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... . In tender and profound feeling , and in Hyperion ; a Romance . By the Author of " Outre - Mer . " New York : Samuel Colman . 12mo , 2 vols . , pp . 213 and 226 . brilliancy of imagery , the work will bear a comparison INTRODUCTION . vii.
... . In tender and profound feeling , and in Hyperion ; a Romance . By the Author of " Outre - Mer . " New York : Samuel Colman . 12mo , 2 vols . , pp . 213 and 226 . brilliancy of imagery , the work will bear a comparison INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... feelings , scenery , and illustration , are drawn from the regions of romantic sentiment and poetry . Two paths lay open to the author . He m have constructed a romance which should have represented the romantic viii INTRODUCTION .
... feelings , scenery , and illustration , are drawn from the regions of romantic sentiment and poetry . Two paths lay open to the author . He m have constructed a romance which should have represented the romantic viii INTRODUCTION .
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... feeling of fresh delight in the English heart . In short , the old romantic tincture , -the Saxon colouring , -which had been stamped on English literature ages before , began to reappear , and the cumbrous phraseology of Johnson and ...
... feeling of fresh delight in the English heart . In short , the old romantic tincture , -the Saxon colouring , -which had been stamped on English literature ages before , began to reappear , and the cumbrous phraseology of Johnson and ...
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... feelings , which belong more to German than to English poetry , are perceptible in the general tone of the work ; and that this sentimentality occasionally transcends the bounds of English reserve . Nor are we prepared to vindicate the ...
... feelings , which belong more to German than to English poetry , are perceptible in the general tone of the work ; and that this sentimentality occasionally transcends the bounds of English reserve . Nor are we prepared to vindicate the ...
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... feelings are too ethereal to be readily grasped by minds intent upon the exciting themes of the day . The impassioned part of the romance partakes of the same general character . It is a book for minds attuned to senti- ments of ...
... feelings are too ethereal to be readily grasped by minds intent upon the exciting themes of the day . The impassioned part of the romance partakes of the same general character . It is a book for minds attuned to senti- ments of ...
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Página 269 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 283 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 469 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 291 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Página 276 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Página 278 - A. soul sheathed in a crystal shrine, Through which all her bright features shine ; As when a piece of wanton lawn, A thin...
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