The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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... poets . Heaven only knows the number of her own stars - no astronomer may ever count them -but the soul - stars of earth are but few ; and with this Perryan pen could we name them all . Who ever heard of two Miltons - of two ...
... poets . Heaven only knows the number of her own stars - no astronomer may ever count them -but the soul - stars of earth are but few ; and with this Perryan pen could we name them all . Who ever heard of two Miltons - of two ...
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... poets desire that all mankind should , as far as it is possible , enjoy all that in the human is most divine ; and therefore while each has , " Like Prometheus , stolen the fire from heaven , ” they have all exultingly availed ...
... poets desire that all mankind should , as far as it is possible , enjoy all that in the human is most divine ; and therefore while each has , " Like Prometheus , stolen the fire from heaven , ” they have all exultingly availed ...
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... poets . Let us draw the best of them up in rank and file , and as they march before us , try their height by a mental military standard , declaring who are fit for admission into the grena- diers , who into the light company , and who ...
... poets . Let us draw the best of them up in rank and file , and as they march before us , try their height by a mental military standard , declaring who are fit for admission into the grena- diers , who into the light company , and who ...
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... poets of Pope's school . " And gloomy darkness roll'd around his head , " is idle tautology . " Twang'd his deadly bow , " not literal , where literality was demanded ; and " feather'd fates " may be restored , without Pope being the ...
... poets of Pope's school . " And gloomy darkness roll'd around his head , " is idle tautology . " Twang'd his deadly bow , " not literal , where literality was demanded ; and " feather'd fates " may be restored , without Pope being the ...
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... Poets . Even more admirable is the translation by Cowper . It is almost as literal as translation can be ; and we do not scruple that it is faultless . to say " Stood drawing forth his falchion huge ; when lo ! Down sent by Juno , to ...
... Poets . Even more admirable is the translation by Cowper . It is almost as literal as translation can be ; and we do not scruple that it is faultless . to say " Stood drawing forth his falchion huge ; when lo ! Down sent by Juno , to ...
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Página 61 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 78 - Yet, while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee : Alas ! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall. Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share : Oh ! prove a husband's and a father's care! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon wild fig-trees join the wall of Troy : Thou from this tower defend th...
Página 394 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 392 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Página 92 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground; Then kiss'd the child, and, lifting high in air, Thus to the gods preferr'da father's prayer: "O thou!
Página 58 - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
Página 112 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Página 97 - ... at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom : Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Página 160 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Página 330 - Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.