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...” Since Grandfather first spoke these words, the most fa mous of American poets has drawn sweet tears from all of us by his beautiful poem Evangeline... ... a space of twelve miles, from the high grounds of Roxbury on the right to Mystic River on the left. Some were living in tents of 137 Hawthorne sailc...

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... epigrams of this period—some by Callimachus—directed against the “cyclic” poets, by whom were meant at that time those who were always dragging in co... ...newly cut spray of juniper, dipping and drawing untempered charms from her mystic brew, sprinkled his eyes, while she chanted her song; and all around...

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...’s charge. The joy of her love for it was written on its lustrous beds, as poets write. She had the poetic passion for flowers. Perhaps her taste may ... ...ldren to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creations, the inhab- itants... ...re young gentlemen were only to be seen, and perhaps met, in the great and mystic City of London. Naturally, the girls dreamed of London. To educate t... ...on her clouded majesty where she re- clines as upon rose-hued clouds, in a mystic circle of restric- tion (she who laughed at your jokes, and capped t... ...e threw upon the tearful worn face of her sister, Rhoda was impressed by a mystical veneration for this man, and readily believed him to be above all ... ...oda to read; good authors, she emphasized, and named books of history, and poets, and quoted their verses. “For my darling will some day have a dear h...

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...of silk and jewels, in this show-place of a great city’s society—than in a mystic garden of some ro- mantic dreamland. She felt herself a woman again,... ...came for her an actual passion. She delved into Tennyson and the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essayists of Ne... ...how futile it is, how empty, a vanity of vanities. I had imagined that the poets were wrong, were idealists, see- ing the things that should be rather... ...nce—in my heart, in my very hand, like a mysterious, beautiful exotic. The poets are wrong,” he added. “They have not been idealists enough. I wish— a... ...“outpour- ings,” queer little speculations about her soul, quotations from poets, solemn criticisms of new novels, or as often as not mere purposeless...

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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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...di- tating upon the wonder of her existence, like a be- liever lost in the mystic contemplation of his faith. It must not be supposed that all these v... ...eeling a special intensity of existence, that ela- tion common to artists, poets, and lovers—to men haunted by a great passion, a noble thought, or a ... ... fact and event of that evening stood out in his memory as if endowed with mystic significance. If he did not mention to me the colour of the pony whi...

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... 22 Waverley particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction, of all themes the ... ... as an enthusiast, none hinted at his being a hypocrite. This singular and mystical circumstance gave Colonel Gardiner a peculiar and solemn interest ... ...ed, in old and Catholic times, to be invested with certain properties of a mystical and supernatural quality. And though I give not in to such anilia,... ...e wa’, And stately stepped he west. As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the Epithalamium of Georgius Buchanan, and Arthur Jo... ...rds whom the chieftains of more distinguished name and power retain as the poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course, possess various deg... ...ce such effect upon the company to-day,—is he reckoned among the favourite poets of the mountain?’ ‘That is a trying question. His reputation is high ... ... interrupt my long catalogue of the tribes, whom one of your saucy English poets calls Our bootless host of high-born beggars, Mac-Leans, Mac-Kenzies,... ...to his theological discussions, while the pedlar, less profound upon those mystic points, contented himself with groaning, and expressing his edifica-... ...e alto- gether within her own choice to attract or repulse it. There was a mystic tone of encouragement, also, in the Chevalier’s words, though he fea...

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...t, were set to think like boys about him: and the boys, the women, and the poets formed a tipsy chorea. Jour- nalists, on the whole, were fairly halve... ... it in her desk, understanding well that it was a laugh lost to the world. Poets could reasonably 25 George Meredith feign it to shake the desk inclo... ...made visible. That was their endowment of light and lustre simply, and the mystical curve of the lids. For so they could look only because the heart w... ... gentleman’s wild rageing with the word, into which he had not infused the mystic spirit. He poured hot wine and spiced. If not the spirit of love, it... ...ising re- sult, a series of geometrical figures shooting across her brain, mystically expressive of the situation, not communicably. The most vivid an...

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... beauty, for it fell less familiarly on his ear than her passages from the poets. At the end he said: “Yes, that is true poetry. Praise fits well with... ...lf, and given herself the trouble of learning the choicest passages of the poets to repeat to me.” “You are very good, sir,” returned Aurelia; “it is ... ...s final hymn.” “‘When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there with new powers...

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...ntion. I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover appo- site mottoes, and, in the situation of the theatric... ...f pageant, where trite and obvious maxims are made to swagger in lofty and mystic language, and get some credit only because they are not eas- ily und... ...e had been the admiration of the gay circles of life, and the patroness of poets. Dr. Johnson was delighted with his reception here. Her prin- ciples ...

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...ling that I am, compare myself to those intellects, those statesmen, those poets, those heroes?” If there were not some real instruction in these mino... ...Wronski, the enlightened mathematician, the poet Mickievicz, Towianksi the mystic, and Chopin, whose talent is supernatural. Great national con- vulsi...

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..., the author was greatly delighted with the poems of Mickle and Langhorne, poets who, though by no means deficient in the higher branches of their art... ...ctual conjurer, but certain it is that he professed to be a brother of the mystical Order of the Rosy Cross, a disciple of Geber (ex nomine cujus veni... ... of the charcoal fire and the dying lamp, accorded very well with all this mystical apparatus, and in that age of superstition would have made some im... ...residence in the town of Farringdon were occasioned by his progress in the mystic sciences, and his intercourse with the invisible world. Me also he t... ...” said his comrade, laughing, “the devil woo’ d Eve in rhyme, and that the mystic meaning of the T ree of Knowledge refers solely to the art of clashi... ... with silver. T wo Nymphs attended on her, dressed in the same antique and mystical guise. The pageant was so well managed that this Lady of the Float... ...guessed that from his careless garb,” said Eliza- beth. “I have known some poets so thoughtless as to throw their cloaks into gutters.” “It must have ...

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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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...yed view of things, to see as Homer saw, as Beowulf saw, as the Nibelungen poets saw. The life is here, the same as then; the Poem is here; my West is... ...and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the “Minor Poets,” were con- tinually in her hands. When Presley had appeared on Los M... ...e her back to me,” he repeated with fierce insistence. It was the pitch of mysticism, the imagination harassed and goaded beyond the normal round, sud... ...st. “And this from you!, Presley; to attribute such base motives—” “If the poets become materialised, Mr. Presley,” declared Hartrath, “what can we sa... ...cked with a deathless grief, he craved an Answer of the night. Once again, mystic that he was, he sent his mind out from him across the enchanted sea ... ...- cate perception of eye and ear. It was all ephemeral, filmy, dreamy, the mystic forming of the Vision—the invisible developing a concrete nucleus, t... ...nd lying deep in the grasses beneath the pear trees, Vanamee, dizzied with mysticism, reaching up and out toward the supernatural, felt, as it were, h... ...er now. It was no longer an ephemeral illu- sion of the night, evanescent, mystic, but a simple coun- try girl coming to meet her lover. The vision of...

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...din will ever dis- lodge. It is because a man cannot see and measure these mystical forces which palsy him, that he cannot deal with them effectually ... ...st kingdom, enjoy a natural precedency; scrofula and leprosy may have some mystic privilege in a coffin; and the pariahs of the upper earth may form t... ...morously applying to the difficulty besetting him. In these instances, the mystical word, that carried a secret meaning and message to one sole ear in... ...ord, or sentence, or counsel, was the mother meaning but the secondary, or mystical meaning, created by the peculiar cir- 116 Thomas de Quincey cumst... ...fler, but lived habitually a life of power, though in a world of religious mysticism and of apocalyptic visions. To him, being such a man by nature an... ...ed, I knew, and I know that, had I chosen to enlist amongst the soi disant poets of the day ,—amongst those, I mean, who, by mere force of talent and ... ...I also could have taken and sustained a place taliter qualiter amongst the poets of the time. Why not then? Simply because I knew that me, as them, wo... ...and legitimate diction of genuine emotion. Rarely, indeed, are the reputed poets of any age men who groan, like prophets, under the burden of a messag...

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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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...enjoyed the chance of showing them that he could respond to the remot- est mystic indications, with a muffled adroitness equal to their own, and so en... ...we are rich enough; but in prose also we owe everything to the licence our poets have taken in the teeth of critics. Shall I give you examples? It is ... ...implest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have made it. Read French poetry. With the first couplet the sails ar... ... with us; and we never did a wiser thing than when we decided to patronize poets. If kept in order—un- der—they are the aristocracy of light conversat... ...d now he yawns!’ you’re saying. You’re wrong. We Army men feel just as you poets do, and for a longer time, I think, though perhaps not so acutely. I ... ...brood on the hardness of our lot, lays the foundation for a perni- ciously mystical self-love. He had waged precociously philo- sophic, when still a j... ...s if you had taken a hurt, my dear boy. This sort of scene is dangerous to poets. But, I thought you slighted music.” “I don’t know whether I’m breath...

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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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... bedroom window above their heads Bathsheba’s head and shoulders, robed in mystic white, were dimly seen extended into the air. ‘Are any of my men amo... ... case is not unexampled in high places. When, in the writings of the later poets, Jove and his family are found to have moved from their cramped quart... ...nting horses, had latterly shown signs of weariness, again scrutinized the mystic characters. This time only three were of the regular horseshoe shape...

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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...