Blanche of Bourbon; and Other PoemsT. Hookham, 1877 - 352 pagine |
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afar Ancient Rome band BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN Blanche BLANCHE OF BOURBON blow brave breast bright brow calm Castile cheer cloud courser crowd dare dark dazzling deed deep defy Don Henrique Don Pèdre Don Pedro doom dread E'en earth faint fatal fate feel fierce fiery flashing Froissart gain gallant band gaze gloomy glow gone grief hand hath head hear heard heart heav'n hope hour joyous King light lips living lone loud Lucy Walters MARIA DE PADILLA Mérimée mind Monmouth mournful neath never night noble numbers o'er pale pause peal poetry pray prayer proud Queen Queen of Aragon roar round rushing scene seen silent sinking SIR WALTER SCOTT sleep slow soul Spain spirit steeds steel stood strove tear thee thou thoughts thro throbbing throne tower trembling tyrant Uraca vile Viscount of Narbonne voice wild
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Pagina 223 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Pagina 233 - that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...
Pagina 233 - And if truth thus dwells in the boldest fictions of the poet, much more may it be expected in his delineations of life; for the present life, which is the first stage of the immortal mind, abounds in the materials of poetry, and it is the highest office of the bard to detect this divine element among the grosser pleasures and labors of our earthly being.
Pagina 232 - We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble.
Pagina 329 - The judgment of the law is, and this high court doth award, that you, William, Earl of Kilmarnock, George, Earl of Cromartie, and Arthur, Lord Balmerino, and every one of you, return to the prison of the Tower, from whence you came ; from thence you must be drawn to the place of execution ; when you come there, you must be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead ; for you must be cut down alive...
Pagina 234 - Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world ; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters...
Pagina 216 - ... the Arabs, in changing their wandering for a settled life, in striking the tent, to plant it in a form more solid, had transferred the luxurious shawls and hangings of Cashmere, which had adorned their former dwellings, to their new, changing the tent pole for a marble column, and the silken tissue for gilded plaster...
Pagina 326 - Here are six guineas for you : pray do your business well: do not serve me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard you struck him three or four times. Here [to his servant*], take these remaining guineas, and give them to him, if he does his work well. " Executioner. I hope I shall. " M. If you strike me twice, I cannot promise you not to stir.
Pagina 232 - It delights in the beauty and sublimity of the outward creation and of the soul. It indeed portrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions ; but they are passions which show a. mighty nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy.
Pagina 216 - The architecture of the Arabs," says Owen Jones, " is essentially religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible. The prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other means of decoration — inscriptions from the Koran, interwoven with geometrical ornaments and flowers, not drawn decidedly from nature, but translated through the loom ; for it would seem that the Arabs, in changing their wandering for a settled life, in striking the tent to plant...