The Poetry of Life, Volume 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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... faculty of adaptation to all circumstances and states of being , which renders love so entirely sub- servient to the purposes of the poet ; because it takes the tone of the times , as well as that of individual character , and ...
... faculty of adaptation to all circumstances and states of being , which renders love so entirely sub- servient to the purposes of the poet ; because it takes the tone of the times , as well as that of individual character , and ...
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... faculty of the soul . Of all the distinctive characters assumed by grief , from simple sadness to wild despair , melancholy is the most poetical , because while it operates as a stimu- lant to the imagination , its influence is so ...
... faculty of the soul . Of all the distinctive characters assumed by grief , from simple sadness to wild despair , melancholy is the most poetical , because while it operates as a stimu- lant to the imagination , its influence is so ...
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... faculty awakened in it , is that of receiving impressions ; a power considerably heightened and increased by the total suspension of its active operations . But it is to trifles alone that this power is applied - to things of no ...
... faculty awakened in it , is that of receiving impressions ; a power considerably heightened and increased by the total suspension of its active operations . But it is to trifles alone that this power is applied - to things of no ...
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... shadow in a weary land , " it could not be an object upon which the eye would linger with delight , or the excursive faculty of imagi- nation find food and exercise . The lightest bird that 5 * THE POETRY OF WOMAN . 53.
... shadow in a weary land , " it could not be an object upon which the eye would linger with delight , or the excursive faculty of imagi- nation find food and exercise . The lightest bird that 5 * THE POETRY OF WOMAN . 53.
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... faculty most essential to the poet , which women possess in so great a degree , that its very exuberance of growth prevents the ripening of those rich fruits of which its profusion of early blossom gives deceitful promise . The ...
... faculty most essential to the poet , which women possess in so great a degree , that its very exuberance of growth prevents the ripening of those rich fruits of which its profusion of early blossom gives deceitful promise . The ...
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Page 32 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 156 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 169 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 82 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Page 102 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Page 89 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 153 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Page 101 - The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 176 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 170 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.