Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writing, Volume 3W. & R. Chambers, 1903 - Authors, English |
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... wrote with such astonishing prosaic brilliance . This is one of the reasons why he bulks so largely among the poets of the Renascence of Wonder . For this renascence was shown not merely in the way in which Man's mysterious destiny was ...
... wrote with such astonishing prosaic brilliance . This is one of the reasons why he bulks so largely among the poets of the Renascence of Wonder . For this renascence was shown not merely in the way in which Man's mysterious destiny was ...
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... wrote far too much , and was often unhappy in his choice of subjects . One book alone by him , the Life of Nelson , belongs to universal literature . It rose into instant and universal favour , and is still considered as one of our ...
... wrote far too much , and was often unhappy in his choice of subjects . One book alone by him , the Life of Nelson , belongs to universal literature . It rose into instant and universal favour , and is still considered as one of our ...
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... wrote The Ancient Mariner , the first part of Christabel , and almost all his greater poems . Here , too , grew and flourished his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth , which led to their settling ( July 1797 ) at the ...
... wrote The Ancient Mariner , the first part of Christabel , and almost all his greater poems . Here , too , grew and flourished his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth , which led to their settling ( July 1797 ) at the ...
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... wrote Dejection , an Ode 4th April 1802 ) , which has been called the swan- song of his Muse . In November - December he visited South Wales as the travelling companion of his munificent co - patron ' Tom Wedgwood ; and once again in ...
... wrote Dejection , an Ode 4th April 1802 ) , which has been called the swan- song of his Muse . In November - December he visited South Wales as the travelling companion of his munificent co - patron ' Tom Wedgwood ; and once again in ...
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... wrote a few poems , half - a - dozen more or less , of supreme excel- lence , and that he did no more . It is true that Coleridge at his best is immeasurably greater than at his second best ; but , if we except his juvenilia , he wrote ...
... wrote a few poems , half - a - dozen more or less , of supreme excel- lence , and that he did no more . It is true that Coleridge at his best is immeasurably greater than at his second best ; but , if we except his juvenilia , he wrote ...
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Page 428 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 25 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 105 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Page 139 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 145 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 104 - O for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora...
Page 116 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 67 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 104 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 17 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.