Essays and Reviews, Volum 2Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861 |
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Pàgina 12
... original- ity and power of this as a mirror of life cannot be con- tested , however much may be said against the rudeness and inartistical shape of the majority of its products . Were a man to exhaust the literatures of all other times ...
... original- ity and power of this as a mirror of life cannot be con- tested , however much may be said against the rudeness and inartistical shape of the majority of its products . Were a man to exhaust the literatures of all other times ...
Pàgina 25
... original , peculiar , leaning on none for aid , and to be tried by his own merits alone . Had his imagination been as sensitive as that of many of his contemporaries , or his self - love less , he would probably have fallen into their ...
... original , peculiar , leaning on none for aid , and to be tried by his own merits alone . Had his imagination been as sensitive as that of many of his contemporaries , or his self - love less , he would probably have fallen into their ...
Pàgina 69
... original of the old dramatists , and his plays , though they do not reach the heights nor strike the depths of some others , are sustained throughout with more skill and level power . His style has been long celebrated for its sweetness ...
... original of the old dramatists , and his plays , though they do not reach the heights nor strike the depths of some others , are sustained throughout with more skill and level power . His style has been long celebrated for its sweetness ...
Pàgina 110
... original temperament or mental disease were not taken into consideration ; but the individual was judged from an antagonist position , according to the very letter which killeth . This is the mode of the advocate , rather than of the ...
... original temperament or mental disease were not taken into consideration ; but the individual was judged from an antagonist position , according to the very letter which killeth . This is the mode of the advocate , rather than of the ...
Pàgina 125
Edwin Percy Whipple. The various critical writings of WILLIAM HAZLITT are laden with original and striking thoughts , and indicate an intellect strong and intense , but narrowed by prejudice . and personal feeling . He was an acute but ...
Edwin Percy Whipple. The various critical writings of WILLIAM HAZLITT are laden with original and striking thoughts , and indicate an intellect strong and intense , but narrowed by prejudice . and personal feeling . He was an acute but ...
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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...