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Pàgina 15
... expressed in harmonious language . He is apt , however , to make his pictures too gaudy : they want shadows - and , by their excess of brilliancy , the eye is fa- tigued , and the images rendered indistinct . The melody of his verse ...
... expressed in harmonious language . He is apt , however , to make his pictures too gaudy : they want shadows - and , by their excess of brilliancy , the eye is fa- tigued , and the images rendered indistinct . The melody of his verse ...
Pàgina 20
... expression , of some of the inimitable saintly figures of Guido Rheni and Dominichino : " It was a lovely sight to see The lady Christabel , when she Was praying at the old oak - tree , Amid the jagged shadows Of mossy leafless boughs ...
... expression , of some of the inimitable saintly figures of Guido Rheni and Dominichino : " It was a lovely sight to see The lady Christabel , when she Was praying at the old oak - tree , Amid the jagged shadows Of mossy leafless boughs ...
Pàgina 21
The idea in the following passage is highly poetical , and is expressed by the author with considerable felicity , though too minutely : " A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy , And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head , Each ...
The idea in the following passage is highly poetical , and is expressed by the author with considerable felicity , though too minutely : " A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy , And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head , Each ...
Pàgina 26
... expression which are so essential to the detail of historical painting , his own fervent desire to drink deep of inspiration at the hallowed fount of genius , and the earnest recommendation of his friends , combined to direct him to ...
... expression which are so essential to the detail of historical painting , his own fervent desire to drink deep of inspiration at the hallowed fount of genius , and the earnest recommendation of his friends , combined to direct him to ...
Pàgina 27
... expression , and nobleness of conception which he displayed in his effusions , had obtained from him that distinguished name . Those who once heard his poetry , never ceased to lament that it was lost in the same moment , affirming that ...
... expression , and nobleness of conception which he displayed in his effusions , had obtained from him that distinguished name . Those who once heard his poetry , never ceased to lament that it was lost in the same moment , affirming that ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 23 - mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Pàgina 22 - The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines...
Pàgina 19 - The night is chill; the forest bare; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak? There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Pàgina 24 - But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me : A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Pàgina 20 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Pàgina 286 - Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Pàgina 358 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended ; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page, and groom, Tenant and master.
Pàgina 20 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Pàgina 20 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other ; ' To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Pàgina 22 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head; Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye...