Sonnets of this CenturyWilliam Sharp W. Scott, 1886 - 333 páginas |
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Página xxi
... seem to be the best medium , the means ap- parently prescribed by certain radical laws of melody and harmony , in other words , of nature : even as the swallow's wing is the best for rapid volant wheel and shift , as the heron's for ...
... seem to be the best medium , the means ap- parently prescribed by certain radical laws of melody and harmony , in other words , of nature : even as the swallow's wing is the best for rapid volant wheel and shift , as the heron's for ...
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... seem generally to have had in mind the modern epigram , a very different thing the essential principle of the ancient epigram was the presentment of a single idea , emotion , or fact , and in this it is entirely at one with the rival ...
... seem generally to have had in mind the modern epigram , a very different thing the essential principle of the ancient epigram was the presentment of a single idea , emotion , or fact , and in this it is entirely at one with the rival ...
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... seems to have sent up a green shoot here and there , only to be nipt , or to perish of untoward circumstances ; and it is not until the 13th century that we find it in fulfilled bud , in due time to open into the mature Petrarcan flower ...
... seems to have sent up a green shoot here and there , only to be nipt , or to perish of untoward circumstances ; and it is not until the 13th century that we find it in fulfilled bud , in due time to open into the mature Petrarcan flower ...
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... seem to forget that the epic , the tragedy , the ode are also arbitrary forms , and that it is somewhat out of place to rail against established rules of architecture in the erection of a cottage , and to blink those in the building of ...
... seem to forget that the epic , the tragedy , the ode are also arbitrary forms , and that it is somewhat out of place to rail against established rules of architecture in the erection of a cottage , and to blink those in the building of ...
Página xxxix
... с с а xxxvii . lxxvi . xciii . xxviiic . APATK The figures in the third division of this Table denote examples among the sonnets in this book of the variation in question . Of these , it seems to me that the two THE SONNET . xxxix.
... с с а xxxvii . lxxvi . xciii . xxviiic . APATK The figures in the third division of this Table denote examples among the sonnets in this book of the variation in question . Of these , it seems to me that the two THE SONNET . xxxix.
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Página lvi - Since there's no help. come let us kiss and part: Nay. I have done: you get no more of me. And I am glad. yea. glad with all my heart. That thus so cleanly I myself can free: Shake hands for ever. cancel all our vows. And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Página 114 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Página 119 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Página 202 - I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Página 264 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven...
Página 292 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Página 256 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Página lviii - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream.
Página 34 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Página 260 - Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me wear...