The Poetry of Life, Band 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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... speak in plain prose , and even in this enlightened day , of the love of May - day queens , and village swains ; of the love of Damon and Delias ; of the love which speaks in the common - place of sighs and blushes , as well as of that ...
... speak in plain prose , and even in this enlightened day , of the love of May - day queens , and village swains ; of the love of Damon and Delias ; of the love which speaks in the common - place of sighs and blushes , as well as of that ...
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... speak for themselves , almost exclusively from the impulse of the moment , they can only speak of love in the colloquial language of the day , which language changing with the tastes and fashions of the world , that of Shakespeare's ...
... speak for themselves , almost exclusively from the impulse of the moment , they can only speak of love in the colloquial language of the day , which language changing with the tastes and fashions of the world , that of Shakespeare's ...
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... speak of love is not only offen- sive to modern ears , but degrading to the sentiment itself a sentiment which ... speak in tropes and metaphors , with classical allusions , and rounded periods , of the passion whose powerful influence ...
... speak of love is not only offen- sive to modern ears , but degrading to the sentiment itself a sentiment which ... speak in tropes and metaphors , with classical allusions , and rounded periods , of the passion whose powerful influence ...
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... speaking smile , that they believe them- selves to be enjoying an inward source of satisfaction , which their companions know not of . Imagination invests with a peculiar importance and a mysterious charm , all the minutiae of life , as ...
... speaking smile , that they believe them- selves to be enjoying an inward source of satisfaction , which their companions know not of . Imagination invests with a peculiar importance and a mysterious charm , all the minutiae of life , as ...
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... speak of the sentiment of grief , first , under that mild and softened aspect which assumes the name of sadness or melancholy , and then as a gloomy passion , absorbing every faculty of the soul . Of all the distinctive characters ...
... speak of the sentiment of grief , first , under that mild and softened aspect which assumes the name of sadness or melancholy , and then as a gloomy passion , absorbing every faculty of the soul . Of all the distinctive characters ...
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admiration affections amongst Ariel arise ascer Balaam beauty behold beneath blessed Book of Job capable character charm cherub children of Israel children of men colouring connexion dark death deep diffused divine earth earthly enjoyment eternal evil existence faculty faithful familiar familiar spirits feeling genius glory grief hand happiness harmony hast hath heart heaven hope human ideas imagination impressions impulse influence instance intel intellectual Israel Jephthah language less light listen lives look Lord Lord Byron majesty mankind Mark Antony melancholy mental mighty mind Moab moral mountain nature ness never nexion object pain passions perceptions Philistines pity pleasure poet poetical poetry principles PROSPERO pure racter refined religion rience Saul Sisera smile sorrow soul speak sphere spirit stars sublime suffering sweet taste tears tender thee thine things thou thoughts tion truth unto voice wings woman wonder words writer
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Seite 32 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 156 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Seite 169 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Seite 82 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Seite 102 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Seite 89 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Seite 153 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Seite 101 - The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Seite 176 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Seite 170 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.