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Milton, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
vivid picture. He must grow a little older, must look before and after; the vague sense of a dawning destiny must begin just to touch him; he must gaze into a maiden's eyes, and begin to write long reveries in his journal, and fancy himself so young, yet so old, before Germany can fully reach him. To the German was given the powers of the air, but the boy dwells on earth; for him the very gods must be, like those of the Greeks and Romans, men and women. He is poetic, but it is according to Milton's definition, simple, sensuous, passionate ; the boy's poetry is classic, it is the youth only who is romantic. Give him time enough, and every castle on the Rhine will have for him a dream, and every lily of the Mummelsee an imprisoned maiden; but his earlier faith is in the more definite dramatis personae of this old text-book. Wordsworth, in one of his profoundest poems, Tintern abbey, has described the difference between the glad animal movements of a boy's most ardent love of nature,
Turquie (Turkey) (search for this): chapter 14
s run, And reddish streaks that wink and glister, could hardly exceed what this book shows, when I fish it up from a chest of literary lumber, coeval with itself. It would smell musty, doubtless, to any nose unregulated by a heart; but to me it is redolent of the alder-blossoms of boyish springs, and the aromatic walnut-odor which used in autumn to pervade the dells of Sweet auburn, that lay not so very far from our school-house. It is a very precious book, and it should be robed in choice Turkey morocco, were not the very covers too much a part of the association to be changed. For between them I gathered the seed-grain of many harvests of delight; through this low archway I first looked upon the immeasurable beauty of words. Do ye hear, or does an amiable madness seize me? I seem to hear her, and to wander through holy groves, where the pleasant waters and the breezes play. Are these phrases really so delightful, or was it the process of re-translation into Latin that so fixe
Tintern Abbey (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 14
very gods must be, like those of the Greeks and Romans, men and women. He is poetic, but it is according to Milton's definition, simple, sensuous, passionate ; the boy's poetry is classic, it is the youth only who is romantic. Give him time enough, and every castle on the Rhine will have for him a dream, and every lily of the Mummelsee an imprisoned maiden; but his earlier faith is in the more definite dramatis personae of this old text-book. Wordsworth, in one of his profoundest poems, Tintern abbey, has described the difference between the glad animal movements of a boy's most ardent love of nature, and the more meditative enjoyment of later years; and the child approaches literature as he does nature, with direct and vehement delight; the wildest romances must have in some sort definite outlines, as in the Arabian Nights. The epoch of vague dreams will come later; up to the age of thirteen he is a Roman or a Greek. I must honestly say that much of the modern outcry against
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