Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon TalfourdCarey and Hart, 1846 - 172 pages |
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... imaginations beyond their former compass , yet so human that they make our hearts gush with delight ; he disco- vers ... imagination seems to have been chilled by the manners of the Norman conquerors . The domestic contests for the ...
... imaginations beyond their former compass , yet so human that they make our hearts gush with delight ; he disco- vers ... imagination seems to have been chilled by the manners of the Norman conquerors . The domestic contests for the ...
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... imagination like a radiant vision encircled with celestial glories . The stories introduced in it are delightful exceptions to the usual rule by which such incidental tales are properly regarded as impertinent intrusions . That of David ...
... imagination like a radiant vision encircled with celestial glories . The stories introduced in it are delightful exceptions to the usual rule by which such incidental tales are properly regarded as impertinent intrusions . That of David ...
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... imagination shall vanish , and the tion of that beauty which we never cease to feel . How natural and tear - moving is the letter of Savillon to his friend , describing the scenes of his early love , and recalling , with intense ...
... imagination shall vanish , and the tion of that beauty which we never cease to feel . How natural and tear - moving is the letter of Savillon to his friend , describing the scenes of his early love , and recalling , with intense ...
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... imagination an introspective cast , to perplex it with metaphysical subtleties , and to render our poetry " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought . " The genius of our country was thus in danger of being perverted from its purest ...
... imagination an introspective cast , to perplex it with metaphysical subtleties , and to render our poetry " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought . " The genius of our country was thus in danger of being perverted from its purest ...
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... imagination , has arrayed them . They are peopled not with the shapes of old superstition , but with the shadows of the poet's thought , the dreams of a glory that shall be . They are resonant - not with the voice of birds , or the soft ...
... imagination , has arrayed them . They are peopled not with the shapes of old superstition , but with the shadows of the poet's thought , the dreams of a glory that shall be . They are resonant - not with the voice of birds , or the soft ...
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Page 155 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire - that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Page 56 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 56 - 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.
Page 155 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Page 78 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 12 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 56 - I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 55 - Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 55 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering...
Page 154 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.