The Westminster Review, Volume 12Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1829 - English literature |
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he sprung . The personifications in his Sonnet on the expatria- tion of Dr. Priestley , are as good as such things can be . The concluding reference to Priestley's philosophical discoveries , might suggest a noble group for the sculptor ...
he sprung . The personifications in his Sonnet on the expatria- tion of Dr. Priestley , are as good as such things can be . The concluding reference to Priestley's philosophical discoveries , might suggest a noble group for the sculptor ...
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... tion , consisting of political , amatory , and meditative poems . Of the " Poems occasioned by political events or feelings connected with them , " there are two which particularly deserve notice , the " Fears in Solitude , " written in ...
... tion , consisting of political , amatory , and meditative poems . Of the " Poems occasioned by political events or feelings connected with them , " there are two which particularly deserve notice , the " Fears in Solitude , " written in ...
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... tion ; and of both with the sweetest melody of verse . author has generalised Dryden's assertion ( Dryden was no contemptible metaphysician ) , that " Pity melts the soul to love . " He maintains that- . " All thoughts , all passions ...
... tion ; and of both with the sweetest melody of verse . author has generalised Dryden's assertion ( Dryden was no contemptible metaphysician ) , that " Pity melts the soul to love . " He maintains that- . " All thoughts , all passions ...
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... tion , to his prose works . We therefore pass that over . Nor will Remorse , although the conception is good , and there are many passages which few men living could have written , do any thing for his fame . His talent is not dramatic ...
... tion , to his prose works . We therefore pass that over . Nor will Remorse , although the conception is good , and there are many passages which few men living could have written , do any thing for his fame . His talent is not dramatic ...
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... tion , " the Ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign in the element afar off , " prefiguring the destiny of himself and his comrades . It is a spectre ship , in which Death and Life - in - death dice for the crew , and she ( we must introduce ...
... tion , " the Ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign in the element afar off , " prefiguring the destiny of himself and his comrades . It is a spectre ship , in which Death and Life - in - death dice for the crew , and she ( we must introduce ...
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Page 21 - Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 282 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 12 - ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower. The moonshine, stealing o'er the scene, Had blended with the lights of eve; And she was there, my hope, my joy, My own dear Genevieve!
Page 15 - twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 24 - The harmless Albatross. The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.
Page 16 - Such a soft floating witchery of sound As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy-Land, Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers, Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise, Nor pause, nor perch, hovering on untamed wing ! O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul...
Page 24 - Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Page 15 - Mid countless brethren with a lonely heart Through courts and cities the smooth savage roams Feeling himself, his own low self the whole ; When he by sacred sympathy might make The whole one self! self, that no alien knows! Self, far diffused as Fancy's wing can travel ! Self, spreading still ! Oblivious of its own, Yet all of all possessing...
Page 26 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 15 - ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended knees ; But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest, Only a sense of supplication ; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest, Since in me, round me, everywhere Eternal strength and wisdom are.