Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 Seiten |
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... called ideal - if we except the character of unequal . By the means of this strange magic , Parson Adams ; but his works represent life we become anxious for the marriage of Pa- as more delightful than it seems to common mela with her ...
... called ideal - if we except the character of unequal . By the means of this strange magic , Parson Adams ; but his works represent life we become anxious for the marriage of Pa- as more delightful than it seems to common mela with her ...
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... called the tragedy of the handkerchief ? what can be more absurd than ( as Quintilian expresses it ) in parvibus ( sic ) litibus has tragedias movere ? We have heard of Fortunatus , his purse , and of the invisible cloak long ago worn ...
... called the tragedy of the handkerchief ? what can be more absurd than ( as Quintilian expresses it ) in parvibus ( sic ) litibus has tragedias movere ? We have heard of Fortunatus , his purse , and of the invisible cloak long ago worn ...
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... called The Western Lass , which part she acted , she transformed her whole being , body , shape , voice , language , look , and features , into almost another animal ; with a strong Devonshire dialect , a broad laughing voice , a poking ...
... called The Western Lass , which part she acted , she transformed her whole being , body , shape , voice , language , look , and features , into almost another animal ; with a strong Devonshire dialect , a broad laughing voice , a poking ...
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... called them into existence , like the palace of Aladdin , as complete in the minutest graces of finishing as noble in design . Long before the art of criticism was known in Greece , her rhapsodists had attained the highest excellen ...
... called them into existence , like the palace of Aladdin , as complete in the minutest graces of finishing as noble in design . Long before the art of criticism was known in Greece , her rhapsodists had attained the highest excellen ...
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... called around him hensions turned into the instruments of its tor- those whom he thought worthy to receive his ture ? All this , and more , has been done to- precepts , and pointed out to them the divine wards men of whom " this world ...
... called around him hensions turned into the instruments of its tor- those whom he thought worthy to receive his ture ? All this , and more , has been done to- precepts , and pointed out to them the divine wards men of whom " this world ...
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Seite 155 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Seite 55 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Seite 56 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; » Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Seite 55 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Seite 155 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Seite 12 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 155 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome.
Seite 56 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Seite 56 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Seite 154 - Of depth immeasurable; anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage, Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat...