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... Justice , " with all the extravagance of its first edition , or with all the inconsisten- cies of its last , is a noble work , replete with lofty principle and thought , and often leading to the most striking results by a process of the ...
... Justice , " with all the extravagance of its first edition , or with all the inconsisten- cies of its last , is a noble work , replete with lofty principle and thought , and often leading to the most striking results by a process of the ...
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... justice breathes solemnly through all the scenes in the devoted castle . " Fate sits on its dark battlements , and frowns . " There is a spirit of deep philosophy in the tracing of the gradual influence of patricidal thoughts on the ...
... justice breathes solemnly through all the scenes in the devoted castle . " Fate sits on its dark battlements , and frowns . " There is a spirit of deep philosophy in the tracing of the gradual influence of patricidal thoughts on the ...
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... justice at last to his powers- studying not to excite the wonder of a few barren readers or spectators , but to live in the hearts of the good of future times - and , to this high end , leaving discord for harmony , the startling for ...
... justice at last to his powers- studying not to excite the wonder of a few barren readers or spectators , but to live in the hearts of the good of future times - and , to this high end , leaving discord for harmony , the startling for ...
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... on the supposed errors of the poet as moral crimes . He confounds fiction with fact - grows warm in defence of shadows - feels a violation of poetical justice , as a wrong conviction by a | 24 TALFOURD'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... on the supposed errors of the poet as moral crimes . He confounds fiction with fact - grows warm in defence of shadows - feels a violation of poetical justice , as a wrong conviction by a | 24 TALFOURD'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... justice ; and as he thinks that vice cannot be punished too severely , and yet that the poet ought to leave his victims objects of pity , he protests against the introduction of very wicked characters . " Therefore , " says he , " among ...
... justice ; and as he thinks that vice cannot be punished too severely , and yet that the poet ought to leave his victims objects of pity , he protests against the introduction of very wicked characters . " Therefore , " says he , " among ...
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Page 60 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, 80 That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 60 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Page 62 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 62 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth — so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 61 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions, not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 161 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Page 62 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 84 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Page 56 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
Page 58 - ... 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 mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.