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...at, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty sub stance into tangible realities, we find ourselves calm, and even... ...ise, the witty, and the famous in every walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,—all making their own... ... village, the city, life’s high places and low ones, may all produce their poets, whom a common 88 Mosses from an Old Manse temperament pervades like... ...however, the work assumed greater precision, and settled its irregular and misty outline into distincter grace and beauty. The general design was now ... ...mpulse to give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty...

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...ey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments 11 Pope by earlier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ... and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler. If the great poets, who flour ished at the bright period of Grecian song, of which, ala... ...e find no contradictions warranting this belief, and the so called sixteen poets concur in getting rid of the following leading men in the first battl... ...e with Colonel Mure, that “it seems strange that any number of independent poets should have so harmoniously dispensed with the services of all six in... ...ic value, espe cially in poetry. Three parts of the emendations made upon poets are mere alterations, some of which, had they been suggested to the a... ... on the gloomy bosom of the deep: 58 The Odyssey of Homer Soon as Malae’s misty tops arise, Sudden the Thunderer blackens all the skies, And the wind...

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...watching an Engineer being shelled by his own Battery. Now this shows that poets should not write about what they do not understand. Any one could hav... ...anufactured by neglecting to dress decently, by mooning about in a dreamy, misty sort of way, by taking office-work home after staying in office till ...

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...ad one which I told you at the fountain the other day. He had known mighty poets, he said, in his earlier life; and the most illustrious of them would... ...n, who had been born to gladness as an assured heritage, now involved in a misty be- wilderment of grievous thoughts, amid which he seemed to go stagg... ...spectator could not tell rocky height from impalpable cloud. Far into this misty cloud region, however,—within the do- main of chaos, as it were,—hill... ... sky is wont to be set aflame with breadths and depths of color with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to co... ... away. For the rest, let them be piled in gar- rets, just as the tolerable poets are shelved, when their little day is over. Is a painter more sacred ... ...Her preconception of St. Peter’s was a structure of no definite out- line, misty in its architecture, dim and gray and huge, stretch- ing into an inte... ... of radiance, traversing what seemed the empty space, were made visible in misty glory, by the holy cloud of in- cense, else unseen, which had risen i... ...than prose; and when I go home to America, I will suggest it to one of our poets. Or seven poets might write the poem together, each lighting a separa...

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... of milk, and set off to explore the neighbourhood of Bouchet. It was perishing cold, a grey, windy, wintry morning; misty clouds flew fast and low; t... ...ind. The greater part of poetry is about the stars; and very justly, for they are themselves the most classi- cal of poets. These same far-away worlds... ...d here and there breaking out into a coro- nal of cliffs. The sun, which was still far from setting, sent a drift of misty gold across the hill-tops, ...

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...ng up with their lives, making the commonplace day of grown people a rich, misty, glancing orb of fairy land to themselves. Ned, forgetting or not rea... ...arning that refines other minds,— the critical acquaintance with the great poets and historians of antiquity, and apparently an appreciation of their ... ...ter into his dream and modify it. He kept his eyes closed, and fell into a misty state, in which he wondered whether this could be the panacea or medi... ...e, at best,” said Redclyffe, trying to discover some definite point in his misty reminis cences. “I am a stranger to this country, and was on a pedes... ...of a mediaval king; but the general effect was rich and good, whenever the misty English atmosphere supplied sunshine bright enough to per vade it. T...

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...ifficult to discover. It was only later on that Winnie obtained from him a misty and confused confession. It seems that two other office-boys in the b... ...or by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the companion of poets, reformers, charlatans, prophets, and incendiaries. Lost for a whole ... ...ent The cabman, pausing in his deliberate movements, seemed struck by some misty recollection. “Oh! `Ere you are, young fellow,” he whispered. “Y ou’l... ...y. And she was sincere. And on each side of her thin red nose her bleared, misty eyes swam in tears, because she felt really the want of some sort of ... ...nges and lemons, and Brett Place was all darkness, inter- spersed with the misty halos of the few lamps defining its trian- gular shape, with a cluste...

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...r grandfather’s poems—”we don’t even print as well as they did, and as for poets or painters or novelists—there are none; so, at any rate, I’m not sin... ...flower that any family can boast, a great writer, a poet eminent among the poets of England, a Richard Alardyce; and having pro- duced him, they prove... ...nd fasting in the Church. In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of ... ...e- place hung a photograph of her grandfather’s tomb in 29 Virginia Woolf Poets’ Corner, and she was told in one of those moments of grown-up confide... ... his poems. She had sat on his knee in taverns and other haunts of drunken poets, and it was for her sake, so people said, that he had cured himself o... ...oughts danc- ing incongruously; and by the time she was crossing the great misty square of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, she was cold and depressed again, and... ...she not simply tell him the truth—which was that she had accepted him in a misty state of mind when nothing had its right shape or size? that it was d...

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... he probably would not have one. That, Virtue, as had been observed by the poets (in many passages which he well knew the jury would have, word for wo... ...e resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say ... ...ith his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, that he was in some misty way asking himself, “Why not?” The sagacity of the man of business pe... ...Bank win dows, for all who ran through Temple Bar to read. On a steaming, misty afternoon, Mr. Lorry sat at his desk, and Charles Darnay stood leanin... ...and went out with him from the warm atmo sphere of the old Bank, into the misty air of Fleet street. “My love to Lucie, and to little Lucie,” said Mr... ... to avoid any very excited group of talkers. It was a raw evening, and the misty river, blurred to the eye with blazing lights and to the ear with har...

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...cupids, quarrelling, sporting, working at trades; the atrical rehearsals; poets reading their productions to their friends; inscriptions chalked upon... ...teep and lofty hill above the little town of San Germano, and is lost on a misty morning in the clouds. So much the better, for the deep sounding of i... ...tal, side by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, Rembrandt, Raphael, Poets, Historians, Philoso phers—those illustrious men of history, beside ...

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...he window watching the moon set through the trees of the park. The sky was misty and starless, and after the moon went down the night was pitch black.... ... muscle, bone, and artery; who have sucked its very soul from the pages of poets and human- ists; who have wept and believed with Joachim of Flora, sm...

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...en the scene of some unfortunate accidents. It was a wet morning, and very misty, and we soon lost sight of land. The day was calm, however, and brigh... ... would heave in sight: looming, perhaps, the very spirit of a ship, in the misty distance, or passing us so close that through our glasses we could se... ...are for poetry:’ though we DO, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholes...

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... it now. I will tell you what it will be like. I once saw the Church, on a misty day, from a great distance. It was about the middle of the day, and t... ...ys in one of his letters, that he wishes there could be a whole village of poets and antiquaries isolated from the rest of the world. That must be lik...

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...ld woman with her fowl-like cry and limbs in the air, and the row over the misty river, swam flashing before my eyes, and I cried out to the two girls... ...in the direction of Pagan Gods and Goddesses, and heathen histo- rians and poets; adding, it was not new to him, and perhaps that was why the world wa... ...on earth. Kunst, Wissenschaft, Ehre, Liebe. Die Liebe. Quick at the German poets. Frau: Fraulein. I am actually dazzled at the prospect of our future.... ...y moonlight with matter for a year of laughter, sing- ing like two Arabian poets praises of dark and fair, challengeing one to rival the other. Kiomi!... ...gs she had uttered to Heriot. She answered, ‘Oh, I think I got them out of poets and chapters about lovemaking, or I felt it very much. And that’s wha... ...rs, Richie, the noble lady’s. She shall govern the intellectual world—your poets, 367 George Meredith your painters, your men of science. They reflec...

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... me.” 36 The American “You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen for whom... ...e, but it is one of the last I shall have.” And she paused, with her great misty eyes fixed upon him. “I know how I have deceived and injured you; I k... ..., when a ray of entreaty ap- peared to disengage itself from the old man’s misty gaze. “Are you going away?” he asked. “Do you want me to stay?” said ...

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...n, and Argol? Do not Christians and Hea- thens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?” “Communis... ...lieves Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the ... ... is a d-d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madd... ...ced him to doubt the one as the other. With these feelings, and in a thick misty day, which was already drawing to its close, Dominie Sampson did not ...

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...sion, from which he never afterwards departed, that all the fancies of the poets, and lessons of the sages, were a mere collection of words and gramma... ...e creature of cir- cumstances, that a dry day covered him with dust, and a misty day peppered him with little bits of soot, and a wet day bright- ened... ... does you credit, my lad.’ The old Instrument-maker is more distraught and misty than he used to be, and takes the marriage and the parting very much ... ...ustomers not coming, but looks very jovial and con- tented, though full as misty as of yore. As to his partner, Captain Cuttle, there is a fiction of ...

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...ad been, now sent out boisterous shouts and clouds of smoke; and, from the misty win dows, clusters of broad red faces looked down upon the road. On ... ... honour, ma’am, you’ll find in a certain angle of that dreary pile, called Poets’ Corner, a few smaller names than Slum,’ retorted that gentle man, t...

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...tions as naturally occurred to him, being a stranger, about the na- tional poets, the theatre, literature, and the arts. But the informa- tion which t... ...ere fatal maladies, seeking whom they might infect, came forth at night in misty shapes, and creeping out upon the water, hunted them like spectres un... ... piece of justice, though it is upheld by the authority of divers profound poets and honourable men, bears a nearer resemblance to the justice of that... ...ooking upward for the current of some half-remembered legend; words of old poets, wedded to such mea- sures that the strain of music might have been t...

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...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike ... ...n the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew; There poets find materials for their books, And every now and then we read ... ...’ve told you fifty times,’ They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, ‘I’ve written fifty rhymes,’ They make you dread that they... ...o’er the controulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and... ...return With many other warriors, as we said, Unto that rather somewhat misty bourn, Which Hamlet tells us is a pass of dread. To Jack howe...

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...mote—that the orchestra had with- drawn behind a hill, and the scene grown misty, like the carelessly painted-in background of a picture. And from tha... ...sty, like the carelessly painted-in background of a picture. And from that misty void there could be seen glimmering only the delicate outlines of the... ...erved— the phenomenon of the Chichikovs of this world becoming temporarily poets. At all events, for a moment or two our Chichikov felt that he was a ... ...een; while beyond, again, there can be seen show- ing through the slightly misty air strips of yellow heath, and, again, wide-rolling forests (as blue... ... else a reading aloud of a brilliant page of one of those inspired Russian poets with whom God has dowered us, while the breast of each member of the ... ...ye of fate—an eye which had always seemed to be regarding him as through a misty, mournful, frost- encrusted window-pane, and to be mocking at his str...

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... velvety moss. The dark country about him he was unable to see, the faint, misty picture of the schoolroom blotting it out, but he had a feel- ing (du... ...my to read in Landport, and he was too poor to buy books, but the stock of poets in the library was extensive, and Hill’s attack was magnificently sus...

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...lity of the Iliad and the Odyssey cast into oblivion whatever pre- Homeric poets had essayed, so these same qualities exercised a paralysing influence... ...ium without loss of individuality: and this quality none of the later epic poets seem to have pos- sessed. Freedom from the domination of the great tr... ...poetry shows two diver- gent tendencies. In Ionia and the islands the epic poets fol- lowed the Homeric tradition, singing of romantic subjects in the... ...ate form in which it still survives. Finally the contest, in which the two poets contended with hymns to Apollo (4), was transferred to Delos. These d... ... for uncomfortable sea-faring seize you; when the Pleiades plunge into the misty sea (33) to escape Orion’s rude strength, then truly gales of all kin... ...ce who with Cymatolege (12) and Amphitrite easily calms the waves upon the misty sea and the blasts of raging winds, and Cymo, and Eione, and rich- cr... ...at sufferings you are come back to the light from your cruel bondage under misty gloom through our counsels.’ (ll. 654-663) So he said. And blameless ... ... the counsel of Zeus who drives the clouds the Titan gods are hidden under misty gloom, in a dank place where are the ends of the huge earth. And they... ...nd there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus and the un- fruitful sea and starry heaven, loathsome and da...

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...rest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the chil dren of Aurora, and emit their... ... such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read th... ...nian. Wise midnight bags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual cons... ...althy, and wise? This foreign bird’s note is celebrated by the Walden 117 poets of all countries along with the notes of their native songsters. All ... ...p but that the reflection from the bottom tinges them, its waters are of a misty bluish green or glau cous color. Many years since I used to go there... ... wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon an sw... ...wly about with their wolfish dogs, passed for sealers, or Esquimaux, or in misty weather loomed like fabulous creatures, and I did not know whether th... ...nks in the scale of being are filled. When I strolled around the pond in misty weather I was sometimes amused by the primitive mode which some ruder... ..., we should live quite laxly and un defined in front our outlines dim and misty on that side; as our shadows reveal an insensible perspiration toward...

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... towards the objects among which he passed, of seeing the iris round every misty light turn red—he went home for shelter. CHAPTER XIII—RACHAEL A CAND... ...The Hours did not go through any of those rosy performances, which foolish poets have ascribed to them at such times; neither did the clocks go any fa...

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... TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY O CLOUD PALE eyelids, dream dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overt... ...ECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TO A POET, WHO WOULD HA VE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND MINE YOU say, as I have often given tongue In p... ... 1914 98 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS RESPONSIBILITIES THE GREY ROCK Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here... ...nous, Great works constructed there in nature’s spite For scholars and for poets after us, Thoughts long knitted into a single thought, A dance like g... ...ang no more as when, like a brown bee That has drunk full, she crossed the misty sea With me in her white arms a hundred years Before this day; for no... ...ade Time and Death and Sleep: the other Stretched his long arm to where, a misty smother, The stream churned, churned, and churned — his lips apart, A... ...art, As though he told his never slumbering heart Of every foamdrop on its misty way. Tying the horse to his vast foot that lay Half in the unvesselle... ... Beneath had paced content: we held our way And stood within: clothed in a misty ray I saw a foam white seagull drift and float Under the roof, and wit... ...m, O morning star Trembling in the blue heavens like a white fawn Upon the misty border of the wood, Bend lower, that I may cover you with my hair, Fo...

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... matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexa- tion, hindranc... ...ve expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works,... ...n the Sun new ris’n Paradise Lost Milton 15 Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disas...

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...ene and silent art, as painting has been called by one of our first living poets, necessarily appealed to the eye, because it had not the organs for a... ...the unfortunate Lucy Ashton. This melancholy ceremony was performed in the misty dawn of an autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremo...