Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, 1868. (Lectures on poetry). |
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... earth can bestow becomes , immediately after man's transfer- ence to a higher state of things , absolutely valueless and childish : We may then fairly say that ' The Prelude ' was sup- pressed for good and all . This I affirm , because ...
... earth can bestow becomes , immediately after man's transfer- ence to a higher state of things , absolutely valueless and childish : We may then fairly say that ' The Prelude ' was sup- pressed for good and all . This I affirm , because ...
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... earth . I know very well that the imagination helps us , when we speak of Byron , Wordsworth , Shelley , and the like , to raise up forms and pictures for the mind , without consciously analysing them into their ultimate elements . But ...
... earth . I know very well that the imagination helps us , when we speak of Byron , Wordsworth , Shelley , and the like , to raise up forms and pictures for the mind , without consciously analysing them into their ultimate elements . But ...
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... earth . We know now how he paused at intervals in his noble task ; and how he employed those intervals ; or how , if he ever rested absolutely , it was to fix his eyes upon the future , in the sure and certain hope that he should behold ...
... earth . We know now how he paused at intervals in his noble task ; and how he employed those intervals ; or how , if he ever rested absolutely , it was to fix his eyes upon the future , in the sure and certain hope that he should behold ...
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... earth's struggling millions since the first birth of time - hopes and aspirations , taking Wordsworth himself captive , as we may see , above all ordinary men , and filling his heart with passionate enthusiasm . He is retiring , we may ...
... earth's struggling millions since the first birth of time - hopes and aspirations , taking Wordsworth himself captive , as we may see , above all ordinary men , and filling his heart with passionate enthusiasm . He is retiring , we may ...
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... earth ; from ' visions of the hills , ' and ' souls of lonely places , ' his imagination was not left uninfluenced by the two great stimulants of reverence and fear ; by emotions which , to use his own words , Impressed upon all forms ...
... earth ; from ' visions of the hills , ' and ' souls of lonely places , ' his imagination was not left uninfluenced by the two great stimulants of reverence and fear ; by emotions which , to use his own words , Impressed upon all forms ...
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appears battle beauty become believe belong beneath better breath bright called character comes criticism dark death doubt dream earth effect English eyes fear feel flowers force genius give given hand heart Homer honour hope hour human imagination influence interest kind King known Lady least leave lecture less light lines living look Lord lost Macbeth Marmion mean memory mind natural never night noble once original overmastered passages passed passion perhaps play poem poet poetical poetry Prelude present reason rest round scene Scott seems sense Shakspere soul speak spirit stand strength strong sure tell things thou thought touch tragedy true truth turn verse whilst whole wild Wordsworth writing written young youth
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Página 185 - By just his horse's mane, a boy: you hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast was all but shot in two. "Well," cried he, "Emperor, by God's grace we've got you Ratisbon!
Página 26 - Magnificent The morning rose, in memorable pomp, Glorious as e'er I had beheld — in front, The sea lay laughing at a distance ; near, The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds, Grain-tinctured, drenched in empyrean light ; And in the meadows and the lower grounds Was all the sweetness of a common dawn-- Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields.
Página 27 - Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane; a pillared shade, Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of...
Página 27 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane; — a pillared shade, Yew-trees.
Página 135 - At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast. And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave...
Página 167 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Página 160 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 133 - But see ! look up — on Flodden bent The Scottish foe has fired his tent. " And sudden, as he spoke, From the sharp ridges of the hill. All downward to the banks of Till, Was wreathed in sable smoke. Volumed and...
Página 136 - Crests rose, and stoop'd, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tunstall's banner white, And Edmund Howard's lion bright...
Página 53 - I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat Went heaving through the water like a swan ; When, from behind that craggy steep till then The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head.