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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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...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ... Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpublished. “It is impossi... ...a? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of ... ... to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an appre- hension of any possible... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...whale, which I include in the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English w... ...ence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomle... ...kes a man who regards them both with equal eye. CHAPTER 86 The Tail O THER POETS HA VE WARBLED the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lo...

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...d it is plain that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who had Gongora for their chief. Navarrete, who knew nothing of the l... ...he chivalry- romance readers, the sentimentalists, the dramatists, and the poets of the period all against him, it was because “Don Quixote” was what ... ...obably due to the influ- ence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets. When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all th... ...ets whose authors are dukes, marquises, counts, bishops, ladies, or famous poets. Though if I were to ask two or three obliging friends, I know they w... ...m- peror of Trebizond, who, to my knowledge, were said to have been famous poets: and even if they were not, and any pedants or bach- elors should att... ...is doing good to all. In the dim caverns of the gloomy Dis, Where, tracing mystic lines and characters, My soul abideth now, there came to me The sorr...

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...ophanes, and was present at the contest, there periodi- cally held, of the poets, who took at that time no other theme or subject than the actions of ... ...tame ser- pents about her, which sometimes creeping out of the ivy and the mystic fans, sometimes winding themselves about the sacred spears, and the ... ...gnified he should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labor and sweat to describe and cel- ebr... ...f their happiest suc- cesses, the presence of the shapes and voices of the mystic ceremonies had been vouchsafed to them, striking terror and amazemen... ...e a small eye-sore, from the port of Piraeus, should breed good actors and poets, and yet should never be able to produce a just, temperate, wise, and... ...ime; but his verses are forgotten and out of all repute, so many ingenious poets having followed him. Leaving his juvenile studies, he became an audit...

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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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...l as a stu- dent of art, and the subconscious had few secrets from him. No mystic ever saw deeper meaning in common things. The mystic sees the ineffa... ...uplets. Then came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed... ... all very romantic. It gave me an intimate sense of being a member of some mystic brotherhood. Chapter IV NO ONE WA S KINDER to me at that time than R... ...re, and he did not know how to put it into com- mon terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable. But one fact he made clear to me;...

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...t see- ing Doctor Lombard’s Leonardo. Lombard is a queer old Englishman, a mystic or a madman (if the two are not synony- mous), and a devout student ... ...e famous definition of Hamlet’s character in Wilhelm Meister. Here are the mystic rose, the flame, and the serpent, emblem of eternity. Some of the ot... ... 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... ...dropping his voice to the pitch of hers. She shook her head, gazing at him mystically. “I can’t lock him out; I can never lock him out now. I told you...

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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... ...l judge might have assured him that his chief hope of recovery lay in this mystic temper, which identified a living woman with much that no hu- man be... ... ap- peared to him to justify their relationship. But the con- clusion was mystical; it plunged him into thought. The difficulty with which even this ... ..., giving her by a sudden impulse his own unfinished dissertation, with its mystical con- clusion, they read each other’s compositions in silence. Kath...

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...n this occasion. As they carried him along, he blessed the people with the mystic sign; and as he passed them, they kneeled down. When he had made the... ...cupids, quarrelling, sporting, working at trades; the atrical rehearsals; poets reading their productions to their friends; inscriptions chalked upon... ...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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...chimney place. It seemed impossible to move without breaking some of these mystic threads. Spiders crept familiarly towards you and walked leisurely a... ...arning that refines other minds,— the critical acquaintance with the great poets and historians of antiquity, and apparently an appreciation of their ... ...stance with the supporting tree. On one venerable oak there was a plant of mystic leaf, which the traveller knew by instinct, and plucked a bough of i...

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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 ... ... and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of hu- man life. While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infant’s life beginning, Dimly seen throu... ... 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... ..., his chivalrous point of honour, his high talents, and his ab- struse and mystic studies—You should have had Lucy Bertram too for your friend, whose ... ...ram’s right and Bertram’s might Shall meet on Ellangowan’s height.’ A most mystic epistle truly, and closes in a vein of poetry wor- thy of the Cumaea...

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...rans. Up on the lion! Down with the destroyer!” said he, shaking aloft his mystic abacus, as if in defiance of the powers of dark- ness—“Thy daughter ... ... Temple, in full and ample robes of flowing white, holding in his hand the mystic staff, which bore the symbol of the Order. At his feet was placed a ... ...ssary food!—Is there no leech here who can tell us the ingredients of this mystic unguent?” T wo mediciners, as they called themselves, the one a monk... ...seemed to look upward for a reply —that her garments were of a strange and mystic form, unlike those of women of good repute—that she had rings impres... ...blazing pile—dispersed to the ele- ments of which our strange forms are so mystically com- posed—not a relic left of that graceful frame, from which w... ...ech bearing some affinity to the Italian, pronounced the same word oc. The poets of the former race were called Minstrels, and their poems Lays: those...

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...s overdrawn and fantastical, and the thread of the story loses itself in a mystical allegory. ‘Redburn,’ already mentioned, succeeded ‘Mardi’ in the s... ...logies. ‘Clarel, a Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land’ (1876), is a long mystical poem requiring, as some one has said, a dictionary, a cyclopaedia,... ... was sacred. The sign of the inscrutable T aboo was seen in the shape of a mystic roll of white tappa, suspended by a twisted cord of the same materia... ...riven to de- spair; nothing but the utter ruin of my ‘face divine’, as the poets call it, would, I perceived, satisfy the inexorable Mehevi and his ch... ...might wear a sort of freemason badge upon my countenance in the shape of a mystic triangle. However, I would have none of these, though the king most ...

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...ound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the palace and canal seemed like a landing- place in the Arabian Nigh... ...nd complete, a new and ruder Amphion having called it from nothing with three cracks of a rifle. And the next morning the same conjurer obliged us wit...

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...or by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the companion of poets, reformers, charlatans, prophets, and incendiaries. Lost for a whole ... ...tion eminently proper for any business undertaken by Mr V erloc, who, by a mystic ac- cord of temperament and necessity, had been set apart to be a se...

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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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...umpery,’ said Gillian, making a youthfully sweeping assertion. ‘Many great poets have begun with a periodical press,’ said Dolores, picking up a sente... ...and with the true Sphynx head, surrounded with beetles, lizards, and other mystic creatures (very chocolate-coloured). And beside her stood the Herr P...

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...ct Sound and entire, mark well the lore conceal’d Under close texture of the mystic strain! And now there came o’er the perturbed waves The Divin... ...e feet, and the huge belly fledge with wings These sit and wail on the drear mystic wood. The kind instructor in these words began: “Ere farther ... ... Che non sia al fin sempre amato chi ama. Indeed many of the Italian poets have repeated this verse. v. 105. Caina.] The place to which murde... ...her it has been remarked, that the crime of usury is branded by both these poets as offensive to God and Nature: or that the sin for which Brunetto... ...nte is himself enumerated, by the historian of Italian literature, among the poets of his time. Tiraboschi, Storia della Lett. Ital. t. v. 1. iii. c.... ...nry II. of England. Bertrand holds a distinguished place among the Provencal poets. He is quoted in Dante, “De Vulg. Eloq.” l. ii. c. 2. For the trans... ...entioned by Archbishop Turpin. He is a common instance of treachery with the poets of the middle ages. Trop son fol e mal pensant, Pi... ...g, of that heav’nly shower. Him, who lives ever, and for ever reigns In mystic union of the Three in One, Unbounded, bounding all, each spirit th... ...onastery of that name at Paris and died in 1173. “He was at the head of the Mystics in this century and his treatise, entitled the Mystical Ark, wh...

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...mitation thrice removed from the truth, and Homer, as well as the dramatic poets, having been con demned as an imitator, is sent into banishment alon... ...which I should like to ask of you who have arrived at that time which the poets call the ‘threshold of old age’— Is life harder towards the end, or w... ...r proper to him—that is to say, evil. Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he r... ...way of speaking about justice and injustice, which is not confined to the poets, but is found in prose writers. The universal voice of mankind is al... ...d incantations binding heaven, as they say, to execute their will. And the poets are the authorities to whom they appeal, now smoothing the path of v... ...e smoke be neath the earth. And,— As bats in hollow of mystic cavern, whenever any of the has dropped out of the string ...

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...hall lose it of myself, I fancy. Some drivelling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base. It’s a feature of th... ...he wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would no... ...h is hidden from us, but to make up for that we have been given a precious mystic sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heave... ...t is not given to many but only to the elect. (i) Of Hell and Hell Fire, a Mystic Reflection. Fathers and teachers, I ponder, “What is hell?” I ma...

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...Poe in Five V olumes the grace and symmetry of the outline are such as few poets ever attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it. TO HELEN Helen, t... ...t of a geometrical diagram. For this reason Mr. Poe has no sympa- thy with Mysticism. The Mystic dwells in the mystery, is envel- oped with it; it col... ...he sun! Well and strenuously sung! The populace are hailing him ‘Prince of Poets,’ as well as ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Mos... ...-footed patriots seems to be for eating up the cameleopard. ‘The Prince of Poets,’ therefore, is upon his hinder legs, running for his life. His court... ...thou art Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus the Illustrious! — also ‘Prince of Poets,’ ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Most Remarkabl...

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...inister is a fool, because he has acquired renown as a poet. All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio... ...e is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.” 15 V olume Two “But is this really the poet?” I asked. “... ... the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn—a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking... ...e more forcibly impressed with it, as he gave it, because, in the under or mystic current of its meaning, I fancied that I perceived, and for the firs...

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...h came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated the whole ?cycle? of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have survived; but the story of what befell between Hector?s funeral and the taking of Troy is told in detail, and well told, in a poem about half as long as the Iliad....

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...d the whole “cycle” of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have survived; but the story of what befell be... ... ring of his music, and he perhaps had before him the works of those Cyclic Poets whose stars had paled before the sun. We have practically no extern... ...more than an amplification or remodel ling of the works of these two Cyclic Poets.” This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as the only remains... ... This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as the only remains of these poets consist of fragments amounting to no more than a very few lines fro... ...stify us in the conclusion that, even if Quintus had the works of the Cyclic poets before him, which is far from certain, his poem was no mere remod ... ...mbered, indistinguishably blent. These no Immortal seeth; they are veiled In mystic cloud folds. Only Fate puts forth Her hands thereto, nor looks at...

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...must be permitted to call queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hy... ...ough and through with a Paixhan bomb, or knocked him in the head with the “Poets and Poetry of America,” he could hardly have been more discomfited th... ...Bon-Bon did begin at length to assume a character of strange intensity and mysticism, and appeared deeply tinctured with the diablerie of his favorite... ...blest—and, speaking of Fancy—one of the most singularly fanciful of modern poets, was Thomas Hood. His “Fair Ines” had always for me an inexpressible ... ... cite only a very brief specimen. I call him, and think him the noblest of poets, not because the impressions he produces are at all times the most pr... ...ed that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing ... ...e. 1845. THE SLEEPER At midnight in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, ... ...ry fops glance from the binding to the bottom of the title-page, where the mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so man... ...d shouting with a thousand rills. I spoke to her of power and pride, But mystically—in such guise That she might deem it nought beside The moment’...

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...ie or damned souls knocking themselves to pieces in the stuffy darkness of mystical contra- dictions. They are human beings, fit to live, fit to suffe... ...y poetry. Meantime, unblushing, unseen, and often unheard, the guile- less poets have gone on singing in a sweet strain. How they dare do the impossib... ...in wrote The Loves of the Plants and a scoffer The Loves of the Triangles, poets have been sup- posed to be indecorously blind to the progress of scie... ...ld Man of the Sea, still faces us with its old stupidity, with its strange mystical arrogance, stamping its shadowy feet upon the gravestone of autocr... ...one into the blood, tainting every mental activity in its source by a half-mystical, insensate, fascinating assertion of purity and holiness. The Gove... ... at one time went about (mostly in newspapers) preaching the gospel of the mystic sanctity of its sac- rifices, and the regenerating power of spilt bl... ... was ex- pected to make friends suddenly and kiss it on both cheeks in the mystic Russian fashion. It was a singu- larly nightmarish combination of in...

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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,... ... fixt in thir Orb that flies, And yee five other wandring Fires that move In mystic Dance not without Song, resound His praise, who out of Darkness ca... ...y, as other solem dayes, they spent In song and dance about the sacred Hill, Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare Of Planets and of fixt in al... ...f reviv’d ADONIS, or renownd ALCINOUS, host of old LAERTES Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire EGYPTIAN Spo...

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...x, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!’ The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical ar- ticle, is not to be conceived. The first defi... ...airest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the ... ...er in the evolving of the vague idea of the philo- sophic, and find in the mystic parable that tells of the tree of knowledge, and of its forbidden fr... ... not meet for man in the in- fant condition of his soul. And these men—the poets—living and perishing amid the scorn of the “utilitarians” —of rough p... ... which could have been properly applied only to the scorned—these men, the poets, pondered piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our ...

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...ceremony , the empire became divided against itself.[“Musings of a Chinese Mystic.” Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu. With an Introduction... ...n of its utility would be invaluable. Whoever will observe how many of our poets have been men of private means will realize how much poetic capacity ...

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...t, made their appearance in New England. Their repu- tation, as holders of mystic and pernicious principles, having spread before them, the Puritans e... ...s been told far and wide, and will forever be a legend of these mountains. Poets have sung their fate. There were circumstances which led some to supp...

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...ressiveness of a fine quota- tion from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as b... ...t was trying to justify her delight in the colors by merg- ing them in her mystic religious joy. “You would like those, Dorothea,” said Celia, rather ... ...h to a plunge which his stream would afford him; and he concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion. Nevertheless, he... ...o write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.” “Y ou will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.” “W ell, tell me... ... made life interesting quite apart from the cultus of horseflesh and other mystic rites of costly observance, which the eight hundred pounds left him ... ...hese sights of his youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a rel... ...ight and making the struggle with darkness narrower.” “That is a beautiful mysticism—it is a—” “Please not to call it by any name,” said Dorothea, put...