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... nature of deep feeling to be short and varia- ble . Of this temperament are these writers . They are une- qual , irregular and affected ; but , then , they rise upon you bold and lofty and majestic , with bursts of feeling and fancy and ...
... nature of deep feeling to be short and varia- ble . Of this temperament are these writers . They are une- qual , irregular and affected ; but , then , they rise upon you bold and lofty and majestic , with bursts of feeling and fancy and ...
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... nature . of a language . The hexameter verse was adopted by the Greeks and Romans , as suited to the majesty of their tongue , abounding in pollysyllables , and these , marked accurately by quantity ; but the attempt failed , of Jodelle ...
... nature . of a language . The hexameter verse was adopted by the Greeks and Romans , as suited to the majesty of their tongue , abounding in pollysyllables , and these , marked accurately by quantity ; but the attempt failed , of Jodelle ...
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... earth again . He loved as many a lay can tell , Preserved in Stanmore's lonely dell ; For his was minstrel's skill , he caught The art unteachable , untaught ; D He loved -- his soul did nature frame For love ROKEBY . 25.
... earth again . He loved as many a lay can tell , Preserved in Stanmore's lonely dell ; For his was minstrel's skill , he caught The art unteachable , untaught ; D He loved -- his soul did nature frame For love ROKEBY . 25.
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He loved -- his soul did nature frame For love , and fancy nursed the flame ; Vainly he loved - for seldom swain Of such soft mould is loved again ; Silent he loved - in every gaze Was passion , friendship in his phrase . So mused his ...
He loved -- his soul did nature frame For love , and fancy nursed the flame ; Vainly he loved - for seldom swain Of such soft mould is loved again ; Silent he loved - in every gaze Was passion , friendship in his phrase . So mused his ...
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... respite thus we gain . " For the memory of our sentimental readers we quote the fol- lowing passages ; for Scott is exceedingly felicitous in making the resemblances between the appearances of nature and the feelings 32 ROKEBY .
... respite thus we gain . " For the memory of our sentimental readers we quote the fol- lowing passages ; for Scott is exceedingly felicitous in making the resemblances between the appearances of nature and the feelings 32 ROKEBY .
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Page 164 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
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Page 163 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 516 - Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die...
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Page 383 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.