Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Volumes 1-4Scotzniovsky, 1858 |
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Page 11
... never till now found so open an utterance . More than one party of Americans in Europe ( albeit it might consist of more than a bachelor uncle and his nephew ) has held such a conversation as Hugh and Roger held in Paris . More than one ...
... never till now found so open an utterance . More than one party of Americans in Europe ( albeit it might consist of more than a bachelor uncle and his nephew ) has held such a conversation as Hugh and Roger held in Paris . More than one ...
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... never been guilty of original poetry , but his Specimens from the Classics are some of the best translations For obvious reasons we confine ourselves to English translators extant . Equally innocent is Carlyle , whose versions of 13.
... never been guilty of original poetry , but his Specimens from the Classics are some of the best translations For obvious reasons we confine ourselves to English translators extant . Equally innocent is Carlyle , whose versions of 13.
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... never be popular . The editor of the - will be glad to hear that Sotheby's translation has been published - some twelve years ago . It professed to combine Pope's elegance with Cowper's accuracy . How far this attempt was successful the ...
... never be popular . The editor of the - will be glad to hear that Sotheby's translation has been published - some twelve years ago . It professed to combine Pope's elegance with Cowper's accuracy . How far this attempt was successful the ...
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... never draw To earth from heaven , toil adverse as ye may . Yet I , when once I shall be pleased to pull , The earth itself , itself the sea , and you Will lift with ease together , and will wind The chain around the spiry summit sharp ...
... never draw To earth from heaven , toil adverse as ye may . Yet I , when once I shall be pleased to pull , The earth itself , itself the sea , and you Will lift with ease together , and will wind The chain around the spiry summit sharp ...
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... never would your utmost labor move The strength invincible of Jove supreme . But when my sovereign will would draw that chain , With ease I lift it , e'en with earth itself And sea itself appended ! Firmly then , I bind it , round ...
... never would your utmost labor move The strength invincible of Jove supreme . But when my sovereign will would draw that chain , With ease I lift it , e'en with earth itself And sea itself appended ! Firmly then , I bind it , round ...
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Page 188 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost. And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open untD me.
Page 174 - OF old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet : Above her shook the starry lights : She heard the torrents meet. There in her place she did rejoice, Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind, But fragments of her mighty voice Came rolling on the wind. Then stept she down thro...
Page 188 - ... font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake : So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.
Page 189 - Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Page 207 - Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Page 189 - ... whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who...
Page 174 - LOVE thou thy land, with love far brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Through future time by power of thought.
Page 45 - Join all, and try the omnipotence of Jove : Let down our golden, everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main: Strive all, of mortal, and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth Ye strive in vain ! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight!
Page 15 - With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 260 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.