Essays critical and imaginativeBlackwood, 1857 |
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... felt - felt so poignantly , all the agonies and all the transports of life . He looked around him , and when he saw the smoke of the cottage rising up quietly and unbroken to heaven , he knew , for he had seen and blessed it , the quiet ...
... felt - felt so poignantly , all the agonies and all the transports of life . He looked around him , and when he saw the smoke of the cottage rising up quietly and unbroken to heaven , he knew , for he had seen and blessed it , the quiet ...
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... felt the power Of nature , and already was prepared , By his intense conceptions , to receive Deeply the lesson deep of love , which he Whom nature , by whatever means , has taught To feel intensely , cannot but receive . SUCH WAS THE ...
... felt the power Of nature , and already was prepared , By his intense conceptions , to receive Deeply the lesson deep of love , which he Whom nature , by whatever means , has taught To feel intensely , cannot but receive . SUCH WAS THE ...
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... felt even of the dead . But such sorrow as this the more endeared her husband to her heart — a heart ever faithful — and at times when she needed to practise that hardest of all virtues in a wife- forgiving ; but here all he desired was ...
... felt even of the dead . But such sorrow as this the more endeared her husband to her heart — a heart ever faithful — and at times when she needed to practise that hardest of all virtues in a wife- forgiving ; but here all he desired was ...
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... felt sang ! " It has been thoughtlessly said that Burns had no very deep love of nature , and that he has shown no very great power as a descriptive poet . The few lines quoted suffice to set aside that assertion ; but it is true that ...
... felt sang ! " It has been thoughtlessly said that Burns had no very deep love of nature , and that he has shown no very great power as a descriptive poet . The few lines quoted suffice to set aside that assertion ; but it is true that ...
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... as from an unpolluted fountain , the inspiration of pious song ! But its effect on innumerable hearts is not now electrical - it inspires peace . It is felt yet , and sadly changed THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF BURNS . 29.
... as from an unpolluted fountain , the inspiration of pious song ! But its effect on innumerable hearts is not now electrical - it inspires peace . It is felt yet , and sadly changed THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF BURNS . 29.
Términos y frases comunes
Allan Cunningham Ambleside auld ballad bard beautiful believe better breast breath Burns's called character charm Christabel clouds Coleridge Colonsay Cottar's Saturday Night dear death delight dream Dumfries earth Ellisland evil eyes face fair fancy fear feel felt frae gauger genius George Thomson Grasmere hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil honour hope hour human imagination inspired knew labour lady Lars Porsena lictors light living look Mauchline mind morning Mossgiel nature never noble o'er once passion perhaps pity poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride racter Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish seems Shanter Shuffler sing smile song soul spirit strong sweet tears tell tender thee things Thomson thou thought tion truth verse virtue voice walk whole Whyles wild wonder words Young Poets youth
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Página 299 - O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth— And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Página 297 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 341 - Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Página 336 - The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — ' The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast.
Página 335 - The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.
Página 33 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Página 337 - 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 roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 340 - The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. " About, about, in reel and rout, The death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white.
Página 342 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Página 340 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail ! a sail...