Periods of European Literature, Volume 10C. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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... qualities of which his poetry had hitherto shown no trace ; a keen , and often humorous , observation of life and manners ; a clear eye for the significant features of landscape ; a power to seize the essentials of historic events or ...
... qualities of which his poetry had hitherto shown no trace ; a keen , and often humorous , observation of life and manners ; a clear eye for the significant features of landscape ; a power to seize the essentials of historic events or ...
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... qualities which the modern reader finds some difficulty in recog- nising as their own . Coleridge ( 1772-1834 ) , whose later poetry is more fastidiously distilled than that of any other Englishman , was notorious for the " turgid ode ...
... qualities which the modern reader finds some difficulty in recog- nising as their own . Coleridge ( 1772-1834 ) , whose later poetry is more fastidiously distilled than that of any other Englishman , was notorious for the " turgid ode ...
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... local colouring . And it is the romantic leaning implied in these qualities that prompted him to the attack on Pope ( 1806 ) which Thus , of so deeply stirred the spleen of Byron 52 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE ROMANTIC REVOLT .
... local colouring . And it is the romantic leaning implied in these qualities that prompted him to the attack on Pope ( 1806 ) which Thus , of so deeply stirred the spleen of Byron 52 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE ROMANTIC REVOLT .
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... qualities . The atmosphere throughout is more confined . The iron gate of the Gothic castle , the filigree work of the lady's chamber , are poor substi- tutes for the boundless horizon and the wide sea , of which the Mariner himself ...
... qualities . The atmosphere throughout is more confined . The iron gate of the Gothic castle , the filigree work of the lady's chamber , are poor substi- tutes for the boundless horizon and the wide sea , of which the Mariner himself ...
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... qualities that caught the fancy of men like Byron and Scott . However that may be , it is cer- tain that in its unpublished state Christabel made a deep impression upon both these poets , and its in- fluence on the Lay of the Last ...
... qualities that caught the fancy of men like Byron and Scott . However that may be , it is cer- tain that in its unpublished state Christabel made a deep impression upon both these poets , and its in- fluence on the Lay of the Last ...
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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