tis kindled o' nights With a semblance of flame by the chill Northern Lights. He may rank (Griswold says so) first bard of your nation, (There's no doubt that he stands in supreme ice-olation,) Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on, But no warm... 1875-1890 - Page 121edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1886 - 618 pages
...signally and almost painfully unsympathetic, the admiration evidently enforced rather than spontaneous — He may rank, Griswold says so, first bard of your...nation ; There's no doubt that he stands in supreme ice-olation, If he stirs you at all, it is just, on my soul, Like being stirred up with the very North... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1849 - 544 pages
...and as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg, that never is ignified, Save when by reflection 't is kindled o' nights With a semblance of flame by the...rank (Griswold says so) first bard of your nation, (There 's no doubt that he stands in supreme ice-olation,) Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 pages
...those who are overflowing with inspiration. The smartest of American satirists thus delineates him : There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified,...nation, (There's no doubt that he stands in supreme ice-olation) Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on, But no warm applauses come, peal following... | |
| 1853 - 538 pages
...those who are overflowing with inspiration. The smartest of American satirists thus delineates him : There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified,...'tis kindled o' nights, With a semblance of flame by ilie chill Northern Lights. He may rank (Griswold says so) first bard of your nation, (There's no doubt... | |
| Alexander Harris - Australia - 1853 - 436 pages
...Bayley, Esq. Koyai Simo, cloth extra, gilt edges, 2s. The SAME EDITION, morocco extra, gilt edges, 5s. 44 There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg, that never was ignificd. If I call him an iceberg, I don't mean to say There is nothing in that which is grand,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...those who are overflowing with inspiration. The smartest of American satirists thus delineates him : "There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified...nation, (There's no doubt that he stands in supreme iceolation ;) Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on, But no warm applauses come, peal following... | |
| Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...Lowell never wrote a more unjustified criticism than the passage on Bryant in "A Fable for Critics": "There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified,...is ignified, Save when by reflection 'tis kindled o'nights With a semblance of flame by the chill Northern Lights," and the kindlier words at the close... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 112 pages
...And to hear, you're not over-particular whence, Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense. " There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg, that never is igtiified, Save when by reflection 'tis kindled o' nights With a semblance of flame by the chill Northern... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1858 - 328 pages
...And to hear, you're not over-particular whence, Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense. " There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified,...nation, (There's no doubt that he stands in supreme iceYour topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on, But no warm applauses come, peal following peal on,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...whence, Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense. " There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as As a smooth, silent iceberg, that never is ignified,...nights With a semblance of flame by the chill Northern dignified, Lights. He may rank ((iriswold says so) first bard of your nation, (There's no doubt that... | |
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