Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... light of the starlike window ; and the merry music is heard like an echo dwelling in the sky ! across those humble thresholds often did we on Christmas nights of yore - wandering through our solitary sylvan haunts , under the branches ...
... light of the starlike window ; and the merry music is heard like an echo dwelling in the sky ! across those humble thresholds often did we on Christmas nights of yore - wandering through our solitary sylvan haunts , under the branches ...
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... light . Few words are needed to awaken , before parental eyes , the visions now stealing be- fore mine - and , broken and all imperfect though these effusions may be , yet may they touch with pensive plea- sure some simple hearts , that ...
... light . Few words are needed to awaken , before parental eyes , the visions now stealing be- fore mine - and , broken and all imperfect though these effusions may be , yet may they touch with pensive plea- sure some simple hearts , that ...
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... light . But now , the optical spectra evanish - our sight becomes reconciled to the various glitter - the too powerful blaze seems tamed down - the lustre of the hues subside , and we can bear , without winking , or placing our fingers ...
... light . But now , the optical spectra evanish - our sight becomes reconciled to the various glitter - the too powerful blaze seems tamed down - the lustre of the hues subside , and we can bear , without winking , or placing our fingers ...
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... Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life , The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay , and The Foresters . The first is bound - as thy sweet eyes see - in variegated silk - too ornamental as some might haply think - but not so thou- for thou knowest ...
... Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life , The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay , and The Foresters . The first is bound - as thy sweet eyes see - in variegated silk - too ornamental as some might haply think - but not so thou- for thou knowest ...
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... light of setting suns ; and although William Words- worth be often but as a lowly pastoral poet piping in the shade , yet as often is he like the blind John Milton , who sung in his glorious darkness of Paradise - and the Courts of ...
... light of setting suns ; and although William Words- worth be often but as a lowly pastoral poet piping in the shade , yet as often is he like the blind John Milton , who sung in his glorious darkness of Paradise - and the Courts of ...
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Page 260 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 201 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Page 308 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 265 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 168 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 206 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Page 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace: Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 222 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 246 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old.
Page 215 - ... must often, in liveliness and truth, fall short of that which is uttered by men in real life, under the actual pressure of those passions, certain shadows of which the poet thus produces, or feels to be produced, in himself.