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"Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone."
The Visit of the Gods. (Imitated from Schiller.)
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"Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn."
A Christmas Carol. viii.
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"The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust."
The Knight's Tomb.
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"It sounds like stories from the land of spirits If any man obtains that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. . . . . . . . . . Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures,--love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,-- Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death."
Complaint. Ed. 1852. The Good Great Man. Ed. 1893.
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"My eyes make pictures when they are shut."
A Day-Dream.
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"To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!"
On taking Leave of ----, 1817.
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"In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal."
Motto to Poems written in Later Life.
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"Nought cared this body for wind or weather When youth and I lived in 't together."
Youth and Age.
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"Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!"
Youth and Age.
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"I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,-- His eyes are in his mind."
To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation.
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"What outward form and feature are He guesseth but in part; But what within is good and fair He seeth with the heart."
To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation.
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"Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea."
Fancy in Nubibus.
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"I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks."
Cologne.
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"The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?"
Cologne.
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"Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows; Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean."
The Homeric Hexameter. (Translated from Schiller.)
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"In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. (From Schiller.)
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"I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered."
Remorse. Act iv. Sc. 3.
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"The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths,--all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason."
Wallenstein. Part i. Act ii. Sc. 4. (Translated from Schiller.)
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"I 've lived and loved."
Wallenstein. Part i. Act ii. Sc. 6.
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"Clothing the palpable and familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn."
The Death of Wallenstein. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow."
The Death of Wallenstein. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Our myriad-minded Shakespeare."
Biog. Lit. Chap. xv.
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"A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."
The Friend. Sec. i. Essay 8.
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"An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star."
Ibid., No. 14.
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"Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics."
Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, p. 36. Delivered 1811-1812.
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"Schiller has the material sublime."
Table Talk.
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,--words in their best order; poetry,--the best words in their best order."
Table Talk.
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"That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense."
Table Talk.
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"Iago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!"
Notes on some other Plays of Shakespeare.
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