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... slight Memorial will serve " To pluck the shining page from vulgar Time , And leave it whole to late Posterity . " November 20th , 1828 . J. T. ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION . THE only notice requisite xviii INTRODUCTION .
... slight Memorial will serve " To pluck the shining page from vulgar Time , And leave it whole to late Posterity . " November 20th , 1828 . J. T. ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION . THE only notice requisite xviii INTRODUCTION .
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... whole volumes of diffuse description which I could name : " Night's candles are burnt out , and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain's top . " " This passage would have been considered vile and vulgar 32 LECTURES ON.
... whole volumes of diffuse description which I could name : " Night's candles are burnt out , and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain's top . " " This passage would have been considered vile and vulgar 32 LECTURES ON.
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... whole , a severer Art . It rejects many adventitious aids . of which the Epic may avail itself . It has more unity and simplicity . It's figures stand out more boldly , and in stronger relief . But then it has no aërial background ; it ...
... whole , a severer Art . It rejects many adventitious aids . of which the Epic may avail itself . It has more unity and simplicity . It's figures stand out more boldly , and in stronger relief . But then it has no aërial background ; it ...
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... whole question , what the Epic Poet gains in expansion and variety , the Dramatic Poet gains in condensation and in- tensity . When Desdemona says to Othello , - " And yet I fear , When your eyes roll so ; " we have as vivid a portrait ...
... whole question , what the Epic Poet gains in expansion and variety , the Dramatic Poet gains in condensation and in- tensity . When Desdemona says to Othello , - " And yet I fear , When your eyes roll so ; " we have as vivid a portrait ...
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... most delightful chord of the Poet's harp ; and there is perhaps nothing in the whole range of Poetry which gives so much unmixed pleasure , as that descriptive of natural objects ; while , at the same time , 62 LECTURES ON.
... most delightful chord of the Poet's harp ; and there is perhaps nothing in the whole range of Poetry which gives so much unmixed pleasure , as that descriptive of natural objects ; while , at the same time , 62 LECTURES ON.
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Page 93 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 204 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 118 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Page 498 - And immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne: and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 370 - With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did. till...
Page 141 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Page 196 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Page xiv - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 4 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Page 198 - And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay ! And wilt thou leave me thus ? That hath loved thee so long In wealth and woe among ; And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay...