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............................................. 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ........................................................................ ...gether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we t... ..., or erred in any particular point: and can it then be wondered at, if the poets in general seem resolved not to own them- 2 ‘Preface:’ to the miscel... ... ill temper. I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad poets. What we call a genius, is hard to be distinguished by a man himself ... ...he ethereal Spirit o’er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove. Ye Heavens! from high the dewy nectar pour, And in soft silenc... ...up in equal proportions of Pagan Platonism, Christian Quietism, and Jewish Mysticism. See Bulwer’s ‘Zanoni.’ Pope has blended some of its elements wit... ... 90 ‘Oft, when the world imagine women stray, The Sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way, Through all the giddy circle they pursue, And... ... 120 And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With hea... ...nd Shock was most unkind! A Sylph too warn’d me of the threats of Fate, In mystic visions, now believed too late. See the poor remnants of these sligh...

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...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, aft...

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...bout the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched... ...ion? The elements of it are all here. And he tapped his forehead with that mystic confidence which had marked the gesture before. “If I could only tra...

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...endix parison, that it suggests the remembrance of the fact—that the great poets have usually been themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It ... ...themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It has not made them great poets; but they would not be great poets without it. And when Eugenie Grand... ...at we see in Dante and Shakespeare, in Chaucer and Tennyson. But the great poets do not as a rule accumulate detail. Balzac does, and from this very a... ... Grand homme de province a Paris, 1re partie Lost Illusions:—I. The T wo Poets A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 1 Illusions Perdues:—II. ... ...the two previous centuries. As we read the extraordinary writ- ings of the mystics who studied the sciences in their relation to infinity, such as Swe... ...stianity (see the letter from Paris in “Louis Lambert,” in which the young mystic ex- plains, a propos to Swedenborg’s doctrines, how there has never ...

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... to the Anthropopha- gous bosom, arose there mysteriously under Clothes; a mystic grove-encircled shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us individu... ...o him: nay perhaps he has an insight into their more recondite, and almost mystic qualities, what we might call the omnipotent virtue of Clothes, such... ...n our fellow-man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the high Platonic Mysticism of our Author, which is perhaps the fundamen- tal element of his ... ...y clouds soon roll together again, and hide it from view. Such tendency to Mysticism is everywhere traceable in this man; and indeed, to attentive rea... ...es look through him, then he may be useful. “Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou callest... ...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...

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...f I am reproached for impotence in this attempt to draw from the depths of mysticism a book which seeks to give, in the lucid transparency of our beau... ... meditations which have given birth to so many pro- found theories, to the mystic dreams of the North, to its beliefs, to its studies (so full and so ... ...e eagle’s cry was hushed; “it is like the music of those Eolian harps your poets hang in forests and on the mountains. Do you see the shad- owy figure... ...words of his greatest disciple, ‘Flesh is but an external propagation.’ To poets and to writers his presentation of the marvellous is amazing; to Seer... ...s trees, his gardens where the flowers speak and the air is white, and the mystical stones, the sard, carbuncle, chrysolite, chrysoprase, jacinth, cha... ...r life are unknown; she is seldom seen; her days are spent in the state of mystical contemplation which was, so Catholic writers tell us, habitual wit... ...r parents be- queathed to her that fatal exaltation of soul which misleads mystics and renders them all more or less mad. She subjects herself to fast... ...e whose colors and masses are skilfully and harmoniously marshalled by the poets, and whose personages, imaginary actors to men, are real to those who... ... them; none were prompted by any human interest. Your great geniuses, your poets, your kings, your learned men are engulfed with their cities; while t...

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... the deities, angels, or demons are made to act in a poem; for the ancient poets are in one respect like many mod- ern ladies: let an action be never ... ...er at a beau. Oft, when the world imagine women stray, The Sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way, Through all the giddy circle they pursue, And... ... head. And now, unveiled, the toilet stands displayed, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With hea... ...nd Shock was most unkind! A Sylph too warned me of the threats of fate, In mystic visions, now believed too late! See the poor remnants of these sligh...

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...ce of the bridal bed. His torch’s pale flame serves to gild The scene with mystic sacred glow; The room with incense-clouds is fil’d, That ye may perf... ...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 ... ...ion Held the strong desire I felt to wake her Firmer and firmer down, with mystic fetters. “Oh, thou love,” methought, “I see that slumber, Slumber th... ...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... ...-fraught emotion, As though from death a living fount were springing. What mystic joy I felt! What rapt devotion! That form, how pregnant with a godli... ...None resembleth another, yet all their forms have a likeness; Therefore, a mystical law is by the chorus proclaim’d; Yes, a sacred enigma! Oh, dearest... ...ered speaks louder and louder to thee; But if thou here canst decipher the mystic words of the goddess, Everywhere will they be seen, e’en though the ...

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...r, are you not charmed to be in this famous neighbourhood, in this land of poets and heroes, of whose history your classical edu- cation ought to have... ...to me, that I can’t at present reconcile myself to you in age. I read your poets, but it was in fear and trembling; and a cold sweat is but an ill acc... ...er four were playing with a dirty pack of cards, at a barrack that English poets have christened the “Half-way House. ”Does external nature and beauty... ... Temple of Victory; or a discourse of Plato as polished and calm as yonder mystical portico of the Erechtheum:what treasures of the senses and delight... ...erly to the people before him, whose devotions he had marked; quotes their poets, to bring them to think of the God unknown, whom they had ignorantly ... ...n landing in Egypt. I was ready to yield myself up with so- lemnity to the mystic grandeur of the scene of initiation. Pompey’s Pillar must stand like... ...! ! There they lay, rosy and solemn in the distance—those old, majestical, mystical, familiar edifices. Several of us tried to be impressed; but break... ...h temples in their eyes) do not exceed its noble grace and simplicity. The mystics make discoveries at home, that the Gothic architec- ture is Catholi... ...le to destroy. —No: be that work for great geniuses, great painters, great poets!This quill was never made to take such flights; it comes of the wing ...

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...re Nizam-ul-Mulk’ s generosity raised him to in- dependence. Many Persian poets similarly derive their names from their occupations; thus we have Att... ...d, and whose Faith amounts to little more than his own, when stript of the Mysticism and formal rec- ognition of Islamism under which Omar would not h... ...nd formal rec- ognition of Islamism under which Omar would not hide. Their Poets, including Hafiz, who are (with the exception of Firdausi) the most c... ... Persia, borrowed largely, indeed, of Omar’s material, but turning it to a mystical Use more convenient to Themselves and the People they addressed; a... ... to be the ma- terial Epicurean that I have literally taken him for, but a Mystic, shadowing the Deity under the figure of Wine, Wine-bearer, &c., as ... .... 12 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam sect, which already comprises all the chief Poets of Persia. What historical Authority has Mons. Nicolas to show that O... ...ragingly named. No doubt many of these Quatrains seem unaccountable unless mystically interpreted; but many more as unaccount- able unless literally. ... ...ps of the dead clay to be filled with— “La Divinite,” by some suc- ceeding Mystic? Mons. Nicolas himself is puzzled by some “bizarres” and “trop Orie... ...calling him by his—no, not Christian—familiar name) from all other Persian Poets: That, whereas with them the Poet is lost in his Song, the Man in All...

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... something positive and defined; where the poetry enthroned upon an almost mystic brow seemed belied at times by the pleasure- loving expression of th... ...pon any writer who takes four alexandrines to express one idea. Of all the poets of our day only three, Hugo, Theophile Gautier, and De Vigny, have be... ...k hearts live, by their actions and in their hidden lives, the poetry that poets utter. They are poets themselves in soul, in tenderness, in their lon... ...s in soul, in tenderness, in their lonely vigils and meditations,—as truly poets as others of the name on paper, who fatten in the fields of literatur... ...s a hero of some gay re- sort. In the bower of clematis where you dream of poets, can you smell the odor of the cigar which drives all poetry from the... ...d to paint all? What reality can equal imagination? The young girls of the poets are so ideal that no living daughter of Eve can compete with them. An... ...ught voluntarily in the olden time? No, she asks a perfectly spiritual and mystic alliance. Come to me when you are unhappy, wounded, weary. Tell me a... ...e of those divine figures sketched by the masters on the shutters of their mystic shrines, and who, when Germany lost him, should have retired to some... ...he black mandragora.” Modeste suddenly found herself brought down from the mystic heights of her love to a straight, flat road bordered with ditches,—...

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... burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund, one of the early Chris... ...abia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done, Poets sang for prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that. One Jewish qu... ...h us understanding. T o know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act,—of which the best Logics can but babble on the surface. “Is not... ... of Poet and Prophet.— In ancient and also in modern periods we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect; whom it were a kind of treason to find fau... ... in the hearts of all men; no man is made altogether of Poetry. We are all poets when we read a poem well. The “imagination that shudders 72 Thomas C... ...ante: so he looks, this “voice of ten silent centuries,” and sings us “his mystic unfathomable song.” The little that we know of Dante’s Life correspo... ...ooding over it in speechless thought and awe, bursts forth at length into “mystic unfathomable song; “ and this his Divine Comedy, the most remarkable... ...tive shores.” I said, Dante’s Poem was a Song: it is Tieck who calls it “a mystic unfathomable Song;” and such is literally the charac- ter of it. Col... ...not dead, yet living voiceless. On the whole, is it not an utterance, this mystic Song, at once of one of the greatest human souls, and of the highest...

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...hee more barbarous; thy study of humanity more inhuman; thy converse among poets more grovel ling, miry, and dull. All arts of civilising others rend... ...l speak no farther of it. I shall add but one prediction more, and that in mystical terms, which shall be included in a verse out of Virgil Alter er... ...antry for humour pass. To make men act as senseless wood, And chatter in a mystic strain, Is a mere force on flesh and blood, And shows some error in ... ...lt on t’other sex. That modern love is no such thing As what those ancient poets sing; A fire celestial, chaste, refined, Conceived and kindled in the... ... morrow, ere the setting sun, She’d all undo that she had done. But in the poets we may find A wholesome law, time out of mind, Had been confirmed by ... ...w, this is Stella’s case in fact, An angel’s face, a little cracked (Could poets, or could painters fix How angels look at, thirty six): This drew us ... ...4 As when a beauteous nymph decays, We say she’s past her dancing days; So poets lose their feet by time, And can no longer dance in rhyme. Your annua...

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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 ... ...age is rustled while we look, So by the poesy of his own mind Over the mystic leaf his soul was shook, As if ‘t were one whereon magicians b... ...low’d in her cheek, and yet she felt no wrong. Oh Love! how perfect is thy mystic art, Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong, Ho... ...’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... ... never vanish) The basquina and the mantilla, they Seem at the same time mystical and gay. But with our damsel this was not the case: Her dr... ... hollow, when the wind Walks o’er it, was she shaken by the dream, The mystical usurper of the mind — O’erpowering us to be whate’er may seem ... ... come again Unto the new creation, rising out From our old crash, some mystic, ancient strain Of things destroy’d and left in airy doubt: ...

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... by inference sharply in contrast to the balder speech of to-day. Here the mystic suppressed the woman, though her heart leaped up over children,—radi... ...nd influence on my life than anything else that any one has ever written.” Mystic to mystic, mind to mind, spirit to spirit, dust to dust. She was at ... ... with gales, Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails; By what mystic mooring She is held to-day,— This is the errand of the eye Out upon ... ...rth evoked it. “Creator! shall I bloom?” XLIX BESIDES the autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side... ...y enforce thee, Passenger of Infinity! 296 LXXXVII HER “Last Poems”— Poets ended, Silver perished with her tongue, Not on record bubbled other F...

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...broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.’ She ended here, and b... ...ve her drooped a lamp, And made the single jewel on her brow Burn like the mystic fire on a mast-head, Prophet of storm: a handmaid on each side Bowe... ...e.’ 54 The Princess VI My dream had never died or lived again. As in some mystic middle state I lay; Seeing I saw not, hearing not I heard: Though, i... ...happy sleep. Deep in the night I woke: she, near me, held A volume of the Poets of her land: There to herself, all in low tones, she read. ‘Now sl...

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... become generally available. If Shelley is less fortunate than most modern poets in the purity of his text, he is more fortunate than many in the pres... ...ll be only appreciated by minds which have resemblance to his own; and the mystic subtlety of many of his thoughts will share the same fate. The metap... ...hat pass away. For thou hast earned a mighty boon, The truths which wisest poets see _85 Dimly, thy mind may make i... ...Mitres, and crowns, and brazen chariots stained With blood, and scrolls of mystic wickedness, The sanguine codes of venerable crime. The likeness of a... ... _650 Of the vast meteor sunk, the Poet’s blood, That ever beat in mystic sympathy With nature’s ebb and flow, grew feebler still: And when tw... ... do not presume to enter into competition with our great- est contemporary Poets. Yet I am unwilling to tread in the footsteps of any who have precede... ...ave considered Poetry in its most compre- hensive sense; and have read the Poets and the Historians and the Metaphysicians (In this sense there may be... ...ondrous years were flown, I was awakened by a shriek of woe; And over me a mystic robe was thrown, By viewless hands, and a bright Star did glow Befor... ...and sand Like spangling gold, and purple shells engraven _2940 With mystic legends by no mortal hand, Left there, when thronging to the moon’s ...

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...ympathy or diseased curiosity will be plentifully expended. This was a stern mystic flight of the poetical young gentle man. In his milder and softer... ...pens stanzas, which sometimes find their way into a Lady’s Magazine, or the ‘Poets’ Corner’ of some country newspaper; or which, in default of either ... ...a!’ With this, the poetical young gentleman laughs a laugh belonging only to poets and Mr. O. Smith of the Adelphi Theatre, and sits down, pen in hand...

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...t West that they might write a little less for autographs—to all the great poets, you know—and study the thoughts and style a little more.” “What do t... ...nd. Push enquiries.” I did laugh, I’m sure, as I remembered this to be the mystic scroll I had scarcely allowed poor Mr. Morrow to point his umbrella ...

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...o wall while the new boys tried to catch them: when one was seized and the mystic words said—one, two, three, and a pig for me—he became a pris- oner ... ...ently, his mind taken up entirely with the ceremony that was before him, a mystical rapture seized him. His spirit seemed to free itself from the bond... ...ith the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty ... ... immersed himself in the modern French versifiers, and, such a plethora of poets is there in France, he had several new geniuses to tell Philip about.... ... discourse on the subject that beauty is put into things by paint- ers and poets. They create beauty . In themselves there is nothing to choose betwee... ... and it was crowded with traf- fic; Philip thought of the painters and the poets who had made all these things so beautiful, and his heart was filled ... ... Juan de la Cruz, don’t you?” “I don’t indeed.” “He was one of the Spanish mystics. He’s one of the best poets they’ve ever had. I thought it would be... ...t vainly to express itself in painting. He was a man of unusual character, mystical after the fashion of a time that had no leaning to mys- ticism, wh... ...elt a pres- ence invisible and yet manifest to every inner sense. It was a mystical city in which the imagi- nation faltered like one who steps out of...

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... a few bronzes, and some quaintly wrought ornaments of gold, and gems with mystic figures and inscriptions. There, or thereabouts, the line was suppos... ...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... ... 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 ... ... tran- sept, she came to a confessional—the central part was closed, but a mystic room protruded from it, indicating the pres- ence of a priest within... ...the illumination which it needs. Would not this be an admirable idea for a mystic story or parable, or seven-branched allegory, full of poetry, art, p... ...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... ...ttle upon their assistance, and profited by it not at all. Remembering the mystic words which Miriam had ad- dressed to him, he was anxious to meet he... ...nder the influence of an extra flask of wine, might have reeled across the mystic limitation of carnival proprieties. The sculptor heard some people n...