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... death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting - place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart . They have ...
... death . But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting - place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart . They have ...
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... death , and broods over the silent air . He is the severest of all writers , the most hard and im- penetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own power , and the sense of it in others , and who ...
... death , and broods over the silent air . He is the severest of all writers , the most hard and im- penetrable , the most opposite to the flowery and glittering ; who relies most on his own power , and the sense of it in others , and who ...
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... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves : " - or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : - - " Have ye not seen somtime a pale face ( ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 43.
... come rushing in the greves , And breking bothe the boughes and the leves : " - or that still finer one of Constance , when she is condemned to death : - - " Have ye not seen somtime a pale face ( ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 43.
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... death , still triumphed in his song . Chaucer has more of this deep , internal , sustained sentiment , than any other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub ...
... death , still triumphed in his song . Chaucer has more of this deep , internal , sustained sentiment , than any other writer , except Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and inten- sity of conception , never swerving from his sub ...
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... death of Arcite is the more affecting as it comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of ...
... death of Arcite is the more affecting as it comes after triumph and victory , after the pomp of sacrifice , the solemnities of prayer , the celebra- tion of the gorgeous rites of chivalry . The de- scriptions of the three temples of ...
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Page 328 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder A dreary sea now flows between ; — But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 123 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 305 - Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
Page 145 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 10 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 126 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 114 - ... 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 185 - Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 228 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 153 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring...