The Sewanee Review, Volumes 3-4University of the South, 1896 - American fiction |
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... forces , her protean moods , her lovely witnesses in flower , tree , and bird , in field and sky , in mountain height and limitless stretch of far resounding sea . Such , too , is man himself on his heroic , his martial , and mythic ...
... forces , her protean moods , her lovely witnesses in flower , tree , and bird , in field and sky , in mountain height and limitless stretch of far resounding sea . Such , too , is man himself on his heroic , his martial , and mythic ...
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... force two divergent tend- encies checked and modified its self - confident liberty . First the socialistic theories ... forces acted together or apart on all forms [ 15 ]
... force two divergent tend- encies checked and modified its self - confident liberty . First the socialistic theories ... forces acted together or apart on all forms [ 15 ]
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These two forces acted together or apart on all forms of literature , but in prose fiction they were for a time dominated by the genius of Balzac and by the scientific de- terminism or scepticism of Taine and Renan , and in the drama ...
These two forces acted together or apart on all forms of literature , but in prose fiction they were for a time dominated by the genius of Balzac and by the scientific de- terminism or scepticism of Taine and Renan , and in the drama ...
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... forces , and to publish them im- mediately . I flatter myself that I shall lose no honor by this publication , because I believe these odes , as they now stand , are infinitely the best things I ever wrote . You will see a very pretty ...
... forces , and to publish them im- mediately . I flatter myself that I shall lose no honor by this publication , because I believe these odes , as they now stand , are infinitely the best things I ever wrote . You will see a very pretty ...
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... force of imagery , not to the heart by the force of emotion . He never rises into bombast , he never sinks into bathos . His poetry is always measured , temperate ,. and well - ordered . He has no sustained flights , and a long poem ...
... force of imagery , not to the heart by the force of emotion . He never rises into bombast , he never sinks into bathos . His poetry is always measured , temperate ,. and well - ordered . He has no sustained flights , and a long poem ...
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Page 292 - Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain; But memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, And weariness a name.
Page 290 - A sister to the night !— Sleep not ! — thine image wakes for aye Within my watching breast: Sleep not! — from her soft sleep should fly, Who robs all hearts of rest. Nay, lady, from thy slumbers break, And make this darkness gay With looks, whose brightness well might make...
Page 46 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 47 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and, lovelier still, The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 35 - Car nous voulons la Nuance encor, Pas la couleur, rien que la nuance! Oh! la nuance seule fiance Le rêve au rêve et la flûte au cor!
Page 105 - O World ! O life ! O time ! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before, — When will return the glory of your prime ? No more — oh never more ! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight ; Fresh Spring, and Summer, and Winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, — but with delight No more — oh never more!
Page 114 - And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
Page 104 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 475 - Before I went into Germany, I came to Broadgate in Leicestershire, to take my leave of that noble Lady Jane Grey, to whom I was exceeding much beholding. Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her in her chamber, reading...
Page 188 - The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company, and people are generally quite keen enough, or too keen, about doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and most innocent manner by reading. However, if I live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.