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... described by many poets and by nearly all modern novelists may be , it is a thing apart ; and , as such , they dealt with it . They did not ignore its existence , or even its importance , but they did not exaggerate its existence and ...
... described by many poets and by nearly all modern novelists may be , it is a thing apart ; and , as such , they dealt with it . They did not ignore its existence , or even its importance , but they did not exaggerate its existence and ...
Page 64
... described by the well - known words , " The woman did give me , and I did eat , " would almost seem to indicate that Milton's conception of woman , and his attitude towards her , were such as can be attributed to no other poet . It is ...
... described by the well - known words , " The woman did give me , and I did eat , " would almost seem to indicate that Milton's conception of woman , and his attitude towards her , were such as can be attributed to no other poet . It is ...
Page 93
... described as stopping to listen , in language similar to that of the three stanzas we have quoted ; the only slight improvement upon it being such lines as " She sees the Musician , ' tis all that BYRON AND WORDSWORTH 93.
... described as stopping to listen , in language similar to that of the three stanzas we have quoted ; the only slight improvement upon it being such lines as " She sees the Musician , ' tis all that BYRON AND WORDSWORTH 93.
Page 117
... described as " powerful " work ? We submit that it cannot . Lear is powerful . The first six books of Paradise Lost are powerful . The first four cantos of Don Juan are powerful . The Ode on Intimations of Immortality is powerful . But ...
... described as " powerful " work ? We submit that it cannot . Lear is powerful . The first six books of Paradise Lost are powerful . The first four cantos of Don Juan are powerful . The Ode on Intimations of Immortality is powerful . But ...
Page 145
... described as being so enthralled by the song - tutti fissi ed attenti - that they can think of and heed nothing else . But quickly comes another realistic touch in the reproof to the spellbound spirits not there to loiter listening to ...
... described as being so enthralled by the song - tutti fissi ed attenti - that they can think of and heed nothing else . But quickly comes another realistic touch in the reproof to the spellbound spirits not there to loiter listening to ...
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admiration Alfred de Musset Beatrice beautiful body of powerful Byron canons canto character Chaucer cheerful Childe Harold conception of Woman criticism Dante Dante's delightful disinterested lover Divina Commedia doubt dramatic English poet English poetry epic expressed feel feminine note genius hear heard heart Heaven human Ideal imagination inferior interest kind less lines literary literature Locksley Hall lover of poetry Lyrical Poetry masculine Matthew Arnold melodious mind Muse Musset nature never once opinion Paradise Lost passage passions perhaps persons Pessimism poem poet poet since Milton poet's poetic politics prose Purgatorio readers realistic Reflective Poetry Rizpah Scherer sentiment Shakespeare Shelley Siege of Corinth singing song Spenser stanzas sure sweet Swinburne sympathy tale tell tender Tennyson theme things thought true utter verse Victor Hugo Virgil Vita Nuova volume women words Wordsworth Wordsworthian write written wrote
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Page 112 - Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; 0 listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings...
Page 176 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 64 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 78 - When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to recount her poetic glories in the century which has then just ended, the first names with her will be these.
Page 44 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 17 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 113 - Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;— I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Page 64 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 36 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 6 - THERE was a roaring in the wind all night ; The rain came heavily and fell in floods ; But now the sun is rising calm and bright ; The birds are singing in the distant woods...