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Show In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to him recent and transitory And the freshness of youth and love dazzles him with its resemblance to morning Take those lips awa ‘Which so sweetly were forsworn And those eyes,-the break of day Lights that do mislead the morn The wild beauty of this hyperbole, I ma say, in passing, it would not be easy t match in literature This transfiguration which all materia objects undergo through the passion of th poet,-this power which he exerts, at an moment, to magnify the small, to micrif the great,-might be illustrated by a thousand examples from his Plays. I have before m the Tempest an wil cite onl these few lines Arie. The strong based promontor "Have I made shake, and by the spur plucked u ‘The pine and cedar Prospero calls for music to sooth the frantic Alonzo, and his companions A solemn air, and the best comforte To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brain Now useless, boiled within thy skull Again The charm dissolves apac 6 Digital Ima 2005 Marriott Library U of Utah. Al rights reserv |