The Living Age, Volume 198E. Littell & Company, 1893 |
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... NATURE - POET . AMONG the many and various " as- pects of Tennyson " which can occupy the critic's attention , none is more fas- cinating than that which shows the poet as a delineator of the beauties of nature . And surely this ...
... NATURE - POET . AMONG the many and various " as- pects of Tennyson " which can occupy the critic's attention , none is more fas- cinating than that which shows the poet as a delineator of the beauties of nature . And surely this ...
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... nature simply as the background of the human story . Secondly , poets upon whom nature produces a kind of ecstasy that may be called Sufeyistic , an ecstasy resulting in a rapturous hymn to her glory , rather than in a vivid picture of ...
... nature simply as the background of the human story . Secondly , poets upon whom nature produces a kind of ecstasy that may be called Sufeyistic , an ecstasy resulting in a rapturous hymn to her glory , rather than in a vivid picture of ...
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... nature's loveliness is in no way the first . Ebullient as is his delight in the beau- ties of nature , when he does dwell upon them for their own sake he always takes as much care as ever Homer did , or the singer of the " Chanson de ...
... nature's loveliness is in no way the first . Ebullient as is his delight in the beau- ties of nature , when he does dwell upon them for their own sake he always takes as much care as ever Homer did , or the singer of the " Chanson de ...
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... nature's beauty ; and he promised some day to show that it was nothing more than the development of the primeval religion of the Aryan race . The truth seems to be that this ec- | Wordsworth had much more than Cole- static temper has ...
... nature's beauty ; and he promised some day to show that it was nothing more than the development of the primeval religion of the Aryan race . The truth seems to be that this ec- | Wordsworth had much more than Cole- static temper has ...
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... nature that seem painted for their own sake , whatever might have been the real impulse of any one of the ancient poets ( whether Sophocles in the " Edipus Coloneus " felt the impulse to go on de- scribing his beloved groves , or ...
... nature that seem painted for their own sake , whatever might have been the real impulse of any one of the ancient poets ( whether Sophocles in the " Edipus Coloneus " felt the impulse to go on de- scribing his beloved groves , or ...
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Página 486 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 183 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 34 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn.
Página 429 - FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.
Página 376 - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.
Página 33 - All these he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see, the kindly human face, Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef, The moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd And blossom'd in the zenith, or the sweep Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave...
Página 34 - A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved All over this still ocean; and beyond, Far, far beyond, the solid vapours stretched, In headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes...
Página 42 - Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave Heard in dead night along that tableshore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...
Página 365 - O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Página 582 - And who is the worse for that?" BOSWELL. "It hurts people of weaker nerves." JOHNSON. "I know no such weak-nerved people." Mr. Burke, to whom I related this conference, said, "It is well, if when a man comes to die, he has nothing heavier upon his conscience than having been a little rough in conversation.