Theology in the English Poets: Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth and BurnsH.S. King & Company, 1874 - 339 páginas |
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... received some previous culture . This was especially true of religious feeling , and a little before the Essay on Man was written , a true devotional element entered into our poetry in the hymns of Watts , and entered it outside of the ...
... received some previous culture . This was especially true of religious feeling , and a little before the Essay on Man was written , a true devotional element entered into our poetry in the hymns of Watts , and entered it outside of the ...
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... received the blow of Fate . Something of the same element we find in the dramas of Shakespeare , as , for example , Romeo and Juliet , where from the very beginning of the play , we feel that all the passionate force of young love is ...
... received the blow of Fate . Something of the same element we find in the dramas of Shakespeare , as , for example , Romeo and Juliet , where from the very beginning of the play , we feel that all the passionate force of young love is ...
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... received from an idea which has not yet taken any political form , quite uncon- sciously . Cowper talked as naturally of all men as Pope did of one of two classes of men : he asks how he and any man that lives could be strangers to each ...
... received from an idea which has not yet taken any political form , quite uncon- sciously . Cowper talked as naturally of all men as Pope did of one of two classes of men : he asks how he and any man that lives could be strangers to each ...
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... received did not come to him from a dead Nature , but from his own awakening soul , using the apparent world as the means of teaching him that which his true self is . And when he has once learnt that lesson , then -this is the ...
... received did not come to him from a dead Nature , but from his own awakening soul , using the apparent world as the means of teaching him that which his true self is . And when he has once learnt that lesson , then -this is the ...
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... received all the impressions she chose to give him . He could look at a tree , a cloud , a flower , and see each as they were , unmixt with human feeling . Therefore we have from him close , direct de- scription . There are few passages ...
... received all the impressions she chose to give him . He could look at a tree , a cloud , a flower , and see each as they were , unmixt with human feeling . Therefore we have from him close , direct de- scription . There are few passages ...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth & Burns Stopford Augustus Brooke Vista de fragmentos - 1910 |
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Página 126 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith...
Página 121 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Página 76 - ... my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness: For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, 80 And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
Página 129 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 84 - Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer, 1 worshipped the Invisible alone. Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it...
Página 89 - The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain poured down from one black cloud ; The Moon was at its edge.
Página 311 - The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I backward cast my e'e On prospects drear, An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an
Página 15 - STEVENSON (Rev. WF). Hymns for the Church and Home. Selected and Edited by the Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson. The most complete Hymn Book published. The Hymn Book consists of Three Parts : — I.
Página 88 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red.
Página 65 - Yet, oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies ! And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wished is done.