The American Eclectic, 3. kötetW.R. Peters, 1842 |
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... poets possess to diffuse their own sentiments into those of the public , and to fix the public eye on themselves ... poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " This it does among the ...
... poets possess to diffuse their own sentiments into those of the public , and to fix the public eye on themselves ... poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " This it does among the ...
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... poet , we can hardly forbear to loathe every thing which would interrupt the strains of melody that seem to have been caught near heaven's door . At the same time , it must be acknowledged that the volume contains not a little in which ...
... poet , we can hardly forbear to loathe every thing which would interrupt the strains of melody that seem to have been caught near heaven's door . At the same time , it must be acknowledged that the volume contains not a little in which ...
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... poet does not stop with the present life ; in the ' Church - yard among the Mountains , ' we are carried forward to the life beyond the grave . Our dearest hopes are indissolubly linked with the solemn words of the pray- er - book ...
... poet does not stop with the present life ; in the ' Church - yard among the Mountains , ' we are carried forward to the life beyond the grave . Our dearest hopes are indissolubly linked with the solemn words of the pray- er - book ...
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... poet was honored as almost a deity , and lorded it over the kingdom of unawakened intellect . But with the changes of time and things , there has come also a change of the mode in which the power of poetry may be efficiently exerted on ...
... poet was honored as almost a deity , and lorded it over the kingdom of unawakened intellect . But with the changes of time and things , there has come also a change of the mode in which the power of poetry may be efficiently exerted on ...
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... poetic eye , still , as it may do that without its poetry lightening and adorning that special track and way by which the Deity has willed that he should be approached by man , so it suffers the extreme peril of having its conscience ...
... poetic eye , still , as it may do that without its poetry lightening and adorning that special track and way by which the Deity has willed that he should be approached by man , so it suffers the extreme peril of having its conscience ...
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495. oldal - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, . No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
162. oldal - But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
478. oldal - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward through many troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid, or far away over boundless seas and deserts to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
479. oldal - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
399. oldal - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
330. oldal - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
480. oldal - ... urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides.
478. oldal - ... of gibraltar against the fleets and armies of france and spain the long procession was closed by the duke of norfolk earl marshal of the realm by the great dignitaries and by the brothers and sons of the king last of all came the prince of wales conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing...
328. oldal - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
480. oldal - ... comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed.