The Diary of an Ennuyée: From the Last London Ed

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Ticknor, 1860 - 341 oldal
 

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270. oldal - Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
97. oldal - ... Thus I sit — And when most quiet — cold — or silent — then Even then, I feel each word, each look, each tone! There's not an accent of that tender voice, There's not a day-beam of those sunbright eyes, Nor passing smile, nor melancholy grace, Nor thought half utter'd, feeling half...
340. oldal - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
251. oldal - Producing change of beauty ever new. —Ah ! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his mind recorded it with love!
106. oldal - And daily lose what I desire to keep : Yet rather would I instantly decline To the traditionary sympathies Of a most rustic ignorance, and take A fearful apprehension from the owl Or death-watch : and as readily rejoice, If two auspicious magpies crossed my way ; — To this would rather bend than see and hear The repetitions wearisome of sense, Where soul is dead, and feeling hath no place...
264. oldal - Yes! when the sun of life more feebly shines, Becoming thoughts, I trust, of solemn gloom Or of high gladness you shall hither bring; And these perennial bowers and murmuring pines Be gracious as the music and the bloom And all the mighty ravishment of Spring.
199. oldal - Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.
71. oldal - The great poetical genius of our own times has openly alienated himself from the land of his brothers.
284. oldal - s hand. 0 perjur'd woman ! thou dost stone my heart, And mak'st me call what I intend to do A murder, which I thought a sacrifice : 1 saw the handkerchief.
247. oldal - On a fair prospect some have looked And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

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