Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volumen1Longmans, Green, 1877 - 850 páginas |
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... effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of bc- lief . The Greek Rhapsodists , accord- ing to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly ...
... effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of bc- lief . The Greek Rhapsodists , accord- ing to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly ...
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... effect wholly independent self , and sets the images in so clear a of their intrinsic value . One transports light , that it is impossible to be blind us back to a remote period of history . to them . The works of Milton cannot Another ...
... effect wholly independent self , and sets the images in so clear a of their intrinsic value . One transports light , that it is impossible to be blind us back to a remote period of history . to them . The works of Milton cannot Another ...
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... effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was , that the tragedies of Byron were his least suc- cessful performances . They resemble those ...
... effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was , that the tragedies of Byron were his least suc- cessful performances . They resemble those ...
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... effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion of all mystery This is a fault on the right side , a fault inseparable from the plan of Dante's poem , which , as we have already ...
... effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion of all mystery This is a fault on the right side , a fault inseparable from the plan of Dante's poem , which , as we have already ...
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... effect , indifferent to truth , eager to build a system , but careless of collecting those materials out of which alone a sound and durable system can be built , the lively President constructed theories as rapidly and as slightly as ...
... effect , indifferent to truth , eager to build a system , but careless of collecting those materials out of which alone a sound and durable system can be built , the lively President constructed theories as rapidly and as slightly as ...
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Página 411 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 354 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 17 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Página 398 - ... unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscles; it has accelerated motion; it has annihilated distance; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into...
Página 579 - But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh, defend Against your judgment your departed friend. Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But guard those laurels which descend to you.
Página 410 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 26 - They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Página 21 - Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and...
Página 540 - No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin...
Página 386 - My conceit of his Person was never increased toward him by his place or honours. But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many Ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength : for Greatness he could not want.