The Recreations of Christopher North

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Phillips, 1858 - Всего страниц: 307
 

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Стр. 220 - Cliffs, chasms, blocks of stone, and the skeletons of old trees — far — far down — and dwindled into specks a thousand creatures of her own kind, stationary, or running to and fro! Was that the sound of the waterfall, or the faint roar of voices ? Is that her native strath ? — and that tuft of trees, does it contain the hut in which stands the cradle of her child ? Never more shall it be rocked by her foot ! Here must she die — and when her breast is exhausted — her baby too. And those...
Стр. 264 - Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be .inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon it in the spirit of genuine imagination.
Стр. 115 - We opened our eyes, or rather sight came to them when closed, and dream was vision ! Hundreds of creatures, no taller than the crest of the lapwing, and all hanging down their veiled heads, stood in a circle on a green...
Стр. 186 - ... most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined to a few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication of man to man may diffuse itself through many topics of persuasion ; but supplication to God can only cry for mercy.
Стр. 105 - In all things that from her sweet influence Might tend to wean him. Therefore with her hues, Her forms, and with the spirit of her forms, He clothed the nakedness of austere truth. While yet he lingered in the rudiments Of science, and among her simplest laws, His triangles, they were the stars of heaven The silent stars ! Oft did he take delight To measure the altitude of some tall crag That is the eagle's birthplace...
Стр. 88 - And sees, on high, amidst th' encircling groves, From cliff to cliff the foaming torrents shine: While waters, woods, and winds, in concert join, And echo swells the chorus to the skies. Would Edwin this majestic scene resign For aught the huntsman's puny craft supplies ? Ah ! no : he better knows great Nature's charms to prize.
Стр. 183 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind.
Стр. 105 - Plain his garb ; Such as might suit a rustic Sire, prepared For sabbath duties ; yet he was a man Whom no one could have passed without remark.
Стр. 154 - ... trees that once stood at the very head of the glen. Into that corner the snow-drift had not yet forced its way, and he sat down there, with Flora in the cherishing of his embrace, hoping that the warmth of his distracted heart might be felt by her, who was as cold as a corpse. The chill air was somewhat softened by the breath of the huddled flock, and the edge of the cutting wind blunted by the stones. It was a place in which it seemed possible that she might revive, miserable as it was with...
Стр. 220 - ... than any bird of prey that ever bathed its beak in blood, throttle the fiends that with their heavy wings would fain flap her down the cliffs, and hold up her child, in deliverance, before the eye of the all-seeing God ! 35 No stop, — no stay, — she knew not that she drew her breath.

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