MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 56Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1887 |
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... thought of comparing the two . Each was perfect in her own way ; but each raised entirely different trains of thought in her hearers . SO Of Augustus Chard it is only neces- sary to say that he had considerable powers of organisation ...
... thought of comparing the two . Each was perfect in her own way ; but each raised entirely different trains of thought in her hearers . SO Of Augustus Chard it is only neces- sary to say that he had considerable powers of organisation ...
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... thoughts of great poets are gene- rally noble , but not easily understood by the masses . The poet , however , aims ... thought anything of his political capabilities , whereas he has earned immortality by his verses . The great man of ...
... thoughts of great poets are gene- rally noble , but not easily understood by the masses . The poet , however , aims ... thought anything of his political capabilities , whereas he has earned immortality by his verses . The great man of ...
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... thoughts like soft beseeching memories . And her dear face that seemed modelled by a Greek master out of the perfumed mist of white roses , delicate as though breathed into shape , noble beyond all thought — and the passionate eyes illu ...
... thoughts like soft beseeching memories . And her dear face that seemed modelled by a Greek master out of the perfumed mist of white roses , delicate as though breathed into shape , noble beyond all thought — and the passionate eyes illu ...
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... thoughts , humoured and rightly at- tuned by pleasant visible objects , than in all the books he had hunted through so ... thought , Germany had already vindicated its spiritual liberty . One and another of those North German towns was ...
... thoughts , humoured and rightly at- tuned by pleasant visible objects , than in all the books he had hunted through so ... thought , Germany had already vindicated its spiritual liberty . One and another of those North German towns was ...
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... thoughts were turned during those romantic , classical musings while the opera was made ready . That , in due time ... thought him a little mad , though still ready to flatter his madness , as he could detect . Alone with the doting ...
... thoughts were turned during those romantic , classical musings while the opera was made ready . That , in due time ... thought him a little mad , though still ready to flatter his madness , as he could detect . Alone with the doting ...
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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.