Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 Seiten |
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... enjoy . The mock heroic of Field- The novels of Richardson are at once among the grandest and the most singular crea- tions of human genius . They combine an ac- curate acquaintance with the freest libertinism , and the sternest ...
... enjoy . The mock heroic of Field- The novels of Richardson are at once among the grandest and the most singular crea- tions of human genius . They combine an ac- curate acquaintance with the freest libertinism , and the sternest ...
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... enjoy before we believe . As the evidence of sense is stronger than that of testimony , so the light of our inward eye more truly shows to us the secrets of the heart than the most elaborate process of reason . Riches , honours , power ...
... enjoy before we believe . As the evidence of sense is stronger than that of testimony , so the light of our inward eye more truly shows to us the secrets of the heart than the most elaborate process of reason . Riches , honours , power ...
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... enjoy . ment of the fiction . How often , during the scenic exhibition of intolerable agony - uncon- secrated and unredeemed - have we been com- Mr. Rymer is an enthusiastic champion for pelled to relieve our hearts from a weight too ...
... enjoy . ment of the fiction . How often , during the scenic exhibition of intolerable agony - uncon- secrated and unredeemed - have we been com- Mr. Rymer is an enthusiastic champion for pelled to relieve our hearts from a weight too ...
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... enjoy it . They had " supped full of horrors . " Familiar with the thoughts of real slaughter , they could not endure the philo- sophic and poetic view of distress in which it is softened and made sacred . Their imagina- tions were too ...
... enjoy it . They had " supped full of horrors . " Familiar with the thoughts of real slaughter , they could not endure the philo- sophic and poetic view of distress in which it is softened and made sacred . Their imagina- tions were too ...
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... enjoy a crowd of the richest and most original humourists , with Munden - that actor of a myriad unforgotten faces - at their head . But our theme has en ticed us beyond our proper domain of the past ; and we must retire . Let us hope ...
... enjoy a crowd of the richest and most original humourists , with Munden - that actor of a myriad unforgotten faces - at their head . But our theme has en ticed us beyond our proper domain of the past ; and we must retire . Let us hope ...
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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...