Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen4William Blackwood, 1819 |
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... Genius , " Mr D'Israeli observes , that many sources of genius have been laid open to us , but though these may sometimes call it forth , they have nev → er supplied its place . The equality of minds , in their native state , he justly ...
... Genius , " Mr D'Israeli observes , that many sources of genius have been laid open to us , but though these may sometimes call it forth , they have nev → er supplied its place . The equality of minds , in their native state , he justly ...
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... genius is rarely enamoured of common amusements or robust exercises . Beattie has express- ly told us of his Minstrel , " The exploit of strength , dexterity , or speed To him nor vanity nor joy could bring . " Alfieri could never be ...
... genius is rarely enamoured of common amusements or robust exercises . Beattie has express- ly told us of his Minstrel , " The exploit of strength , dexterity , or speed To him nor vanity nor joy could bring . " Alfieri could never be ...
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... genius will not do it for themselves , none else can do it for them ; and in the very best me- moir that ever was written of a man of genius by another mind , how little is there in which we can discover the cause of any one part of his ...
... genius will not do it for themselves , none else can do it for them ; and in the very best me- moir that ever was written of a man of genius by another mind , how little is there in which we can discover the cause of any one part of his ...
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... genius . Real genius , he says , has often been disconcerted and thrown into despair , by the ill judg- ments of his domestic circle . Taste is of such variety , that not one of ten thousand well - educated intelligent men , possess ...
... genius . Real genius , he says , has often been disconcerted and thrown into despair , by the ill judg- ments of his domestic circle . Taste is of such variety , that not one of ten thousand well - educated intelligent men , possess ...
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... genius . Genius in society , therefore , even in the very best of it , must often be in apathy , and often in suffering . No wonder that irritation often ensues , even with those who have tamed themselves down to bear the dulness or ...
... genius . Genius in society , therefore , even in the very best of it , must often be in apathy , and often in suffering . No wonder that irritation often ensues , even with those who have tamed themselves down to bear the dulness or ...
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Página 260 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
Página 260 - Sound needed none. Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Página 261 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Página 160 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 262 - He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head! The cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Página 260 - And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being...
Página 479 - Her lips and cheeks seemed very pale and wan, But on her forehead and within her eye Lay beauty which makes hearts that feed thereon Sick with excess of sweetness ; — on the throne She leaned. The king, with gathered brow and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown, With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Página 217 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower ' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 261 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold.
Página 144 - My constant reflections on the inconvenient, or rather injurious rites, introduced by the peculiar practice of Hindoo idolatry, which, more than any other pagan worship, destroys the texture of society, together with compassion for my countrymen, have compelled me to use every possible effort to awaken them from their dream of error: and by making them acquainted with their scriptures, enable them to contemplate with true devotion the unity and omnipresence of Nature's God..