Papers on Literature and ArtJohn Wiley, 1848 |
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... seem to have outgrown now , just as I hope I shall think ten years hence of what I write to - day . But I find an identity in the main views and ideas , a substantial har- mony among these pieces , and I think those who have been ...
... seem to have outgrown now , just as I hope I shall think ten years hence of what I write to - day . But I find an identity in the main views and ideas , a substantial har- mony among these pieces , and I think those who have been ...
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... seem to be objects of interest I shall take the hint , and consign the rest to the peaceful seclusion of the garret . I regret omitting some pieces explanatory of foreign authors , that would have more interest now than when those ...
... seem to be objects of interest I shall take the hint , and consign the rest to the peaceful seclusion of the garret . I regret omitting some pieces explanatory of foreign authors , that would have more interest now than when those ...
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... seems that their present position commands the universe . Thus the essays on the works of others , which are called criti- cisms , are often , in fact , mere records of impressions . To judge of their value you must know where the man ...
... seems that their present position commands the universe . Thus the essays on the works of others , which are called criti- cisms , are often , in fact , mere records of impressions . To judge of their value you must know where the man ...
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... seems to me , has been the greatest mistake in the conduct of these journals . A smooth monotony has been at- tained , an uniformity of tone , so that from the title of a journal you can infer the tenor of all its chapters . But nature ...
... seems to me , has been the greatest mistake in the conduct of these journals . A smooth monotony has been at- tained , an uniformity of tone , so that from the title of a journal you can infer the tenor of all its chapters . But nature ...
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... seem at such hours and in such places as if it not merely hovered over the earth , a poetic presence to animate our pulses and give us courage for what must be , but sometimes alighted . Such fulness of expression pervades these fields ...
... seem at such hours and in such places as if it not merely hovered over the earth , a poetic presence to animate our pulses and give us courage for what must be , but sometimes alighted . Such fulness of expression pervades these fields ...
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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.