Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam: With a Preface and Memoir

Front Cover
Ticknor and Fields, 1863 - 441 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 383 - Così disse il Maestro ; ed egli stessi Mi volse, e non si tenne alle mie mani, Che con le sue ancor non mi chiudessi. O voi, che avete gì' intelletti sani, Mirate la dottrina, che s' asconde Sotto il velame degli versi strani.
Page 150 - The garden trees are busy with the shower That fell ere sunset : now methinks they talk, Lowly and sweetly as befits the hour, One to another down the grassy walk. Hark the laburnum from his opening flower, This...
Page 147 - Lady, I bid thee to a sunny dome, Ringing with echoes of Italian song ; Henceforth to thee these magic halls belong, And all the pleasant place is like a home: Hark ! on the right, with full piano tone, Old Dante's voice encircles all the air: Hark yet again ! like flute tones mingling rare Comes the keen sweetness of Petrarca's moan.
Page 402 - What is the distinguishing character of Hebrew literature, which separates it by so broad a line of demarcation from that of every ancient people? Undoubtedly the sentiment of erotic devotion which pervades it. Their poets never represent the Deity as an impassive principle, a mere organizing intellect, removed at infinite distance from human hopes and fears. He is for them a being of like passions with themselves, requiring heart for heart, and capable of inspiring affection, because capable of...
Page 86 - Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown, It must, or we shall rue it, We have a vision of our own, Ah ! why should we undo it...
Page 109 - I coveted that Abbey's doom ; For if I thought the early flowers Of our affection may not bloom, Like those green hills, through countless hours, Grant me at least a tardy waning, Some pleasure still in age's paining ; Though lines and forms must fade away, Still may old Beauty share the empire of Decay ! IV.
Page 47 - Memoriam" is sacred. This place was selected by his father, not only from the connection of kindred, being the burial-place of his maternal grandfather, Sir Abraham Elton, but likewise " on account of its still and sequestered situation, on a lone hill that overhangs the Bristol Channel.
Page 91 - And Persia, and the wild Carmanian waste, And o'er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves.
Page 441 - Secondly, his power of embodying himself in ideal characters, or rather moods of character, with such extreme accuracy of adjustment, that the circumstances of the narration seem to have a natural correspondence with the predominant feeling, and, as it were, to be evolved from it by assimilative force. Thirdly, his vivid, picturesque delineation of objects, and the peculiar skill with which he holds all of them fused, to borrow a metaphor from science, in a medium of strong emotion. Fourthly, the...
Page 92 - Of her pure mind kindled through all her frame A permeating fire ; wild numbers then She raised, with voice stifled in tremulous sobs Subdued by its own "pathos ; her fair hands...

Bibliographic information