The North American Review, Volume 91O. Everett, 1860 - North American review Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... poems . The keenness of his sensibilities was almost more than womanly , while his love of the ideal continually drew him away from the realities of life . Indeed , he hardly knew the workings of the human heart in exterior develop ...
... poems . The keenness of his sensibilities was almost more than womanly , while his love of the ideal continually drew him away from the realities of life . Indeed , he hardly knew the workings of the human heart in exterior develop ...
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... poem on " Poetry , " Percival thus treats of its mate- rial : " The world is full of Poetry ; the air --- Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies , And sparkle in its brightness . Earth is veiled ...
... poem on " Poetry , " Percival thus treats of its mate- rial : " The world is full of Poetry ; the air --- Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies , And sparkle in its brightness . Earth is veiled ...
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... poem : " All live and move to the poetic eye . The winds have voices , and the stars of night Are spirits throned in brightness , keeping watch O'er earth and its inhabitants ; the clouds , That gird the sun with glory , are a train ...
... poem : " All live and move to the poetic eye . The winds have voices , and the stars of night Are spirits throned in brightness , keeping watch O'er earth and its inhabitants ; the clouds , That gird the sun with glory , are a train ...
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... poem entitled " The Suicide " ( in which those who knew him can trace a dark passage in his history ) reads as if it were ... poems of Jones Very , coming nearer to the received doctrines of religious faith , re- peat the same restless ...
... poem entitled " The Suicide " ( in which those who knew him can trace a dark passage in his history ) reads as if it were ... poems of Jones Very , coming nearer to the received doctrines of religious faith , re- peat the same restless ...
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... poem is complete ? There is no work which is not the fragment of a greater ; and a poem , however entire may be its epic completeness in design and comprehen- sion , is level with its aim only in special parts . Thus judged , our poet ...
... poem is complete ? There is no work which is not the fragment of a greater ; and a poem , however entire may be its epic completeness in design and comprehen- sion , is level with its aim only in special parts . Thus judged , our poet ...
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Page 379 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Page 536 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Page 532 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss...
Page 535 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast — a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 532 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe...
Page 398 - With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed...
Page 375 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Page 438 - He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.
Page 533 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 378 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...