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...agination, nourished doubtless by a loving familiarity of the best English poets. While in n degree imitative, the imitation is none the less creditab...
...hich even a royal en- core— But it is better to illustrate. The King of Bavaria is a poet, and has a poet’s eccentricities—with the advantage over all... ...avings to a sharper to be ventured in a glittering speculation. But that was not the worst of it: he signed a paper—without reading it. That is the wa...
... nothing but love and emotion; it is the `Living Infinite,’ as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her t... ...aint such pictures, one must have the pen of the most illustri- ous of our poets, the author of The Toilers of the Deep. I have said that Captain Nemo...
...st can find the kernel.” In such rose-colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical de- tails of whi... ...itual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View-hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed external ... ...e been of- ten irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Meta- phorical Tailors? Touching...
...o and look around! Are they hither wending? Then to make our joy complete, Poets I invited, Who love other’s songs far more Than what they’ve indited.... ...with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great poets, to which many of their finest works are owing.] ONCE a stranger yout... ...d! Ay, my voice shall now be heard, As a peal of thunder, strong! Words as poets’ arms were made,— When the god will he obey’d, Follow fast his darts ... ...voices gave thee, Age can never steal upon thee. Wise and gentle friend of poets, Born a creature fleshless, bloodless, 257 Goethe Though Earth’s dau...
...history as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolution... ...es, slaughter one another’s subjects; it has raised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and lit... ...nfin ished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind . Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has died th... ...ebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, ...
... of the poem, as in the “Gudrun” and other M.H.G. epics. Among the courtly poets it also frequently denotes the source, or is the personification of t...
...re, if he could maintain a tolerable familiarity with the fore- most Latin poets, and a very slender one indeed with the Grecian. How slender, we can ... ... power can be looked for there. The Antigone and the Electra of the tragic poets are the two leading female characters that classical antiquity offers... ... whole is for each and in each. They only are real incarnations. The Greek poets could not exhibit any approximations to female character, without vio... ...akspeare to have thought more finely and more exten- sively than all other poets combined, that we cannot wrong the dignity of such a theme by doing m... ... perplexed knots of rhetorical condensation, which we find in the dramatic poets of a higher civilization. 2dly, From the constant hounds set to the e...
...ny of that rich manhood which forms his poetry. All good men may be called poets in act, or in word; all good poets are so in both. But Goethe besides... ...tness, of which there is no other living instance; of which, among British poets espe- cially, Wordsworth alone offers any resemblance. And this in ou... ...talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity of poets, and their innate independence on external circumstances, could be no... ... bear it warrior- like; still fewer put it off with triumph. Among our own poets, Byron was almost the only man we saw faithfully and manfully struggl... ...cteristic of a Master in Art of any sort; and true especially of all great Poets. How true is it of Shakespeare and Homer! Who knows, or can figure wh...
...ewest can find the kernel.” In such rose colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical details of whi... ...iritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed externa... ... here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Metaphorical Tailors? Touching...