Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... truth . This was an age of loyalty , adventure , and generous emulation . The chivalrous character was softened by intellectual pursuits , while the genius of chivalry itself still lingered , as if unwill- ing to depart ; and paid his ...
... truth . This was an age of loyalty , adventure , and generous emulation . The chivalrous character was softened by intellectual pursuits , while the genius of chivalry itself still lingered , as if unwill- ing to depart ; and paid his ...
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... truth and the dignity of virtue , and he would have despised artifice , when he had felt the strength and security of wisdom . In estimating the promises of his genius , I would rather lean to the utmost enthusiasm of his admirers ...
... truth and the dignity of virtue , and he would have despised artifice , when he had felt the strength and security of wisdom . In estimating the promises of his genius , I would rather lean to the utmost enthusiasm of his admirers ...
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... truth . His language has such a masculine idiomatic strength , and his manner , whether he rises into grace or falls into negligence , has so much plain and familiar freedom , that we read no poetry with a deeper convic- tion of its ...
... truth . His language has such a masculine idiomatic strength , and his manner , whether he rises into grace or falls into negligence , has so much plain and familiar freedom , that we read no poetry with a deeper convic- tion of its ...
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... truth and reality . " He is one of the few poets , who have indulged neither in descrip- tions nor acknowledgments of the passion of love ; but there is no poet who has given us a finer conception of the amenity of female influence . Of ...
... truth and reality . " He is one of the few poets , who have indulged neither in descrip- tions nor acknowledgments of the passion of love ; but there is no poet who has given us a finer conception of the amenity of female influence . Of ...
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... truth , and even elegance . She begins with asking him why he changes countenance so suddenly . He answers- 66 Who , I ? For nothing . Sus . Dear , say not so : a spirit of your constancy Cannot endure this change for nothing . I've ...
... truth , and even elegance . She begins with asking him why he changes countenance so suddenly . He answers- 66 Who , I ? For nothing . Sus . Dear , say not so : a spirit of your constancy Cannot endure this change for nothing . I've ...
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Page 381 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 462 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, — But let us part fair foes ; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, — hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing ; I would also deem O'er others...
Page 453 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 464 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Page 73 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east...
Page 158 - His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun
Page 460 - This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring . Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night...
Page 80 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 193 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 139 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.