Essays and Reviews ...D. Appleton, 1848 - 360 páginas |
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... poetical critic , he possesses to as great a degree as could be expected , or perhaps tolerated in an Edinburgh reviewer . He overrules or reverses , with the most philosophical cool- ness , many of the decisions made by Jeffrey and ...
... poetical critic , he possesses to as great a degree as could be expected , or perhaps tolerated in an Edinburgh reviewer . He overrules or reverses , with the most philosophical cool- ness , many of the decisions made by Jeffrey and ...
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... poetical inspiration . His page is brightened with them . They constitute the " dazzling fence " of his rhetoric . Gleaming over the discussion of a question of taste , like incessant flashes of heat - lightning , -thrown off like glit ...
... poetical inspiration . His page is brightened with them . They constitute the " dazzling fence " of his rhetoric . Gleaming over the discussion of a question of taste , like incessant flashes of heat - lightning , -thrown off like glit ...
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... poetical spirit of the country and the time . In the editor's wanderings in some of the secluded lanes of letters , he has rescued from oblivion many poems of consid- erable value . He has been compelled to search for most of severance ...
... poetical spirit of the country and the time . In the editor's wanderings in some of the secluded lanes of letters , he has rescued from oblivion many poems of consid- erable value . He has been compelled to search for most of severance ...
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... poetical faculty , have considerable poetical feeling . Their composi- tions may not deserve much eulogium ; they may merely remodel old images and repeat old forms of expression ; they may rather reproduce than create ; but their ...
... poetical faculty , have considerable poetical feeling . Their composi- tions may not deserve much eulogium ; they may merely remodel old images and repeat old forms of expression ; they may rather reproduce than create ; but their ...
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... poetical sense of the phrase . The least lucrative profession in the United States is that of authorship . Every prudent man avoids it as he does a pestilence . A writer who attempts to live on the manufactures of his imagination , is ...
... poetical sense of the phrase . The least lucrative profession in the United States is that of authorship . Every prudent man avoids it as he does a pestilence . A writer who attempts to live on the manufactures of his imagination , is ...
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Página 330 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Página 249 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 260 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Página 240 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Página 240 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Página 284 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Página 180 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 329 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Página 278 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...
Página 20 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.