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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... written less for the public eye than Margaret Fuller did ; I believe the writings of no other woman were ever so uniformly worthy of study and preservation . Surcharged with thought , their manner may sometimes repel , but their matter ...
... written less for the public eye than Margaret Fuller did ; I believe the writings of no other woman were ever so uniformly worthy of study and preservation . Surcharged with thought , their manner may sometimes repel , but their matter ...
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... written for the public . To those of my friends , who have often expressed a wish that I " could find time to write , " it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the first period in my life when it has ...
... written for the public . To those of my friends , who have often expressed a wish that I " could find time to write , " it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the first period in my life when it has ...
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... written notices of Milnes , Landor , and Julius Hare , which I regret being obliged to omit , as these writers are yet but little known . Bailey and Tennyson have now a fair chance of circulation , therefore my notices may sleep with ...
... written notices of Milnes , Landor , and Julius Hare , which I regret being obliged to omit , as these writers are yet but little known . Bailey and Tennyson have now a fair chance of circulation , therefore my notices may sleep with ...
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... written with sincere and earnest feel ings , and from a mind that cares for nothing but what is permanent and essential . It should , then , have some merit , if only in the power of suggestion . A year or two hence , I hope to have ...
... written with sincere and earnest feel ings , and from a mind that cares for nothing but what is permanent and essential . It should , then , have some merit , if only in the power of suggestion . A year or two hence , I hope to have ...
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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.