The Quarterly review, Volume 52Murray, 1834 |
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... young , and bodily infirmities , we regret to know , have pressed heavily upon him . His natural force is indeed abated ; but his eye is not dim , neither is his mind yet enfeebled . ' O youth ! ' he says in one of the most exquisitely ...
... young , and bodily infirmities , we regret to know , have pressed heavily upon him . His natural force is indeed abated ; but his eye is not dim , neither is his mind yet enfeebled . ' O youth ! ' he says in one of the most exquisitely ...
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... young ( and what if the latest birth of Creation ? ) Bride and consort of Heaven , that looks down upon thee enamoured ! Say , mysterious Earth ! O say , great mother and goddess , Was it not well with thee then , when first thy lap was ...
... young ( and what if the latest birth of Creation ? ) Bride and consort of Heaven , that looks down upon thee enamoured ! Say , mysterious Earth ! O say , great mother and goddess , Was it not well with thee then , when first thy lap was ...
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... young admirers of Goethe ; but their versification , especially Mr. Blackie's , is deformed throughout by provincial licenses ; and neither of them has caught the spirit of the poet in his lyrical snatches . We are much disposed to ...
... young admirers of Goethe ; but their versification , especially Mr. Blackie's , is deformed throughout by provincial licenses ; and neither of them has caught the spirit of the poet in his lyrical snatches . We are much disposed to ...
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... Young lord ! I tell thee that there are such beings- Yea , and it gives fierce merriment to the damn'd , To see these most proud men , that lothe mankind , At every stir and buz of coward conscience Trick , cant , and lie , -most ...
... Young lord ! I tell thee that there are such beings- Yea , and it gives fierce merriment to the damn'd , To see these most proud men , that lothe mankind , At every stir and buz of coward conscience Trick , cant , and lie , -most ...
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... young steed recoils upon his haunches , The never - yet - seen adder's hiss first heard . O surer than suspicion's hundred eyes Is that fine sense , which to the pure in heart , By mere oppugnancy of their own goodness , Reveals the ...
... young steed recoils upon his haunches , The never - yet - seen adder's hiss first heard . O surer than suspicion's hundred eyes Is that fine sense , which to the pure in heart , By mere oppugnancy of their own goodness , Reveals the ...
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Page 354 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 130 The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 29 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 330 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — ;both what they half create, And what perceive...
Page 42 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 338 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 33 - And there I felt thee ! — on that sea-cliff's verge, Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above, Had made one murmur with the distant surge ! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty ! my spirit felt thee there.
Page 32 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain ! O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor swell's!
Page 330 - For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 350 - SCORN not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp. It...
Page 12 - O ! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light, Rhythm in all thought, and joyance everywhere...