Characters and Criticisms, Band 1I.Y. Westervelt, 1857 |
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... truth . It is experimental philosophy , though without any settled rules of art . In brief , it is the kind of writing most particu- larly addressed to all , who , while they read , think and feel ; and not to those who read to ...
... truth . It is experimental philosophy , though without any settled rules of art . In brief , it is the kind of writing most particu- larly addressed to all , who , while they read , think and feel ; and not to those who read to ...
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... truth on our hearts , whilst he is delighting the imagin- ation or instructing the reason . This palpable error of over- doing the matter , being " too moral by half " ( always smack- ing of hypocrisy ) , has been remarked by the ablest ...
... truth on our hearts , whilst he is delighting the imagin- ation or instructing the reason . This palpable error of over- doing the matter , being " too moral by half " ( always smack- ing of hypocrisy ) , has been remarked by the ablest ...
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... truths on readers of all classes . She was also a good writer for children beyond infancy and on the confines of boyhood or girlhood . She wanted genius to open the minds and address the fancy of very young children ; and she wanted ...
... truths on readers of all classes . She was also a good writer for children beyond infancy and on the confines of boyhood or girlhood . She wanted genius to open the minds and address the fancy of very young children ; and she wanted ...
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... truth , which the mass can never comprehend , or , if they did , could not appreciate , and which must ever remain a dark problem to many well - meaning and well taught ( in other respects ) , but pragmatical persons . For a man can ...
... truth , which the mass can never comprehend , or , if they did , could not appreciate , and which must ever remain a dark problem to many well - meaning and well taught ( in other respects ) , but pragmatical persons . For a man can ...
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... truths . The greatest poets , however , Dante and Milton , have been the firmest political philosophers and patriots . The Moores and Cornwalls of the time , might easily sink and faint beneath the heat and burden of the day . In our ...
... truths . The greatest poets , however , Dante and Milton , have been the firmest political philosophers and patriots . The Moores and Cornwalls of the time , might easily sink and faint beneath the heat and burden of the day . In our ...
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Seite 65 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Seite 78 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Seite 95 - O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart, — like glowworms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory.
Seite 60 - Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound ; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Seite 52 - ... most alone in greatest company, With dearth of words, or answers quite awry, To them that would make speech of speech arise; They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering glass; But one worse fault — Ambition — I confess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, Unseen, unheard —...
Seite 66 - France, tis strange, Hath brought forth no such souls as we had then. Perpetual emptiness! unceasing change! No single volume paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road; But equally a want of books and men!
Seite 57 - SLEEP, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings, Sole comforter of minds with grief...
Seite 216 - The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Seite 54 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Seite 60 - Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...