Remains in verse and prose [ed. by H. Hallam].Ticknor, 1863 - 441 pagine |
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Pagina 25 - And Persia, and the wild Carmanian waste, And o'er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves, In joy and exultation held his way...
Pagina 88 - The garden trees are busy with the shower That fell ere sunset : now methinks they talk, Lowly and sweetly as befits the hour, One to another down the grassy walk. Hark the laburnum from his opening flower, This...
Pagina 143 - ... conviction, that the spirit of the critical philosophy, as seen by its fruits in all the ramifications of art, literature, and morality, is as much more dangerous than the spirit of mechanical philosophy, as it is fairer in appearance, and more capable of alliance with our natural feelings of enthusiasm and delight. Its dangerous tendency is this, that it perverts those very minds, whose office it was to resist the perverse impulses of society, and to proclaim truth under the dominion of falsehood.
Pagina 225 - Rossetti, who considers it a key of the whole treatise, and it must be owned it suits his purpose well. The death of poor Beatrice, although not the next incident mentioned by Dante, is the next he finds serviceable: and the mode of describing it affords room for much triumph on the part of our new interpreter. "Quomodo sola sedet civitas plena populo ! Facta est quasi vidua domina gentium ! II Signore della Giustizia chiamd quella gentilissima,
Pagina xviii - Petrarch he greatly admired, though with less idolatry than Dante ; and the sonnets here printed will show to all competent judges how fully he had imbibed the spirit, without servile centonism, of the best writers in that style of composition who flourished in the sixteenth century.
Pagina 20 - Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown, It must, or we shall rue it, We have a vision of our own, Ah ! why should we undo it...
Pagina 43 - ... that Abbey's doom ; For if, I thought, the early flowers Of our affection may not bloom, Like those green hills,' through countless hours, Grant me at least a tardy waning, Some pleasure still in age's paining; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay...
Pagina 259 - The brethren were members of his mystical body. All the other bonds that had fastened down the spirit of the universe to our narrow round of earth were as nothing in comparison to this golden chain of suffering and self-sacrifice, which at once riveted the heart of man to one who, like himself, was acquainted with grief. Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and more holy than any other.
Pagina 44 - With glances of depending love. They know not of that eminence Which marks him to my reasoning sense ; They know but that he is a man, And still to them is kind, and glads them all he can.
Pagina 277 - Undoubtedly the true poet addresses himself, in all his conceptions, to the common nature of us all. Art is a lofty tree, and may shoot up far beyond our grasp, but its roots are in daily life and experience. Every bosom contains the elements of those complex emotions which the artist feels, and every head can, to a certain extent, go over in itself the process of their combination, so as to understand his expressions and sympathize with his state. But this requires exertion ; more or less, indeed,...