever had eagles ' faces ) . If this were not so , it would be ...
... blue heads and crimson tails ( though , by the way , this is not in the strict sense false art , as we shall see hereafter , inasmuch as it means no assertion that men ever had eagles ' faces ) . If this were not so , it would be ...
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... blue , and with the crimson ruling the blue and changing it into kingly purple , but not with the pure crimson : for all imagination must deal with the knowledge it has before accumulated ; it never produces anything but by combination ...
... blue , and with the crimson ruling the blue and changing it into kingly purple , but not with the pure crimson : for all imagination must deal with the knowledge it has before accumulated ; it never produces anything but by combination ...
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Page 118 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone : for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Page 54 - Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also come with thee.
Page 290 - Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue...
Page 161 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 274 - Since he, so gray and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough ; Would he could tell how deep the shade A thousand mingled branches made ; How broad the shadows of the oak, How clung the rowan to the rock, And through the foliage showed his head, With narrow leaves and berries red ; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every dell what birches hung, In every breeze what aspens shook, What alders shaded every brook!
Page 310 - To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, and they never will have power to do more.
Page 11 - I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
Page 12 - tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead; For, surely, then I should have sight Of him I wait for day and night, With love and longings infinite.
Page 162 - He listen'd, and he wept, and his bright tears Went trickling, down the golden bow he held. Thus with half-shut suffused eyes he stood, While from beneath some cumbrous boughs hard by With solemn step an awful Goddess came, And there was purport in her looks for him, Which he with eager guess began to read Perplex'd, the while melodiously he said: "How cam'st thou over the unfooted sea?
Page 204 - At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast; And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons flew , As in the storm the white sea-mew.