Carlyle has not the simple Homeric health of Wordsworth, nor the deliberate philosophic turn of Coleridge, nor the scholastic tast...e of Landor, but, though sick and under restraint, the constitutional vigor of one of his old Norse heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,... Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hapless Nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first and then a claw,... With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd in vain to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise? What Cat's averse to fish?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twas on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed... The azure flowers that blow; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima reclined, Gazed on the lake below.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »