Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where ...
... spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and where ...
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... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
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... spirit . I should much commend , ' says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton , in a letter to Milton , the tragical part , if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain dorique delicacy in your songs and 6 odes , whereunto , I must plainly ...
... spirit . I should much commend , ' says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton , in a letter to Milton , the tragical part , if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain dorique delicacy in your songs and 6 odes , whereunto , I must plainly ...
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... spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the portal , within which there is no hope , who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon , who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
... spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the portal , within which there is no hope , who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon , who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
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... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by emi- nent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound igno- rance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit ...
... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by emi- nent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound igno- rance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit ...
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Página 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 73 - It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Página 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 21 - ... human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
Página 21 - fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made...
Página 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
Página 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
Página 26 - Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody.