Papers on Literature and ArtJohn Wiley, 1848 |
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... observation of the ties formed , by those whose choice was left free , has not taught me that a higher happiness than mine was the destined portion of men . They are too immature to form permanent relations ; all that they do seems ...
... observation of the ties formed , by those whose choice was left free , has not taught me that a higher happiness than mine was the destined portion of men . They are too immature to form permanent relations ; all that they do seems ...
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... observation of important objects . We must have methods of our own , but the hints we might borrow from this short essay of Milton's are endless . Then of music- " The interim may , both with THE PROSE WORKS OF MILTON . 39 39.
... observation of important objects . We must have methods of our own , but the hints we might borrow from this short essay of Milton's are endless . Then of music- " The interim may , both with THE PROSE WORKS OF MILTON . 39 39.
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... observations of this sort , must feel that , here as else- where , planting and watering had best be done for duty or love's sake , without any sanguine hopes as to the increase . From mis- taken notions of freedom , or an ill ...
... observations of this sort , must feel that , here as else- where , planting and watering had best be done for duty or love's sake , without any sanguine hopes as to the increase . From mis- taken notions of freedom , or an ill ...
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... observation , he added such a tendency to generalization . In metaphysics he would have explored far , and his reports would have claimed our confidence ; since his candour and love of truth would have made it impossible for him to ...
... observation , he added such a tendency to generalization . In metaphysics he would have explored far , and his reports would have claimed our confidence ; since his candour and love of truth would have made it impossible for him to ...
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... observation . No minor part is sacrificed to give effect to the whole ; no pecu- liar light cast on the picture : you only see through a wonder- fully far - seeing and accurately observing pair of eyes , and all this when he has so ...
... observation . No minor part is sacrificed to give effect to the whole ; no pecu- liar light cast on the picture : you only see through a wonder- fully far - seeing and accurately observing pair of eyes , and all this when he has so ...
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admiration Ambla Artevelde artist Bach beauty Beethoven better breast brother calm character Charles Wesley charm child clavichord critic Dædalus deep delight divine drama earth excellent expression faith fancy feel felt flowers fugue genius give grace Handel happy harmony harpsichord Haydn hear heart heaven honour hope hour human intellectual interest J. S. Bach less light literature lives look Lord Madame de Staël 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 rich seems Senesino Shakspeare Sir James Mackintosh song soul speak spirit stars Strafford SWEDENBORGIANISM sweet sympathy taste tender thee things thou thought tion tone true truth verse whole WILLIAM THOM wish words Wordsworth write
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Página 69 - 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 35 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
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 72 - A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak...
Página 85 - 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 29 - Fra Pandolf" by design: for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Página 30 - In speech (which I have not) to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this "Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, "Or there exceed the mark...
Página 86 - To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Página 73 - 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 69 - 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.