Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and LifeTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 - 218 páginas |
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50 cents action affections ALFRED TENNYSON assimilates authors beautiful become brain Bulwer Byron Cæsar called caricature character conceives contempt crime death delin Dick Turpin Dickens dignity disease Edition energy English evil expression falsehood feeling fiction fire flash folly force French Revolution genial genius George Wither hatred heart heaven human nature humor humorists hypocrisy ideal imagination individual influence intel intellectual intelligence laugh laughter light literature living LONGFELLOW'S look ludicrous side Martin Chuzzlewit mental Mephistopheles Milton mind mirth misanthropy moral Napoleon ness never novelist novels objects Old Curiosity Shop once opinions passions Pecksniff person POEMS poet price 75 cents pride principle Rabelais religion ridicule Satanic satire satirist scorn Scott selfishness sentiment Shakspeare society soul spirit Squeers Swift Sydney Smith talent Thersites things thought tion truth vices virtue vital Voltaire volume weakness whole WILLIAM MOTHERWELL words write
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Página 218 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 89 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Página 100 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Página 151 - Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade ; ' Whose eloquence — brightening whatever it tried, Whether reason or fancy, the gay or the grave — Was as rapid, as deep, and as brilliant a tide As ever bore Freedom aloft on its wave...
Página 135 - The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams.
Página 11 - Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
Página 25 - For although a poet, soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose, a mortal thing among...
Página 41 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 16 - They were gigantic minds, and their steep aim Was, Titan-like, on daring doubts to pile Thoughts which should call down thunder, and the flame Of Heaven, again assail'd, if Heaven the while On man and man's research could deign do more than smile.
Página 102 - In the front of the opposite ranks appeared a darker and fiercer spirit, the apostate politician, the ribald priest, the perjured lover, a heart burning with hatred against the whole human race, a mind richly stored with images from the dunghill and the lazar-house.