Failure Is, In A Sense, The Highway

Load Every Rift With Ore.

We Have Oftener Than Once Endeavoured To Attach Some Meaning To That Aphorism, Vulgarly Imputed To Shaftesbury, Which However We Can Find Nowhere In His Works, That "ridicule Is The Test Of Truth."

How Beautiful, If Sorrow Had Not Made Sorrow More Beautiful Than Beauty's Self.

They Swayed About Upon A Rocking Horse, And Thought It Pegasus.

Poetry Should Surprise By A Fine Excess And Not By Singularity, It Should Strike The Reader As A Wording Of His Own Highest Thoughts, And Appear Almost A Remembrance.