Literary Criticisms and Other PapersParry & McMillan, 1856 - 458 էջ |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 85–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 7
... once insidious and dómineering , to betray the system which it could not overthrow , it was the same divine energy that , with the indignation of truth , the power of argument , and a torrent - rush of resistless feeling , swept forth ...
... once insidious and dómineering , to betray the system which it could not overthrow , it was the same divine energy that , with the indignation of truth , the power of argument , and a torrent - rush of resistless feeling , swept forth ...
Էջ 19
... once comprehensive and . exact , which Webster has in such prodigious perfection , -Dr . Channing , as we have intimated , possessed little or nothing . When for the first time you " coped " him , to use the Duke's expression ...
... once comprehensive and . exact , which Webster has in such prodigious perfection , -Dr . Channing , as we have intimated , possessed little or nothing . When for the first time you " coped " him , to use the Duke's expression ...
Էջ 21
... once engaged , it is held by a kind of fascination to the end . His writings , however , want relation to nature and ordinary life ; they lack the invigoration of human sympathy , and the grace of familiar and domestic sentiment . They ...
... once engaged , it is held by a kind of fascination to the end . His writings , however , want relation to nature and ordinary life ; they lack the invigoration of human sympathy , and the grace of familiar and domestic sentiment . They ...
Էջ 33
... once of all the rays of Fame . " This eminent person ought ever to be followed by the respect and gratitude of his countrymen ; for he was the first who led American literature to the sympathies of the English people , and conciliated ...
... once of all the rays of Fame . " This eminent person ought ever to be followed by the respect and gratitude of his countrymen ; for he was the first who led American literature to the sympathies of the English people , and conciliated ...
Էջ 34
... once gorgeous and delicate , and so perfectly as to become almost the express image of Saracenic character and art ; in the lanes and parks of the merry England , it becomes simple , decent , homely ; in all its tone and temper and ...
... once gorgeous and delicate , and so perfectly as to become almost the express image of Saracenic character and art ; in the lanes and parks of the merry England , it becomes simple , decent , homely ; in all its tone and temper and ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
action admiration American beauty Byron calm character Christian Cicero Coleridge criticism delight dignity display distinct divine Doctor earth effect energy England eternal evil exhibit existence exquisite faculties fancy feeling Gabalis genius Giaour give gnomes grace Griswold Hartley Coleridge heart heaven honor Horace Walpole human humor imagination immortal impression instinct intel intellectual interest John Hookham Frere judgment letters light literary literature living look Lord Lord Byron Macbeth ment mental mind modern moral Mussulmen nation nature never nymph opinion Othello passion peculiar persons philosophy pleasure poet poetical poetry politics possesses principles qualities racter reader refined religion rience RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD salamanders scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakspeare society soul Southey spirit splendor style sylphs sympathy taste temper thee things thou thought tion tone true truth Undine vigor virtue wisdom writings
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 353 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Էջ 151 - Mysterious Night! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And, lo! Creation widened in man's view.
Էջ 256 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Էջ 447 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Էջ 84 - She had made an effort to put on something like mourning for her son; and nothing could be more touching than this struggle between pious affection and utter poverty: a black ribbon or so — a faded black handkerchief, and one or two more such humble attempts to express by outward signs that grief which passes show.
Էջ 84 - The poor mother had been assisted to kneel down at the head of it. Her withered hands were clasped, as if in prayer, but I could perceive by a feeble rocking of the body, and a convulsive motion of...
Էջ 78 - In one corner was a stagnant pool of water, surrounding an island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit; his drooping tail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which the water trickled from his back...
Էջ 350 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands How lightly then it flashed along : Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide, That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spite of wind or tide...
Էջ 76 - Zee spread its dusky and indistinct waste of waters, with here and there the tall mast of a sloop, riding quietly at anchor under the land. In the dead hush of midnight, he could even...
Էջ 65 - Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill...