Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 44John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1858 |
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... heart our spy , Give knowledge instantly To wakeful reason , our affections ' king : Who , in th ' examining , Will quickly taste the treason , and commit Close , the close cause of it . ' Tis the securest policy we have , To make our ...
... heart our spy , Give knowledge instantly To wakeful reason , our affections ' king : Who , in th ' examining , Will quickly taste the treason , and commit Close , the close cause of it . ' Tis the securest policy we have , To make our ...
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... heart is glad ; So through the world was heard a dripping noise Of all things weeping to bring Balder back . " -Arnold's Poems ( Second Series , ) p . 58 . " Now a daring climber , she Mounts the tallest forest tree , Out along the ...
... heart is glad ; So through the world was heard a dripping noise Of all things weeping to bring Balder back . " -Arnold's Poems ( Second Series , ) p . 58 . " Now a daring climber , she Mounts the tallest forest tree , Out along the ...
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... heart of a nation . His tragedy must have been submitted to a board , with whom it is as much a na- tional question as the abolition of church rates . His spectators must be some thir- ty thousand worshipers . The antiqua- rian who set ...
... heart of a nation . His tragedy must have been submitted to a board , with whom it is as much a na- tional question as the abolition of church rates . His spectators must be some thir- ty thousand worshipers . The antiqua- rian who set ...
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... heart or soul . These vio- for thinking with an eminent commenta- lently anti - spasmodic poets must become tor , that the starry sky was above him , mere imitators , whether the cast of imita- and that he looked up to it when he said ...
... heart or soul . These vio- for thinking with an eminent commenta- lently anti - spasmodic poets must become tor , that the starry sky was above him , mere imitators , whether the cast of imita- and that he looked up to it when he said ...
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... heart than ours who is not pleased with these : " At noon , as he lay in the sultriness , under his broad leafy limes , Far sweeter than murmuring / water came the toll of 70 [ May , POETRY : MATTHEW ARNOLD AND MACCARTHY .
... heart than ours who is not pleased with these : " At noon , as he lay in the sultriness , under his broad leafy limes , Far sweeter than murmuring / water came the toll of 70 [ May , POETRY : MATTHEW ARNOLD AND MACCARTHY .
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Page 410 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 410 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 411 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 410 - Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Page 410 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 8 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 239 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 123 - The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter ; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth : In his humiliation his judgment was taken away : and who shall declare his generation ? for his life is taken from the earth.
Page 8 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 470 - ... a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well.