Romance and reality, by L.E.L. |
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Página 129 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peal'd the banner-cry of hell!
Página 143 - The Monk gazed long on the lovely moon, Then into the night he looked forth; And red and bright the streamers light Were dancing in the glowing north. So had he seen, in fair Castile, The youth in glittering squadrons start, Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.
Página 134 - Which," interrupted Mrs. Sullivan, " being translated into plain English, means that vanity and imagination were at variance; and a thousand fine things that he might have said about the prospect with such effect, if he had been listened to, were now being wasted on himself." " To again quote the oracles of my high-priest, Wordsworth, there is nothing like ' The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on its own heart.
Página 273 - Poor race of men!" said the pitying Spirit, "Dearly ye pay for your primal Fall — Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
Página 205 - Spirit of Love! soon thy rose-plumes wear The weight and the sully of canker and care: Falsehood is round thee ; Hope leads thee on, Till every hue from thy pinion is gone. But one bright moment is all thine own, The one ere thy visible presence is known; When, like the wind of the south, thy power, Sunning the heavens, sweetening the flower, Is felt, but not seen.
Página 283 - From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise?
Página 252 - By the by, I think it among the great honours to French literature, that one of its most original branches, fairy tales, is peculiarly its own. I believe the Children in the Wood, Whittington and his Cat, and Little Red Ridinghood, are those only, of all our popular tales, which have an English origin.
Página 196 - ... first-rate writers. Who, that reflects at all, can deny, that the novel is the literary Aaron's rod that is rapidly swallowing all the rest. It has supplied the place of the drama — it has merged in its pages pamphlets, essays, and satires. Have we a theory — it is developed by means of a character ; an opinion — it is set forth in dialogue ; and satire is personified in a chapter, not a scene.
Página 303 - Now 1 have no hope that does not dream for thee ; I have no joy that is not shared by thee ; I have no fear that does not dread for thee. All that I once took pleasure in...
Página 149 - One of the very few persons of whom I have a pleasure in speaking — an author, yet free from envy — a critic, yet free from malice. Charles Townsend said of old, ' to tax and to please, any more than to love and be wise, is not given to man;' and to prefer and yet please, is a difficult task for an editor.