"Excelsior" Or The Realms of Poesie

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Pickering, 1852 - 148 páginas
 

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Página iv - Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" And loud th,at clarion voice replied, Excelsior! "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Página 42 - ... and perfecute us. This is the defcription that our Saviour gives us of this duty, and the greateft objection againft the practice of it arifes from the vaft difficulty that is fuppofed to attend it. Many have gone fo far as to fay it might be performed by an holy Apoftle...
Página 131 - ... gathering fulness and force as they go, and pour through and fertilize the broad valleys of humanity, where their rich beneficial effects are chiefly and more extensively visible. So with the once thin streamlet of Christianity; and so with all great teachings since time began. So also, with each individual mind, which is a minute representative, in its spiritual wanderings, backslidings, and aspirations, of the ages of the world.
Página 29 - If a man bo gracious to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.
Página 77 - ... unto us by his fon, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom alfo he made the worlds,
Página xi - Portaits" (whose painter, by-the-way, had patted " Alastor" benignantly on the back) form a " waving forest of grand imagery;" and goes on to say, " no praise of mine could touch the pale of that awful Sinai, whose grand imagery hangs over and folds around it, even as that dread mountain when it shook with the thunder and lightnings of the immediate Godhead; I allude to those grand outpourings of a majestic soul to the eternal, whose crystal floods are gathered within his last great work,
Página 41 - ... and bears on its pinions the angel of death ! Thus, then, did LEL...
Página 55 - World let its moft loving and feeling fon die in fuch utter poverty ? Hood's poems of wit are the...
Página 55 - ... ever written. Who, knowing even his well-known " Song of the Shirt," and
Página 55 - Sighs," can ever ceafe to deluge his name with endearing epithets ? Our tears flow, and we become all heart ! Let the...

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