... retire would be the less of two evils. This letter, in which the gentleman's mother had a share, contained some devotional poetry, which is really better than the love-passages of the correspondence, and suggests that if Mr. Clarke would mind his feet ...

... usual fate of vaulting ambition. When they are dead, they appear to the author in dreams, and they, or some one else, write poetry of the jog-trot order. Perhaps the reviewer kept back the satire and humour out of a wish to drive his readers to find it ...

... begun to rise under the House of Lancaster. London, the seat of the greatest power, is also the seat of some of the oldest poetry and political life of the country. But Manchester, though as ancient as you please considered as a name on the map, is quite ...

... used to prevail an idea that the hunting man was of necessity loud and rough, given to strong drinks, ill-adapted for the poetries of life, and perhaps a little prone to make money out of his softer friend. It may now be said that this idea is going out ...

... dramatist, because by him all the chords are struck: the highest reaches of Art, the most exquisite subtleties and refinements of poetry, are mingled in his works with sensational effects and coarse buffooneries. At the present day we seem to have forgotten that ...

... his own bank-notes in unlimited competition with the purse-proud old lady of Threadneedle- street. There is a great deal of poetry in Mr. GLADSTONE'S composition, but he does not always appreciate other men's fancies. He was rather hard on Mr. WHITE for ...

... language does riot admit of blank verse, and must employ rhyme, if it have~ verse at all. Unless, therefore, the critic considers poetry a mistake upon the stage, unless he wishes all idealism, and all the subtle intellectual pleasures which verse can give, to ...

... for the work before her to the utmost her talents and intelligence will allow. The brightness of mind, the keen sense of the poetry of life, the appreciation of all that is beautiful in this much-abused world, increase in her daily, for the means of acquiring ...

... -was never clearly understood- never understood at all by thousands who yet could not resist the intrinsic if inarticulate Poetry which carried that lyric to the hearth of every Eng- lishman throughout the land. And even now, though the novelist can no ...

... vas never clearly understood- never understood at all by thousands who yet could not resist the intrinsic if inarticulate Poetry which carried that lyric to the hearth of every Eng- lishman throughout the land. And even now, though the novelist can no ...

... for the work before her to the utmost her talents and intelligence will allow. The brightness of mind, the keen sense of the poetry of life, the appreciation of all that is beautiful in this much-abused world, increase in her daily, for the means of acquiring ...

... to be reached, the statement is no more true than if one should say of TENNYSON that he regards those who appreciate good poetry with no very friendly feelings. But if, on the other hand, it be meant that the artist regards with no particular respect ...