The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal ..., Volumen10J. Ridgeway and sons, 1840 |
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... poem itself indeed we attach no importance , neither do we believe it will find many readers . It belongs essentially to the past , and to a past with which the world will not readily again sympathise , even should the opinions and ...
... poem itself indeed we attach no importance , neither do we believe it will find many readers . It belongs essentially to the past , and to a past with which the world will not readily again sympathise , even should the opinions and ...
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... poem , the immaturity of the feelings and knowledge with which it was written , the season of life at which it was pro- duced . Another subject of regret , however , has not been removed ; and of the little that can ever be related of a ...
... poem , the immaturity of the feelings and knowledge with which it was written , the season of life at which it was pro- duced . Another subject of regret , however , has not been removed ; and of the little that can ever be related of a ...
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... poems were composed , the necessity of selection and condensation . But it is probable that many portions of the Prometheus and the Revolt of Islam , which were less plea- sing to contemporary readers from the injudicious mixture of ...
... poems were composed , the necessity of selection and condensation . But it is probable that many portions of the Prometheus and the Revolt of Islam , which were less plea- sing to contemporary readers from the injudicious mixture of ...
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... poems were composed , the necessity of selection and condensation . But it is probable that many portions of the Prometheus and the Revolt of Islam , which were less plea- sing to contemporary readers from the injudicious mixture of ...
... poems were composed , the necessity of selection and condensation . But it is probable that many portions of the Prometheus and the Revolt of Islam , which were less plea- sing to contemporary readers from the injudicious mixture of ...
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... poem is the base- less fabric of a Saturnian age : Alastor , but in a better spirit than Childe Harold , is the poet's inner - being impersonated , and brought into immediate contact with nature under her manifold vicissitudes of repose ...
... poem is the base- less fabric of a Saturnian age : Alastor , but in a better spirit than Childe Harold , is the poet's inner - being impersonated , and brought into immediate contact with nature under her manifold vicissitudes of repose ...
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Página 99 - mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean, Angels of rain and lightning! there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, ev'n from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height — The locks of the approaching storm.
Página 103 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Página 105 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear ; Torturing th...
Página 105 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
Página 291 - The RIGHT OF NATURE, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgment, and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.
Página 100 - The sunbeams are my shafts, with which I kill Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day; All men who do or even imagine ill Fly me, and from the glory of my ray Good minds and open actions take new might. Until diminished by the reign of night.
Página 98 - I stood within the city disinterred ; And heard the autumnal leaves, like light footfalls Of spirits passing through the streets ; and heard The mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls...
Página 447 - I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause.
Página 464 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die : Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord 1 or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 137 - I have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 8th inst.