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... ; this is not the time to relate the truth . ' I for my part could wish , I repeat , that that time had never come . But come it has , and Professor Dowden has given us the Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley in two very VII 207 SHELLEY.
... ; this is not the time to relate the truth . ' I for my part could wish , I repeat , that that time had never come . But come it has , and Professor Dowden has given us the Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley in two very VII 207 SHELLEY.
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... Professor Dowden holds a brief for Shelley ; he pleads for Shelley as an advocate pleads for his client , and this strain of pleading , united with an attitude of adoration which in Mrs. Shelley had its charm , but which Professor Dow ...
... Professor Dowden holds a brief for Shelley ; he pleads for Shelley as an advocate pleads for his client , and this strain of pleading , united with an attitude of adoration which in Mrs. Shelley had its charm , but which Professor Dow ...
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... Professor Dowden improve the occasion as follows ? ' The most romantic of northern cities could lay no spell upon his spirit . His eye was not fascinated by the presences of mountains and the sea , by the fantastic outlines of aërial ...
... Professor Dowden improve the occasion as follows ? ' The most romantic of northern cities could lay no spell upon his spirit . His eye was not fascinated by the presences of mountains and the sea , by the fantastic outlines of aërial ...
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... Professor Dowden , ' that Shelley's happiness in his home had been fatally stricken . ' This is a curious way of putting the matter . To Q me what is evident is rather that Shelley had , VII 225 SHELLEY.
... Professor Dowden , ' that Shelley's happiness in his home had been fatally stricken . ' This is a curious way of putting the matter . To Q me what is evident is rather that Shelley had , VII 225 SHELLEY.
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... Professor Dowden's words again for in these things of high sentiment I gladly let him speak for me - ' a too vivid sense that here ( in the society of the Boinville family ) were peace and joy and gentleness and love . ' In April come ...
... Professor Dowden's words again for in these things of high sentiment I gladly let him speak for me - ' a too vivid sense that here ( in the society of the Boinville family ) were peace and joy and gentleness and love . ' In April come ...
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Page 47 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 65 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 200 - He heard it, but he heeded not ; his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 28 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Page 49 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 19 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 18 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 176 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain...
Page 157 - Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish; or must hang Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities — may these sounds Have their authentic comment; that even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn!
Page 33 - It is the spoudaiotes, the high and excellent seriousness, which Aristotle assigns as one of the grand virtues of poetry. The substance of Chaucer's poetry, his view of things and his criticism of life, has largeness, freedom, shrewdness, benignity; but it has not this high seriousness. Homer's criticism of life has it, Dante's has it, Shakespeare's has it. It is this chiefly which gives to our spirits what they can rest upon; and with the increasing...