Oxford: A PoemS. Collingwood; pub. by Whittaker, London, 1831 - 258 páginas |
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... night That Time engenders o'er their vanish'd might ? ' Tis Mind ! an immortality below , That gilds the past , and bids the future glow ; " Tis Mind ! heroic , pure , devoted Mind , To God appealing for corrupt mankind , Reflecting ...
... night That Time engenders o'er their vanish'd might ? ' Tis Mind ! an immortality below , That gilds the past , and bids the future glow ; " Tis Mind ! heroic , pure , devoted Mind , To God appealing for corrupt mankind , Reflecting ...
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... night - a day of grandeur spent In all that makes a day magnificent , — Art , Pomp , and Beauty , grac'd by King and Queen * , The Duchess of Oldenburgh , the sister of Alexander - afterwards Queen of Wirtemburgh . With dazzling banquet ...
... night - a day of grandeur spent In all that makes a day magnificent , — Art , Pomp , and Beauty , grac'd by King and Queen * , The Duchess of Oldenburgh , the sister of Alexander - afterwards Queen of Wirtemburgh . With dazzling banquet ...
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... night a thousand windows gleam and glow With pictur'd radiance , or transcendent show ; And lamp - wreath'd piles and blazing temples seem Like genii fabrics in some gorgeous dream ! But , oh ! to stand where Gloom and Silence drown The ...
... night a thousand windows gleam and glow With pictur'd radiance , or transcendent show ; And lamp - wreath'd piles and blazing temples seem Like genii fabrics in some gorgeous dream ! But , oh ! to stand where Gloom and Silence drown The ...
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... night.— The Midnight comes , and with her sound , and storm ! And cloudy phantoms , each a dreadful form ; From east to west earth - shaking thunders roll , And lightnings quiver from the glaring pole ; A rainy deluge rushes from the ...
... night.— The Midnight comes , and with her sound , and storm ! And cloudy phantoms , each a dreadful form ; From east to west earth - shaking thunders roll , And lightnings quiver from the glaring pole ; A rainy deluge rushes from the ...
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... night eternal incense rose To Him from whom the tide of being flows ! That self - respect , around whose constant sway The purest beams of happiness must play , He ever felt ; the same proud dream it gave To hours that wither'd in the ...
... night eternal incense rose To Him from whom the tide of being flows ! That self - respect , around whose constant sway The purest beams of happiness must play , He ever felt ; the same proud dream it gave To hours that wither'd in the ...
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Página 214 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Página 187 - 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.
Página 202 - Hie, dum sublimis versus ructatur et errat, Si veluti merulis intentus decidit auceps In puteum foveamve, licet, ' Succurrite,
Página 188 - Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Página 217 - 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.
Página 223 - Twere well might Critics still this freedom take, But Appius reddens at each word you speak, And stares, tremendous, with a threat'ning eye, Like some fierce Tyrant in old tapestry.
Página 234 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Página 195 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Página 213 - Wo to her stubborn heart, if once mine come Into the self-same room, 'Twill tear and blow up all within, Like a grenado shot into a magazin. Then shall Love keep the ashes, and torn parts, Of both our broken hearts : Shall out of both one new one make ; From her's th" allay; from mine, the metal take.
Página 194 - A poet, while living, is seldom an object sufficiently great to attract much attention ; his real merits are known but to a few, and these are generally sparing in their praises. When his fame is increased by time, it is then too late to investigate the peculiarities of his disposition ; the dews of morning are past, and we vainly try to continue the chase by the meridian splendor.