Colloquies, desultory and diverse, but chiefly upon poetry and poets. [by C.L. Lordan]. |
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... : I intend it to be read with another punctuation — WHAT'S in a NAME ! and thus employ it to convey an emphatic converse meaning to that which it expresses in re Romeo Montague . A The pages to which I venture to prefix a Name.
... : I intend it to be read with another punctuation — WHAT'S in a NAME ! and thus employ it to convey an emphatic converse meaning to that which it expresses in re Romeo Montague . A The pages to which I venture to prefix a Name.
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... meaning display - inexpressive adornment - but to the observant eye are all replete with a sublime sig- nificance : that the humblest object which can attract his gaze , though seemingly inanimate or inert , is yet an instrument of ...
... meaning display - inexpressive adornment - but to the observant eye are all replete with a sublime sig- nificance : that the humblest object which can attract his gaze , though seemingly inanimate or inert , is yet an instrument of ...
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... meaning , from the lips of this pious man , who , imputing to form and ceremony no availing influence per se , does not therefore disdain to demand veneration for antiquity , and cement attachment by representations and persuasions ...
... meaning , from the lips of this pious man , who , imputing to form and ceremony no availing influence per se , does not therefore disdain to demand veneration for antiquity , and cement attachment by representations and persuasions ...
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... meaning through all time , to make the enlargement of her sheep - fold a welcome sight to the world.- May Heaven preserve mankind from her maternal mercies ! The effect of distance is to diminish mag- nitude ; and now , in the calm ...
... meaning through all time , to make the enlargement of her sheep - fold a welcome sight to the world.- May Heaven preserve mankind from her maternal mercies ! The effect of distance is to diminish mag- nitude ; and now , in the calm ...
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... meaning . Yet , when he follows the current of his own generous heart's impulses , how high sentiment , noble- heartedness , and " the soul of gentleness , " pour out , as at flood - gates , into Shakspeare's Conceptions of Woman ! He ...
... meaning . Yet , when he follows the current of his own generous heart's impulses , how high sentiment , noble- heartedness , and " the soul of gentleness , " pour out , as at flood - gates , into Shakspeare's Conceptions of Woman ! He ...
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Page 201 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 192 - To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task ; But I can feel thy fortunes, and partake Thy joys and sorrows with as true a heart As any thunderer there.
Page 153 - We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away...
Page 219 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed' my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Page 191 - And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 14 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 177 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 86 - Clasp me a little longer, on the brink Of fate ! while I can feel thy dear caress ; And, when this heart hath ceased to beat — oh! think, And let it mitigate thy woe's excess, That thou hast been to me all tenderness, And friend to more than human friendship just Oh ! by that retrospect of happiness, And by the hopes of an immortal trust, God shall assuage thy pangs — when I am laid in dust ! xxx.
Page 38 - May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd...
Page 179 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...