Poems, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 |
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... prose . What feats would I work with my magical hand ! Book - learning and books should be banished the land : And for hunger and thirst and such troublesome calls Every Ale - house should then have a feast on its walls . The Traveller ...
... prose . What feats would I work with my magical hand ! Book - learning and books should be banished the land : And for hunger and thirst and such troublesome calls Every Ale - house should then have a feast on its walls . The Traveller ...
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... prose . I have proposed to myself to imitate , and , as far as is possible , to adopt the very language of men ; and assuredly such per- sonifications do not make any natural or regular part of that language . They are , indeed , a ...
... prose . I have proposed to myself to imitate , and , as far as is possible , to adopt the very language of men ; and assuredly such per- sonifications do not make any natural or regular part of that language . They are , indeed , a ...
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... prose , there is a numerous class of critics , who , when they stumble upon these prosaisms , as they call them , imagine that they have made a notable discovery , and exult over the Poet as over a man ignorant of his own pro- fession ...
... prose , there is a numerous class of critics , who , when they stumble upon these prosaisms , as they call them , imagine that they have made a notable discovery , and exult over the Poet as over a man ignorant of his own pro- fession ...
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... prose , when prose is well written . The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical writings , even of Milton himself . I have not space for much quotation ; but , to illustrate ...
... prose , when prose is well written . The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical writings , even of Milton himself . I have not space for much quotation ; but , to illustrate ...
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... Prose . I will go further . I do not doubt that it may be safely af- firmed , that there neither is , nor can be , any essential differ- ence between the language of prose and metrical composi tion . We are fond of tracing the ...
... Prose . I will go further . I do not doubt that it may be safely af- firmed , that there neither is , nor can be , any essential differ- ence between the language of prose and metrical composi tion . We are fond of tracing the ...
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Page 212 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour ; .England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 355 - To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks, which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they...
Page 191 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 338 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Page 381 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 105 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: — We murder to dissect.
Page 80 - Unwearied in that service : rather say With warmer love — oh ! with far deeper zeal Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake ! LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
Page 30 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Page 354 - 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 352 - Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage; thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find...