Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 Seiten |
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... universal laws of sublimity and beauty , which the critic has shown to be followed by nature herself . When Aristotle tells us that the action of an epic should be one and entire , and that it should be a great action , he tells us of ...
... universal laws of sublimity and beauty , which the critic has shown to be followed by nature herself . When Aristotle tells us that the action of an epic should be one and entire , and that it should be a great action , he tells us of ...
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... universal spirit of the times when it was written . Its foundations were the popular creed of all Christendom ; its supports , the deep reasonings and curious subtilties of countless theologians ; and the scenes it represents , such as ...
... universal spirit of the times when it was written . Its foundations were the popular creed of all Christendom ; its supports , the deep reasonings and curious subtilties of countless theologians ; and the scenes it represents , such as ...
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... universal interest . We rejoice at this inability ; it is the high privilege of our age , the greatest proof of the pro- gress of the soul , and of its approach to that state of being where its thought is action , its word power ...
... universal interest . We rejoice at this inability ; it is the high privilege of our age , the greatest proof of the pro- gress of the soul , and of its approach to that state of being where its thought is action , its word power ...
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... universal . In him we have a gift not of a world of matter but one of mind ; a spirit to whom time and place seemed not to adhere ; to whom all seasons were congenial ; the world a home ; who was related to us all in that which is most ...
... universal . In him we have a gift not of a world of matter but one of mind ; a spirit to whom time and place seemed not to adhere ; to whom all seasons were congenial ; the world a home ; who was related to us all in that which is most ...
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... Universal Parent , and hoarding up instead of distributing His general gifts ? As we resist this process , the resulting state must evidently be one with which we may interpret the mind of Shakspeare , a sense of eternal life , an ...
... Universal Parent , and hoarding up instead of distributing His general gifts ? As we resist this process , the resulting state must evidently be one with which we may interpret the mind of Shakspeare , a sense of eternal life , an ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency gaze genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive motley fool natural action never o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words
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Seite 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Seite 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Seite 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Seite 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Seite 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Seite 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Seite 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Seite 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Seite 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Seite 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...