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Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation; Literature (Classic Reprint) William Ernest Henley Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
achievement admirable ambition Antony Arnold artist Balzac beauty Berlioz Boswell brilliant Byron capacity Champfleury character charm Claude colour comedy Congreve Constable Corot critics David Delacroix delightful drama Dumas effect emotion English epic essentials eternal Eugène Eugène Delacroix expression fact fiction France genius George George Eliot George Meredith Goethe grace Gros heart Heine Hernani hero heroic honour Hugo human humour ideal imagination immortal inspiration instinct interest Jules Dupré kind knew landscape Lavengro less literary literature lived manner master material Matthew Arnold ment Meredith modern Molière moral mystery nature never novelist novels paint painter passion Paul Huet pictorial poet prose Rembrandt romance Romanticism Rossetti Rousseau Sainte-Beuve Salon sense sentiment Shakespeare sort style suggestive Thackeray Theocritus theory things tion touch true truth Turner uttered verse Victor Hugo vigorous W. S. Gilbert words writing wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 140 - Tis dark: the iced gusts still rave and beat: "No dream, alas! alas! and woe is mine! "Porphyro will leave me here to fade and pine,— "Cruel!
Página 55 - The power of Byron's personality lies in " the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects : the excellence of sincerity and strength.
Página 141 - To yonder argent round; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before Thee; So in mine earthly house I am, To that I hope to be. Break up the heavens, O Lord! and far, Thro' all yon starlight keen, Draw me, thy bride, a glittering star, In raiment white and clean.
Página 55 - When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to recount her poetic glories in the century which has then just ended, the first names with her will be these.
Página 180 - Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived.
Página 170 - Tis necessary Wolves should eat. If, mindful of the bleating weal, Thy bosom burn with real zeal, Hence, and thy tyrant lord beseech ; To him repeat the moving speech: A Wolf eats sheep but now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.
Página 5 - It is in the laborious struggle to make this distinction, and in the determination to try for it, that the road to the correction of faults lies. [Perhaps I may remark, in support of the sincerity with which I write this, that I am an impatient and impulsive person myself, but that it has been for many years the constant effort of my life to practise at my desk what I preach to you.] I should not have written so much, or so plainly, but for your last letter to me.
Página 67 - Si tu veux, faisons un rêve, Montons sur deux palefrois : Tu m'emmènes, je t'enlève. L'oiseau chante dans les bois. Je suis ton maître et ta proie ; Partons, c'est la fin du jour; Mon cheval sera la joie, Ton cheval sera l'amour. Nous ferons toucher leurs têtes ; Les voyages sont aisés ; Nous donnerons à ces bêtes Une avoine de baisers.
Página 90 - If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devotion and circumspectness he wards and watcheth it ; with what care he keeps it ; how fervently he holds it ; how prudently he gobbets it ; with what affection he breaks it; and with what diligence he sucks it.
Página 90 - ... this box you would have found within it a heavenly and inestimable drug, a more than human understanding, an admirable virtue, matchless learning, invincible courage, inimitable sobriety, certain contentment of mind, perfect assurance, and an incredible disregard of all that for which men commonly do so much watch, run, sail, fight, travel, toil, and turmoil themselves.