The Living Authors of EnglandD. Appleton & Company, 1849 - 316 oldal |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 45 találatból.
26. oldal
... for ink , with human bones for type ! We do not mention these great excitements as detracting from the poetical claims of the poets of the revolutionary era , but as merely accounting for the fact of their appearance 26 BRITISH WRITERS .
... for ink , with human bones for type ! We do not mention these great excitements as detracting from the poetical claims of the poets of the revolutionary era , but as merely accounting for the fact of their appearance 26 BRITISH WRITERS .
27. oldal
Thomas Powell. but as merely accounting for the fact of their appearance . From the time of Shakspere , -when the nation had just been roused by the overthrow of the spiritual despotism of Rome , down to the epoch of Coleridge , the ...
Thomas Powell. but as merely accounting for the fact of their appearance . From the time of Shakspere , -when the nation had just been roused by the overthrow of the spiritual despotism of Rome , down to the epoch of Coleridge , the ...
30. oldal
... appearance of a want of intellectual power ; his voice is peculiar and soft ; he sings a lively song , and accompanies himself on the piano or seraphine with much spirit and grace ; abounds with pleasant anecdote , and is fond of ...
... appearance of a want of intellectual power ; his voice is peculiar and soft ; he sings a lively song , and accompanies himself on the piano or seraphine with much spirit and grace ; abounds with pleasant anecdote , and is fond of ...
32. oldal
... appeared at a time when it took very little to make a poetical name . Had he lived in later days he would cer- tainly have only achieved a seat on the second form . Next after Wordsworth , Walter Savage Landor is undoubtedly the most ...
... appeared at a time when it took very little to make a poetical name . Had he lived in later days he would cer- tainly have only achieved a seat on the second form . Next after Wordsworth , Walter Savage Landor is undoubtedly the most ...
36. oldal
... appeared in the world of poetry alone . A thin volume , to be sure some one hundred and twenty pages , but it was the fine point of a wedge which has gradually opened the world to him . It is needless to dwell upon the want of sympathy ...
... appeared in the world of poetry alone . A thin volume , to be sure some one hundred and twenty pages , but it was the fine point of a wedge which has gradually opened the world to him . It is needless to dwell upon the want of sympathy ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
admirable Adrastus ALFRED DOMETT Alfred Tennyson American appeared asked BARRY CORNWALL beauty Browning Browning's called calm Carlyle Caudle celebrated character Clovernook critic dead death delight Dickens divine Douglas Jerrold drama dramatist dream Dudley Costello earth EDWARD MOXON England English eyes face feel Fergus O'Connor genius give grace hand hear heard heart heaven hero honor hope Horne human Jerrold labor lady Leigh Hunt light living London look Lord Macready manner mind Miss Barrett nature never night o'er Oliver Twist Paracelsus pass passages passion peculiar play poem poet poet's poetical poetry Prichard readers Robert Browning scene seems Shakspere Shakspere's sketch smile solemn sonnet Sordello soul specimen spirit style sweet Talfourd tell Tennyson thee thing THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH thou thought tion tragedy true truth turned verse voice volume wife words Wordsworth writing young
Népszerű szakaszok
132. oldal - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
53. oldal - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
52. oldal - ; And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam.
42. oldal - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. 'An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. 'He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
52. oldal - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
76. oldal - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy: You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two.
189. oldal - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
241. oldal - Eternity, and some gleam of the latter peering through. 'Highest of all Symbols are those wherein the Artist or Poet has risen into Prophet, and all men can recognise a present God, and worship the same: I mean religious Symbols.
82. oldal - All service ranks the same with God: If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no last nor first.
137. oldal - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.