Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... hand . There is warrant for it . " Poets alone have not " such seething brains , such shaping fantasies , that apprehend more than cooler reason " can . 66 " The lunatic , the lover , and the poet Are of imagination all compact . One ...
... hand . There is warrant for it . " Poets alone have not " such seething brains , such shaping fantasies , that apprehend more than cooler reason " can . 66 " The lunatic , the lover , and the poet Are of imagination all compact . One ...
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... hands , and weep like a child . Sometimes it would take me in the middle of my work , and I would immediately sit down and sigh , and look upon the ground for an hour or two together , and this was still worse to me , for if I could ...
... hands , and weep like a child . Sometimes it would take me in the middle of my work , and I would immediately sit down and sigh , and look upon the ground for an hour or two together , and this was still worse to me , for if I could ...
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... hand is suspended over it . The spirit of the Christian religion consists in the glory here- after to be revealed ; but in the Hebrew dispensa- tion , Providence took an immediate share in the affairs of this life . Jacob's dream arose ...
... hand is suspended over it . The spirit of the Christian religion consists in the glory here- after to be revealed ; but in the Hebrew dispensa- tion , Providence took an immediate share in the affairs of this life . Jacob's dream arose ...
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... hand of age , as the tale of other times , passes over them , to sigh and rustle like the dry reeds in the winter's wind ! The feeling of cheerless deso- lation , of the loss of the pith and sap of existence , of the annihilation of the ...
... hand of age , as the tale of other times , passes over them , to sigh and rustle like the dry reeds in the winter's wind ! The feeling of cheerless deso- lation , of the loss of the pith and sap of existence , of the annihilation of the ...
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... hand and lost his life in the combat : " Alas the wo ! alas the peines stronge , That I for you have suffered , and so longe ! Alas the deth ! alas min Emilie ! Alas departing of our compagnie ; Alas min hertes quene ! alas my wif ! Min ...
... hand and lost his life in the combat : " Alas the wo ! alas the peines stronge , That I for you have suffered , and so longe ! Alas the deth ! alas min Emilie ! Alas departing of our compagnie ; Alas min hertes quene ! alas my wif ! Min ...
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.