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Leigh Hunt. FROM THE ENGLISH POETS , WITH MARKINGS OF THE BEST PASSAGES , CRITICAL NOTICES OF THE WRITERS , AND AN ESSAY ON " WHAT IS POETRY ? " BY LEIGH HUNT . 3 . Imagination and Eancy . NEW YORK : DERBY & JACKSON , 119 NASSAU STREET ...
Leigh Hunt. FROM THE ENGLISH POETS , WITH MARKINGS OF THE BEST PASSAGES , CRITICAL NOTICES OF THE WRITERS , AND AN ESSAY ON " WHAT IS POETRY ? " BY LEIGH HUNT . 3 . Imagination and Eancy . NEW YORK : DERBY & JACKSON , 119 NASSAU STREET ...
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... passages , intimated by the italics . Some will think them too numerous ; sc me Pernaps too few ; many who chance to take up the book , may wish there had been none at all ; but these will have the goodness to recollect what has just ...
... passages , intimated by the italics . Some will think them too numerous ; sc me Pernaps too few ; many who chance to take up the book , may wish there had been none at all ; but these will have the goodness to recollect what has just ...
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... passages in no spirit of dictation to any one , much less of disparagement to all the admirable passages not marked . If he assumed anything at all ( beyond what is implied in the fact of imparting experience ) , it was the pro- bable ...
... passages in no spirit of dictation to any one , much less of disparagement to all the admirable passages not marked . If he assumed anything at all ( beyond what is implied in the fact of imparting experience ) , it was the pro- bable ...
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... passages in remarkable relation to the art of the Painter . For obvious reasons no living writer is included ; and some , lately deceased , do not come within the plan . The omission will not be thought invidious in an Editor , who has ...
... passages in remarkable relation to the art of the Painter . For obvious reasons no living writer is included ; and some , lately deceased , do not come within the plan . The omission will not be thought invidious in an Editor , who has ...
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... passage in our old English ballads and romances , and of the passionate sincerity in general of the greatest early poets , such as Homer and Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a " literary world , " and were not perplexed ...
... passage in our old English ballads and romances , and of the passionate sincerity in general of the greatest early poets , such as Homer and Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a " literary world , " and were not perplexed ...
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Página 219 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 189 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 252 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Página 252 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 177 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 233 - ST. AGNES' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Página 194 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
Página 88 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 250 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 186 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus