Essays and Reviews, Volum 2Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861 |
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Pàgina 113
... epigram a literal interpretation ; and all must acknowledge , that at times it is an arrow of light , sent directly into the heart of the matter under discussion . - There is probably no writer living who can hold up a great criminal to ...
... epigram a literal interpretation ; and all must acknowledge , that at times it is an arrow of light , sent directly into the heart of the matter under discussion . - There is probably no writer living who can hold up a great criminal to ...
Pàgina 119
... epigram , as when he condenses the results of the Scotch philosophy into these few words : - " It proved that intelligence supposed principles , which , as the con- ditions of its activity , could not be the results of its oper- ation ...
... epigram , as when he condenses the results of the Scotch philosophy into these few words : - " It proved that intelligence supposed principles , which , as the con- ditions of its activity , could not be the results of its oper- ation ...
Pàgina 206
... epigram . " It is curious to observe , in the tangled web of intrigue , treachery , and murder , which meets us in the history of the conquest , how the moral laws which were violated by the conquerors avenged themselves . Murder gener ...
... epigram . " It is curious to observe , in the tangled web of intrigue , treachery , and murder , which meets us in the history of the conquest , how the moral laws which were violated by the conquerors avenged themselves . Murder gener ...
Pàgina 226
... of propositions , arguments and epigrams , from which they are glad to escape by a precipitate flight . Nothing can be more unphilosophical than Mr. Hudson's ness . manner , and it is in strange contrast 226 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
... of propositions , arguments and epigrams , from which they are glad to escape by a precipitate flight . Nothing can be more unphilosophical than Mr. Hudson's ness . manner , and it is in strange contrast 226 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
Pàgina 227
... epigrams . Some miserable heretics against the true critical faith , whose stupidity and insignificance preserve them from being roasted in the slow fires of wit , but who have been lifted into some celebrity by the enormity of their ...
... epigrams . Some miserable heretics against the true critical faith , whose stupidity and insignificance preserve them from being roasted in the slow fires of wit , but who have been lifted into some celebrity by the enormity of their ...
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Pàgina 31 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Pàgina 124 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be!
Pàgina 35 - I shall raise the despised head of poetry again, and stripping her out of those rotten and base rags wherewith the times have adulterated her form, restore her to her primitive habit, feature, and majesty, and render her worthy to be embraced and kist of all the great and master-spirits of our world.
Pàgina 65 - Or painful to his slumbers: easy, light, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses: sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain. Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide; And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Pàgina 38 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow : The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blowball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Pàgina 331 - ... off a great-coat, his only garment, at the same time swearing a great oath (for which he was rebuked by the passengers), " That he would rather ride in his shirt all his life than suffer a fellow-creature to lie in so miserable a condition.
Pàgina 20 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.
Pàgina 365 - And inland rests the green, warm dell ; The brook comes tinkling down its side ; From out the trees the Sabbath bell Rings cheerful, far and wide, Mingling its sound with bleatings of the flocks That feed about the vale among the rocks.
Pàgina 24 - Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Pàgina 56 - ... without flattery, the greatest monument of the scene that time and humanity have produced, and must live, not only the crown and sole reputation of our own, but the stain of all other nations and languages...