 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 páginas
...stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakspeare and Milton ; and yet in a mind perfectly unborrowed and his own. To employ his own words, which are at...objects, ' add the gleam, The light that never was on Bea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.' " With much, nay, with almost all of this, I am... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 páginas
...were difficult indeed to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with " the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream : " the celestial and the earthly being so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 144 páginas
...and enchanting regions, — regions which, to all that is lovely in the forms and colours of earth, " Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the pnet'a dream." A motion of the hand brings all Arcadia to sight. The war of Troy can, at our bidding,... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 páginas
...all gentle things. Ah ! tfien, if mine bad been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea, or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, tbou hoary pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea that... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1852 - 396 páginas
...beautiful, the blessed." " Ah ! if but mine had been the Painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." WORDSWORTH. " Air rather gardenny I should say/* — MELVILLE'S Moby-Dick. " Nor shall the garden during... | |
 | 1853 - 588 páginas
...yield themselves to the indolence of despair — the ennui of disappointment — Becanse they fail " to add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration, and the poct's dream." He who pronounced his work good at the creation, merely used the term good adjectively.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 páginas
...moonlight or sun-set, diffuse over a familiar landscape." Nay, as Wordsworth expresses it, true poetry does to all thoughts and to all objects " Add the gleam,...or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." The musical beauty of language, the measure and the rhyme which the poet adopts, tends to keep in view... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 páginas
...all gentle Things. Ah ! ram, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; 1 would have planted thee, thou Hoary Pile ! Amid a world how different from this ! Beside a sea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 páginas
...stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakespeare and Milton. And yet, in a mind perfectly unborrowed and his own, to employ his own words, which are at once an instance and illustration, he does indeed, to all thoughts and to all objects, ' Add the gleam, The light that never... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1856 - 360 páginas
...stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakespeare and Milton ; and yet in a mind perfectly unborrowed and his own. To employ his own words, which are at...or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.'" With much, nay, with almost all of this, I am quite disposed to agree ; but then it applies only to... | |
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Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream... 
