The afternoon lectures on English literature [afterw. on literature and art] delivered in the theatre of the Museum of industry, Dublin |
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Էջ 54
... success or its failure - the practical verdict which the public have pronounced upon it , is not , indeed , absolutely decisive of its merit . Yet that is but a presumptuous criticism which refuses to allow weight to such a verdict when ...
... success or its failure - the practical verdict which the public have pronounced upon it , is not , indeed , absolutely decisive of its merit . Yet that is but a presumptuous criticism which refuses to allow weight to such a verdict when ...
Էջ 55
... success is not , perhaps , de- cisive , but it is certainly very strong . And what author could cite such evidence with more confidence than Walter Scott — what author could more truly say , that if public approval be the mint stamp ...
... success is not , perhaps , de- cisive , but it is certainly very strong . And what author could cite such evidence with more confidence than Walter Scott — what author could more truly say , that if public approval be the mint stamp ...
Էջ 62
... the lines and colours of nature is , as has been said by an eminent critic , impossible . If , then , of every hundred lines which exist in nature , your pic- ture will hold but one , how must the success 62 THE POETRY OF.
... the lines and colours of nature is , as has been said by an eminent critic , impossible . If , then , of every hundred lines which exist in nature , your pic- ture will hold but one , how must the success 62 THE POETRY OF.
Էջ 63
Afternoon lectures. ture will hold but one , how must the success of the picture depend upon the choice of that one ? And this difficulty presses with tenfold force upon the poet . The number of elements of which his pic- ture consists ...
Afternoon lectures. ture will hold but one , how must the success of the picture depend upon the choice of that one ? And this difficulty presses with tenfold force upon the poet . The number of elements of which his pic- ture consists ...
Էջ 66
... successful . But neither poet nor painter can always do this . As in every other instance of man's so- called creative power , the artist cannot create , in the true sense of that word . He can combine the ele- ments , which the ...
... successful . But neither poet nor painter can always do this . As in every other instance of man's so- called creative power , the artist cannot create , in the true sense of that word . He can combine the ele- ments , which the ...
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Էջ 160 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Էջ 294 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Էջ 138 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Էջ 152 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Էջ 297 - There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart...
Էջ 38 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What
Էջ 302 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Էջ 160 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power "Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it byand-by.
Էջ 166 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Էջ 159 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again — A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak : its soul is right, He means right — that, a child may understand.