...that ' a thing of beauty is a joy for ever,' assigning as a reason that ' it still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and happy breathing.' A perfect Poet ought to unite both the great attributes of poetry. To a limited extent...

...ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence,...

...ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and qoiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth,...

...ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Past into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower r. ***** hail overrated the merits of the poetry ; but had they been tenfold gr Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth. Spite of despondence,...

...ever ; Its loveliness increasing, it will never Pass into nothingness, but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. ******* Such the sun and moon, Trees, old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep; and such...

...ever ; Its loveliness incn>aseth ; it will never Pass into nothingness; but etill will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing." And well and eloquently do we find this text enforced and exemplified in the volume whose poetical...

...forever : Its loveliness increases : it will never Pass into nothingness : but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence,...

...ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence,...

...ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence,...

...for ever ; Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness, but always keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing." Now the only relief, we have observed, which Mr. Dickens affords, is his acute sense of the ridiculous,...