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Pàgina 4
... writers and readers , and from time to time fit itself to new condi- tions , yet , in its old title and name , preserve an apparent identity ; nay , though in every point else it has undergone complete altera- tion . Of the MONTHLY ...
... writers and readers , and from time to time fit itself to new condi- tions , yet , in its old title and name , preserve an apparent identity ; nay , though in every point else it has undergone complete altera- tion . Of the MONTHLY ...
Pàgina 5
... writer , we turn at once our back on Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets , and his canons of criticism : what he prized as ... writers are the moons of literature ; they shine with re- flected light - with light borrowed from the ancients ...
... writer , we turn at once our back on Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets , and his canons of criticism : what he prized as ... writers are the moons of literature ; they shine with re- flected light - with light borrowed from the ancients ...
Pàgina 11
... writers of the nineteenth century ? We con- cede all this at once and for ever . But the objection involves not the assumption that the critic's taste shall not be on a par with a writer's genius . It is enough that a book shall be ...
... writers of the nineteenth century ? We con- cede all this at once and for ever . But the objection involves not the assumption that the critic's taste shall not be on a par with a writer's genius . It is enough that a book shall be ...
Pàgina 12
... writers , actors of poems ; no less than that all poets are enthusiasts - Vates heaven- inspired ; and that there is a tendency in all such to actualise in forms of flesh and blood these visionary anticipations , oblivious of the ...
... writers , actors of poems ; no less than that all poets are enthusiasts - Vates heaven- inspired ; and that there is a tendency in all such to actualise in forms of flesh and blood these visionary anticipations , oblivious of the ...
Pàgina 26
... writer , Dr. Channing , and his yet incipient desire to enter into a friendly controversy with him about some points of theology in the pamphlet he thought it an easy matter to confute , that he had paid very little attention to what ...
... writer , Dr. Channing , and his yet incipient desire to enter into a friendly controversy with him about some points of theology in the pamphlet he thought it an easy matter to confute , that he had paid very little attention to what ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 63 - The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping, and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God.
Pàgina 621 - 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...
Pàgina 605 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Pàgina 607 - Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost In loss itself; which on his countenance cast Like doubtful hue: but he, his wonted pride Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore Semblance of worth, not substance, gently raised Their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears.
Pàgina 607 - A shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment, through the gloom, were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air, With orient colours waving...
Pàgina 598 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Pàgina 122 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last; And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die : Even as a flame unfed, .which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Pàgina 376 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Pàgina 349 - We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Pàgina 120 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions.