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... eyes , with the eyes of our head . What have we under the fair glazed pages of a modern poem ? A modern poet , who has studied and travelled , a man like Alfred de Musset , Victor Hugo , Lamartine , or Heine , in a black coat and gloves ...
... eyes , with the eyes of our head . What have we under the fair glazed pages of a modern poem ? A modern poet , who has studied and travelled , a man like Alfred de Musset , Victor Hugo , Lamartine , or Heine , in a black coat and gloves ...
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... eyes , with the eyes of our head . What have we under the fair glazed pages of a modern poem ? A modern poet , who has studied and travelled , a man like Alfred de Musset , Victor Hugo , Lamartine , or Heine , in a black coat and gloves ...
... eyes , with the eyes of our head . What have we under the fair glazed pages of a modern poem ? A modern poet , who has studied and travelled , a man like Alfred de Musset , Victor Hugo , Lamartine , or Heine , in a black coat and gloves ...
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... eyes the visible man , what do you look for ? The man invisible . The words which enter your ears , the gestures , the motions of his head , the clothes he wears , visible acts and deeds of every kind , are expressions merely ; somewhat ...
... eyes the visible man , what do you look for ? The man invisible . The words which enter your ears , the gestures , the motions of his head , the clothes he wears , visible acts and deeds of every kind , are expressions merely ; somewhat ...
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... eyes filled with the noble forms of ancient scenery , his mind penetrated by the harmonious loveliness of antique life , succeeded in reproducing so exactly in himself the peculiarities of the Greek imagination , that he gives us almost ...
... eyes filled with the noble forms of ancient scenery , his mind penetrated by the harmonious loveliness of antique life , succeeded in reproducing so exactly in himself the peculiarities of the Greek imagination , that he gives us almost ...
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... eyes and see , to see first the men that surround us and the life that is present , then the ancient and authentic documents , to read between the black and white lines of the pages , to recognise under the old impression , under the ...
... eyes and see , to see first the men that surround us and the life that is present , then the ancient and authentic documents , to read between the black and white lines of the pages , to recognise under the old impression , under the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
action amid amongst arms Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Beowulf blood Cædmon Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer Christian church civilisation comedy conscience Coriolanus Country Wife court death doth drama dream England English eyes fancy father flowers French genius give gold grace hand hath head hear heart heaven honour human Ibid ideas images imagination imitation instincts Jonson king labour lady Latin light literature living look Lord lover manners marriage married Milton mind Molière moral nature never night noble pagan painting Paradise Lost passion Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Puritan race reason religion Renaissance Robert Wace Saxon says Sejanus sentiment Shakspeare sing song soul speak spirit style sweet sword taste thee Thierry and Theodoret things thou thought tion trouvères verse voice Volpone whole wife woman words writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 450 - And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Página 370 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Página 302 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still ; The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Página 268 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 370 - Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent ; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 337 - O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew ! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God ! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! ah fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Página 429 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 158 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 436 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast...
Página 451 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...