Literary: Goethe and his influence. Wordsworth and his genius. Shelley's poetical mysticism. Mr. Browning. The poetry of the Old Testament. Arthur Hugh Clough. The poetry of Matthew Arnold Tennyson. Nathaniel HawthorneMacmillan, 1880 |
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... seem to be equally characteristic . Johann Wolfgang Goethe , born at noon on the 28th August , 1749 , in Frankfort - on - the - Maine , seems to have inherited his genial , sensitive , sensuous , and joyous tem- perament from his mother ...
... seem to be equally characteristic . Johann Wolfgang Goethe , born at noon on the 28th August , 1749 , in Frankfort - on - the - Maine , seems to have inherited his genial , sensitive , sensuous , and joyous tem- perament from his mother ...
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... seems to have had at least as much humour as her son , which , for Germans , was not inconsiderable , and not much more sense of awe . She gave the most detailed orders for her own funeral , and even specified the kind of wine and the ...
... seems to have had at least as much humour as her son , which , for Germans , was not inconsiderable , and not much more sense of awe . She gave the most detailed orders for her own funeral , and even specified the kind of wine and the ...
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... seems to me real tenderness here . He was a proud man , who had drawn back into himself , at the first repulse , from civic politics ; and was hardly reconciled to his son's adhesion to the Weimar Court , because he dreaded lest some ...
... seems to me real tenderness here . He was a proud man , who had drawn back into himself , at the first repulse , from civic politics ; and was hardly reconciled to his son's adhesion to the Weimar Court , because he dreaded lest some ...
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... seems to have had none of the ordinary childish shame and self - reproach connected with the adventure ; -his favourite puppets were always dearer to him because of the " French - plum " fragrance which they had acquired in the scene of ...
... seems to have had none of the ordinary childish shame and self - reproach connected with the adventure ; -his favourite puppets were always dearer to him because of the " French - plum " fragrance which they had acquired in the scene of ...
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... seems to me , a satire upon the Hegelian practice of deducing everything out of " the pure nothing , " by what may be called the tripartite cork - screw philosophy , which does everything in logical triplets , but winds itself a little ...
... seems to me , a satire upon the Hegelian practice of deducing everything out of " the pure nothing , " by what may be called the tripartite cork - screw philosophy , which does everything in logical triplets , but winds itself a little ...
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Page 115 - 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 116 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 105 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death...
Page 226 - For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Page 220 - And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of « cloud, to lead them the way ; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light ; to go by day and night : He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Page 149 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 216 - They fought from heaven ; The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The river of Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon.
Page 88 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 217 - Curse ye Meroz,' said the angel of the Lord, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; Because they came not to the help of the Lord, To the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 204 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit ? or whither shall I go then from thy presence ? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there ; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.