Periods of European Literature, Volume 10C. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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... ideal Lucy . And it is in them that , if we except the Tintern lines and one or two of the nature- poems in Lyrical Ballads , his genius first shows itself in its full strength ; unshackled by the defiant theory 1 It is to be found in ...
... ideal Lucy . And it is in them that , if we except the Tintern lines and one or two of the nature- poems in Lyrical Ballads , his genius first shows itself in its full strength ; unshackled by the defiant theory 1 It is to be found in ...
Página 62
... ideal . Poems of nature . But it is time to return to the third and last group of poems contained in the Lyrical Ballads , the poems of nature . In this field , it need hardly be said , Words worth is at least as original as in his ...
... ideal . Poems of nature . But it is time to return to the third and last group of poems contained in the Lyrical Ballads , the poems of nature . In this field , it need hardly be said , Words worth is at least as original as in his ...
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... ideal of human nature . Both in its source and in its motive power it rested on action and on fact . It was the deeds of the moss- troopers , the clash and strain of Border warfare , that first stirred his imagination . And , though in ...
... ideal of human nature . Both in its source and in its motive power it rested on action and on fact . It was the deeds of the moss- troopers , the clash and strain of Border warfare , that first stirred his imagination . And , though in ...
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... ideal ; an ideal which it required greater genius than hers to attain . Mackenzie stands somewhat apart among the novelists of the time ; and he does so , because he combines tendencies which hitherto Mackenzie . had existed in ...
... ideal ; an ideal which it required greater genius than hers to attain . Mackenzie stands somewhat apart among the novelists of the time ; and he does so , because he combines tendencies which hitherto Mackenzie . had existed in ...
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... ideal to a host of subsequent novelists . But it is an ideal which Mrs Gaskell alone , in Cranford and Wives and Daughters , has been able to attain . George Eliot might be cited as a further instance . But there is so much beside this ...
... ideal to a host of subsequent novelists . But it is an ideal which Mrs Gaskell alone , in Cranford and Wives and Daughters , has been able to attain . George Eliot might be cited as a further instance . But there is so much beside this ...
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Página 32 - The wan moon is setting behind the white wave, And time is setting with me, Oh...
Página 59 - ... be so, I would willingly take all reasonable pains to correct. But it is dangerous to make these alterations on the simple authority of a few individuals, or even of certain classes of men; for where the understanding of an author is not convinced...
Página 35 - I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy, and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air, with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade...
Página 156 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Página 131 - ... frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of...
Página 228 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Página 74 - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in "Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Página 131 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
Página 415 - the air of this country did not agree with " you, and we are not yet reduced to seek " for models amongst the people you admire. " Your last work is not French ; it is I " who have put a stop to the publication of