A Survey of English Literature, 1780-1830, Volume 2E. Arnold & Company, 1924 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Alastor amongst artist beauty Beddoes blank verse Byron canto Carlyle character Charles Lamb Childe Harold Coleridge Coleridge's colour Crabbe criticism Dante death diction Don Juan drama dream Elizabethan English essay feeling friends genius Giaour Goethe happy Hazlitt heroic human humour Hyperion imagination inspired Keats Keats's kind Lamb Lamb's Landor language Leigh Hunt less letters lines literary literature living Lyrical Ballads memory metre Milton mind mood nature never Parisina passages passion perfect philosophy pieces play poem poet poetic poetry political Prometheus Prometheus Unbound prose pure Quincey Quincey's Revolt of Islam rhyme rhythm romantic satire scene Scott sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's shows Siege of Corinth song sonnets soul Southey spirit stanza story style tale temper things thought Tintern Abbey tion touch translation true utterance vision vols whole words Wordsworth writing written wrote youth
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Página 208 - That light whose smile kindles the universe, That beauty in which all things work and move, That benediction which the eclipsing curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which, through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Página 196 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 256 - She dwells with Beauty - Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine...
Página 116 - O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Página 159 - He had no breath, no being, but in hers; She was his voice; he did not speak to her, But trembled on her words; she was his sight, For his eye follow'd hers, and saw with hers, Which colour'd all his objects:— he had ceased To live within himself; she was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all...
Página 80 - Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong.
Página 152 - Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery ; But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their wonted track ; I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before...
Página 121 - He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.
Página 112 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Página 114 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now...