English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 - 610 Seiten |
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... idea of a thing , whenever we use the word , idea , with philosophic precision . Existence , on the other hand , is distinguished from essence , by the superinduction of reality . Thus we speak of the essence , and essential properties ...
... idea of a thing , whenever we use the word , idea , with philosophic precision . Existence , on the other hand , is distinguished from essence , by the superinduction of reality . Thus we speak of the essence , and essential properties ...
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... idea by his face or gesture than the eye ( without a metaphor ) can speak , or the muscles utter intelligible sounds . But such is the instantaneous nature of the impressions which we take in at the eye and ear at a playhouse , compared ...
... idea by his face or gesture than the eye ( without a metaphor ) can speak , or the muscles utter intelligible sounds . But such is the instantaneous nature of the impressions which we take in at the eye and ear at a playhouse , compared ...
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... idea , we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood . We have let go a dream , in quest of an unattainable substance . How cruelly this operates upon the mind , to have its free conceptions ...
... idea , we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood . We have let go a dream , in quest of an unattainable substance . How cruelly this operates upon the mind , to have its free conceptions ...
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... idea ; the consequence was empire , and the reward everliving fame . These things are not the less poetry quia carent vate sacro . They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men . The Past , like an ...
... idea ; the consequence was empire , and the reward everliving fame . These things are not the less poetry quia carent vate sacro . They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men . The Past , like an ...
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... idea of St. John came into mind , of one crying in the wilderness , who had his loins girt about , and whose food was locusts and wild honey . ' The preacher then " 6 launched into his subject , like an eagle dallying with 166 HAZLITT.
... idea of St. John came into mind , of one crying in the wilderness , who had his loins girt about , and whose food was locusts and wild honey . ' The preacher then " 6 launched into his subject , like an eagle dallying with 166 HAZLITT.
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Seite 332 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 337 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Seite 122 - Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.
Seite 65 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Seite 332 - Blest madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both (to show his judgment) in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil.
Seite 130 - Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man in ^the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. A poet therefore would do ill to embody his own conceptions of right and wrong, which are usually those of his place and time, in his poetical creations, which participate in neither.
Seite 110 - ... from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that
Seite 487 - To their fathers and mothers having risen Out of some subterraneous prison Into which they were trepanned Long time ago in a mighty band Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land, But how or why, they don't understand.
Seite 47 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Seite 130 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which 30 exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.