Selections from the Essays of Francis JeffreyGinn, 1894 - 213 pàgines |
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Pàgina ix
... genius than any man of our time . " 1 Macaulay's opinion , however , may not be wholly beyond suspicion . He himself had much of Jeffrey's dryness and positiveness of nature , and was tempera- mentally limited in much the same ways ; he ...
... genius than any man of our time . " 1 Macaulay's opinion , however , may not be wholly beyond suspicion . He himself had much of Jeffrey's dryness and positiveness of nature , and was tempera- mentally limited in much the same ways ; he ...
Pàgina 1
... genius . - Ford certainly is not the best of those neglected writers , nor Mr. Weber by any means the best of their recent editors . But we cannot resist the oppor- 201 tunity which this publication seems to afford , of saying a word or ...
... genius . - Ford certainly is not the best of those neglected writers , nor Mr. Weber by any means the best of their recent editors . But we cannot resist the oppor- 201 tunity which this publication seems to afford , of saying a word or ...
Pàgina 2
... genius , neither the age of Pericles , nor the age of Augustus , nor the times of Leo X. , nor of Louis XIV . , can come at all into comparison : For , in that short 10 period , we shall find the names of almost all the very great men ...
... genius , neither the age of Pericles , nor the age of Augustus , nor the times of Leo X. , nor of Louis XIV . , can come at all into comparison : For , in that short 10 period , we shall find the names of almost all the very great men ...
Pàgina 4
... genius were required to conform ; and no general authority was acknowledged , by which all private or local ideas of excellence must submit to be corrected . Both readers and authors were comparatively few in 15 number . The former were ...
... genius were required to conform ; and no general authority was acknowledged , by which all private or local ideas of excellence must submit to be corrected . Both readers and authors were comparatively few in 15 number . The former were ...
Pàgina 5
... genius , who has not made himself acquainted with the prose writers , as well as the poets , of this memorable period . The civil wars , and the fanaticism by which they were fostered , checked all this fine bloom of the imagination ...
... genius , who has not made himself acquainted with the prose writers , as well as the poets , of this memorable period . The civil wars , and the fanaticism by which they were fostered , checked all this fine bloom of the imagination ...
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Selections from the Essays of Francis Jeffrey Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey Visualització completa - 1894 |
Selections from the Essays of Francis Jeffrey Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey Visualització completa - 1894 |
Selections from the Essays of Francis Jeffrey Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey Visualització completa - 1894 |
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Pàgina 205 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Pàgina 196 - Further, it is the language of men who speak of what they do not understand ; who talk of Poetry as of a matter of amusement and idle pleasure ; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for ropedancing, or Frontiniac or Sherry.
Pàgina 60 - And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, „ Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him.
Pàgina 62 - There is a thorn; it looks so old, In truth you'd find it hard to say, How it could ever have been young, It looks so old and grey. Not higher than a two-years...
Pàgina 202 - It is impossible that any expectations can be lower than mine concerning the immediate effect of this little work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions which always stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet ; but merely think of the pure, absolute, honest...
Pàgina 61 - ... a captain of a small trading vessel, for example, who, being past the middle age of life, had retired upon an annuity, or small independent income, to some village or country town of which he was not a native, or in which he had not been accustomed to live. Such men, having nothing to do, become credulous and talkative from indolence.
Pàgina 88 - ... they are flushed all over with the rich lights of fancy, and so coloured and bestrewn with the flowers of poetry, that even while perplexed and bewildered in their labyrinths, it is impossible to resist the intoxication of their sweetness, or to shut our hearts to the enchantments they so lavishly present.
Pàgina 118 - ... it seems to us to consist of a happy union of all the faults, without any of the beauties, which belong to his school of poetry. It is just such a work, in short, as some wicked enemy of that school might be supposed to have devised, on purpose to make it ridiculous...
Pàgina 80 - Behold the child by nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.