Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 36W. Blackwood, 1834 - England |
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... eyes - with our whole heart , soul , and mind concentrated in the dilated orbs were now fixed between those long ears , laid back like those of a hare before greyhounds up a hill , and we became a Trot . Oh ! that the uni- verse could ...
... eyes - with our whole heart , soul , and mind concentrated in the dilated orbs were now fixed between those long ears , laid back like those of a hare before greyhounds up a hill , and we became a Trot . Oh ! that the uni- verse could ...
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... eyes , his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice , And close your eyes with holy dread ; For he on honey - dew hath fed , And drank the milk of Paradise . " Meanwhile the plot began to thicken , for our friends in the gig came ...
... eyes , his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice , And close your eyes with holy dread ; For he on honey - dew hath fed , And drank the milk of Paradise . " Meanwhile the plot began to thicken , for our friends in the gig came ...
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... eye did not miss the dewdrops , so bright had they left the green earth on their evanishing to heaven . " Our heart ... eyes , for Windermere now bore on her bosom a hundred sail . It seemed as if a Flight of Swans had dropped upon the ...
... eye did not miss the dewdrops , so bright had they left the green earth on their evanishing to heaven . " Our heart ... eyes , for Windermere now bore on her bosom a hundred sail . It seemed as if a Flight of Swans had dropped upon the ...
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... eye for the picturesque , just where they should be , in the meadows kept by irrigation and inundation in pe ... eyes fixed on ours - and we knew , from their fond and fearless expression , that her breast was on her callow young ...
... eye for the picturesque , just where they should be , in the meadows kept by irrigation and inundation in pe ... eyes fixed on ours - and we knew , from their fond and fearless expression , that her breast was on her callow young ...
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... eyes torn out by pincers , or punched in by rule ? " Our answer , after ma- ture deliberation , was , " That we 66 should like to have one eye torn out by 1834. ] 9 Christopher on Colonsay . Fytte Second .
... eyes torn out by pincers , or punched in by rule ? " Our answer , after ma- ture deliberation , was , " That we 66 should like to have one eye torn out by 1834. ] 9 Christopher on Colonsay . Fytte Second .
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Page 521 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my thought, Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy: Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing — there As in her natural form, swelled...
Page 537 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold : And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 521 - O, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink : Companion of the...
Page 536 - The Wedding-guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page 537 - And some in dreams assured were Of. the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow.
Page 514 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
Page 535 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 160 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Page 535 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 536 - And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din." He holds him with his skinny hand, " There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will.