The Modern British Essayists: Talfourd, T.N. Critical and miscellaneous writings. Stephen, James. Critical and miscellaneous essaysA. Hart, 1852 |
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... object to them as giving " false pictures of life - of purity too glossy and ethe- real - of friendship too deep and ... objects stately and eternal . Man can never imagine that which has no foundation in his nature . The virtues he ...
... object to them as giving " false pictures of life - of purity too glossy and ethe- real - of friendship too deep and ... objects stately and eternal . Man can never imagine that which has no foundation in his nature . The virtues he ...
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... objects to rest on ! The early times of England - unlike those of Spain - were not rich in chivalrous romances . The imagination seems to have been chilled by the manners of the Norman conquerors . The domestic contests for the disputed ...
... objects to rest on ! The early times of England - unlike those of Spain - were not rich in chivalrous romances . The imagination seems to have been chilled by the manners of the Norman conquerors . The domestic contests for the disputed ...
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... object perishes , and nurtures the soul of the mourner . Sentiment has a kind of divine alchymy , rendering grief itself ... objects dreary and revolting . All in Mackenzie is calm , gentle , harmonious . No play of mis- timed wit , no ...
... object perishes , and nurtures the soul of the mourner . Sentiment has a kind of divine alchymy , rendering grief itself ... objects dreary and revolting . All in Mackenzie is calm , gentle , harmonious . No play of mis- timed wit , no ...
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... objects - a dwarf bush , an old stone , a daisy , or a small celandine - affect us with thoughts as deep , and inspire meditations as profound , as the loveliest scene of reposing beauty , or the wildest region of the mountains ...
... objects - a dwarf bush , an old stone , a daisy , or a small celandine - affect us with thoughts as deep , and inspire meditations as profound , as the loveliest scene of reposing beauty , or the wildest region of the mountains ...
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... which they are connected . He exhibits the naked wrestle of the passions in a vast solitude , where no object of material beauty disturbs our attention from the august superfluous epithets - in the discourses of Dr. Chalmers , GODWIN . 15.
... which they are connected . He exhibits the naked wrestle of the passions in a vast solitude , where no object of material beauty disturbs our attention from the august superfluous epithets - in the discourses of Dr. Chalmers , GODWIN . 15.
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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 54 - What then I was. 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, 80 That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 56 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
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 154 - A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields, in thick array, 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...
Seite 154 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Seite 57 - Ah why,' said Ellen, sighing to herself, ' Why do not words, and kiss, and solemn pledge ; ' And nature that is kind in woman's breast, ' And reason that in man is wise and good, ' And fear of him who is a righteous judge ; ' Why do not these prevail for human life, ' To keep two hearts together, that began ' Their spring-time with one love, and that have need ' Of mutual pity and forgiveness, sweet ' To grant, or be received; while that poor bird...
Seite 54 - An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
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...
Seite 51 - Maimed, mangled by inhuman men; Or thou upon a desert thrown Inheritest the lion's den; Or hast been summoned to the deep, Thou, thou and all thy mates, to keep An incommunicable sleep.