Literature and ArtFowlers and Wells, 1852 - 183 páginas |
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... her conversational powers , it might have been supposed that her years of devotion to for- eign languages and literature had impaired her mastery of her mother tongue . Yet this hesitancy in writing , sometimes resulting.
... her conversational powers , it might have been supposed that her years of devotion to for- eign languages and literature had impaired her mastery of her mother tongue . Yet this hesitancy in writing , sometimes resulting.
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Margaret Fuller. tongue . Yet this hesitancy in writing , sometimes resulting in obscur- ity , or even awkwardness of style , affected the manner only , and not the matter , of her essays . I doubt that any woman whose life was mainly ...
Margaret Fuller. tongue . Yet this hesitancy in writing , sometimes resulting in obscur- ity , or even awkwardness of style , affected the manner only , and not the matter , of her essays . I doubt that any woman whose life was mainly ...
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... writer's heart and genius , but more of her study and culture , than in the others . In this she appears less as the creator than the critic , the former being the loftier , the latter the more readily appreciable vocation . Few of us ...
... writer's heart and genius , but more of her study and culture , than in the others . In this she appears less as the creator than the critic , the former being the loftier , the latter the more readily appreciable vocation . Few of us ...
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... write , " it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the first period in my life when it has been permitted me to make my pen my chief means of expressing my thoughts , yet I have written enough , if what ...
... write , " it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the first period in my life when it has been permitted me to make my pen my chief means of expressing my thoughts , yet I have written enough , if what ...
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... writer would still find it neces- sary to investigate the laws of criticism as a science , to settle its conditions as an ... write on criticism , but , by classifying the critics , imply our hopes and thereby our thoughts . act . First ...
... writer would still find it neces- sary to investigate the laws of criticism as a science , to settle its conditions as an ... write on criticism , but , by classifying the critics , imply our hopes and thereby our thoughts . act . First ...
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Literature and Art: Two Parts, in One Volume (1852) Sarah Margaret Fuller Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Literature and Art: Two Parts, in One Volume (1852) Sarah Margaret Fuller Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Términos y frases comunes
admirable Ambla Artevelde artist Bach beauty Beethoven better breast brother calm character Charles Wesley charm child clavichord critic Dædalus deep delight divine drama earnest earth expression faith fancy feel felt flowers fugue genius give grace Handel happy harmony harpsichord Haydn hear heart heaven honour hope hour human intellectual interest John Sebastian less light literature lives look Lord Madame de Staël Margaret Fuller means melody mind misanthropy Mozart muse nature never noble o'er Paracelsus passages passion perfect Philip Van Artevelde picture play pleasure poems poet poetic poetry present Prince reverence rich scene seems Senesino Shakspeare Sir James Mackintosh song soul speak spirit Strafford Swedenborgianism sweet sympathy taste tender thee things thou thought tion tone true truth verse whole wish woman words Wordsworth write
Pasajes populares
Página 71 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 70 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning « Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Página 72 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
Página 37 - 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...
Página 88 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are!
Página 40 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace— all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
Página 87 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Página 20 - Angel's age. God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth ; Engine against th...
Página 75 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Página 74 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.