MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 56Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1887 |
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... Heine , for one - then Pascal , and Plato , and - let me see , I think Pico della Mirandola would be nice , and I should be curious to see Giordano Bruno- " " " A conceited , blaspheming fool ! " exclaimed Augustus , speaking for the ...
... Heine , for one - then Pascal , and Plato , and - let me see , I think Pico della Mirandola would be nice , and I should be curious to see Giordano Bruno- " " " A conceited , blaspheming fool ! " exclaimed Augustus , speaking for the ...
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... Heine . You see I did well to give you a word of explanation . I am quite harmless : indeed I always was . ' 66 " " ' My dear sir , " said Augustus , " I have too long been accustomed to expect the unusual in Nature to be startled at it ...
... Heine . You see I did well to give you a word of explanation . I am quite harmless : indeed I always was . ' 66 " " ' My dear sir , " said Augustus , " I have too long been accustomed to expect the unusual in Nature to be startled at it ...
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... Heine sat in the midst of the group . Saving his antiquated dress , there was nothing in his appearance to distinguish him from his living hosts . Augustus alone had felt the icy chill of his hand . " This is almost as good as life ...
... Heine sat in the midst of the group . Saving his antiquated dress , there was nothing in his appearance to distinguish him from his living hosts . Augustus alone had felt the icy chill of his hand . " This is almost as good as life ...
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... Heine , with that wonderful smile which drew strange angles about his sensitive mouth , " that if it were still in my power to make verses I would not laugh at my old trade . But the grapes which hang too high are eternally green - as ...
... Heine , with that wonderful smile which drew strange angles about his sensitive mouth , " that if it were still in my power to make verses I would not laugh at my old trade . But the grapes which hang too high are eternally green - as ...
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... Heine . " It is even worse when you reflect that there is not more than one good poet in a thousand million poets of all kinds , any more than you will find two wise men in a milliard of puckery peppery self - satisfied scientists . It ...
... Heine . " It is even worse when you reflect that there is not more than one good poet in a thousand million poets of all kinds , any more than you will find two wise men in a milliard of puckery peppery self - satisfied scientists . It ...
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Page 432 - Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes...
Page 352 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 87 - My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good; But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?
Page 420 - And in far other scenes! For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 185 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 352 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 83 - Tis of a little child Upon a lonesome wild, Not far from home, but she hath lost her way: And now moans low in bitter grief and fear, And now screams loud, and hopes to make her mother hear.
Page 81 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Page 82 - Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.
Page 85 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.