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His fertile imagination, and ear tuned to the finest sense of harmony, preserved him from imitation. Another of his favourite books was the poem of "Gebir" by Walter Savage Landor.
Lively emotions very commonly do not strike us full in front, but obliquely from the side; a scene or incident in UNDRESS often affects us more than one in full costume. "Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?" says the Princess in Gebir. The rush that should have flooded my soul in the Coliseum did not come.
He may as well say Strap is meant to symbolize the Scottish nation before the Union, and Random since that Act of dubious issue; or that Partridge means the Mystical Man, and Lady Bellaston typifies the Woman upon Many Waters. Gebir, indeed, may mean the state of the hop markets last month, for anything I know to the contrary.
No painter could have devised, nor even Volktman himself, in the fulness of his northern phantasy, have sculptured forth a better image of those pale and unearthly students who, in the darker ages, applied life and learning to one unhallowed vigil, the Hermes or the Gebir of the alchymist's empty science dreamers, and the martyrs of their dreams.
The Thames, launched in 1815, was the first true steam-boat the river had seen. The old hoy, or lighter, was probably sloop rigged. Our enemies. Lamb refers here to the attacks of Blackwood's Magazine on the Cockneys, among whom he himself had been included. In the London Magazine he had written "unfledged" for "unseasoned." Gebir. This detestable Cinque Port.
Lively emotions very commonly do not strike us full in front, but obliquely from the side; a scene or incident in UNDRESS often affects us more than one in full costume. "Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?" says the Princess in Gebir. The rush that should have flooded my soul in the Coliseum did not come.
He began to write early, but the poem of Gebir, which contains in germ or miniature nearly all his characteristics of style, passed almost unnoticed by the public, though it was appreciated by good wits like Southey and De Quincey. After various private adventures he came into his property and volunteered in the service of Spain, where he failed, as usual, from impracticableness.
After a period of strained relations with his father and hot repudiations of all the plans for his future which were made for him such as entering the militia, reading law, and so forth he retired to Wales on a small allowance and wrote "Gebir" which came out in 1798, when its author was twenty-three.
Lively emotions very commonly do not strike us full in front, but obliquely from the side; a scene or incident in undress often affects more than one in full costume. "Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?" says the Princess in Gebir. The rush that should have flooded my soul in the Coliseum did not come.
It is, however, interesting to learn that he read and re-read Landor's "Gebir" stronger meat than either Southey's epics or the ghost-lyrics of Monk Lewis. Hogg found him one day busily engaged in correcting proofs of some original poems. Shelley asked his friend what he thought of them, and Hogg answered that it might be possible by a little alteration to turn them into capital burlesques.
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