New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 40Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1834 |
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... spirit of poetry and the spirit of the world . Why is it that this collision is almost invariably fatal to the gentler and the holier nature ? Some master - minds have , indeed , winged their way through the tumults of crowded life ...
... spirit of poetry and the spirit of the world . Why is it that this collision is almost invariably fatal to the gentler and the holier nature ? Some master - minds have , indeed , winged their way through the tumults of crowded life ...
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... spirit , there lie his veins of treasure ; there are the sweet waters ready to flow from the stricken rock . he will not seek them through the gaudy and hurrying masque of But artificial life ; he will not be the fettered Sampson to ...
... spirit , there lie his veins of treasure ; there are the sweet waters ready to flow from the stricken rock . he will not seek them through the gaudy and hurrying masque of But artificial life ; he will not be the fettered Sampson to ...
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... spirit of Goethe's poetry , -to transplant and naturalize the delicate feli- cities of thought and expression by which this piece is so eminently dis- tinguished . The visionary rapture which takes possession of Tasso upon being crowned ...
... spirit of Goethe's poetry , -to transplant and naturalize the delicate feli- cities of thought and expression by which this piece is so eminently dis- tinguished . The visionary rapture which takes possession of Tasso upon being crowned ...
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... spirit of Leonora has been at once elevated and subdued by early trial : high thoughts , like messengers from heaven , have been its visitants in the solitude of the sick chamber ; and , looking upon life and creation , as it were ...
... spirit of Leonora has been at once elevated and subdued by early trial : high thoughts , like messengers from heaven , have been its visitants in the solitude of the sick chamber ; and , looking upon life and creation , as it were ...
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... spirit yet more deeply ! Day by day How my own being , tuned to happiness , Gave forth a voice of finer harmony ! - Now is the twilight gloom around me fallen : The festal day , the sun's magnificence , All riches of this many ...
... spirit yet more deeply ! Day by day How my own being , tuned to happiness , Gave forth a voice of finer harmony ! - Now is the twilight gloom around me fallen : The festal day , the sun's magnificence , All riches of this many ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 43 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 43 - We have not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 43 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 301 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 193 - Pont-Neuf at Paris, that more people go to see the horse than the king who sits upon it. On the contrary, it gives me a just indignation to see a person whose action gives new majesty to kings, resolution to heroes, and softness to lovers, thus sinking from the greatness of his behaviour, and degraded into the character of the London Prentice.
Page 46 - ... in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness, and casting far from her the rags of her old vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people...
Page 46 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles, and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and bliss,
Page 378 - We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power.