Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon TalfourdCarey and Hart, 1846 - 172 pagina's |
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... render it innoxious . Joseph Andrews has far less merit as a story - but it depicts Parson Adams , whom it does the heart good to think on . He who drew this cha- racter , if he had done nothing else , would not have lived in vain . We ...
... render it innoxious . Joseph Andrews has far less merit as a story - but it depicts Parson Adams , whom it does the heart good to think on . He who drew this cha- racter , if he had done nothing else , would not have lived in vain . We ...
Pagina 9
... rendering grief itself the source of tenderest thoughts and far- reaching desires , which the sufferer cherishes with hurried fingers , calling forth in rapid succession its deepest and its liveliest tones , and making only marvellous ...
... rendering grief itself the source of tenderest thoughts and far- reaching desires , which the sufferer cherishes with hurried fingers , calling forth in rapid succession its deepest and its liveliest tones , and making only marvellous ...
Pagina 11
... render our poetry " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought . " The genius of our country was thus in danger of being perverted from its purest uses to become the minister of vain philosophy , and the anatomist of polluted natures ...
... render our poetry " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought . " The genius of our country was thus in danger of being perverted from its purest uses to become the minister of vain philosophy , and the anatomist of polluted natures ...
Pagina 12
... rendered more vivid by the intense love which he bears to his country - not only to her luxuriant and sublime scenery , but " her bare earth , and mountains bare , and grass in the green field . " He will scarcely leave a brook , a ...
... rendered more vivid by the intense love which he bears to his country - not only to her luxuriant and sublime scenery , but " her bare earth , and mountains bare , and grass in the green field . " He will scarcely leave a brook , a ...
Pagina 13
... renders all their words and ac- tions sacred - or of the fond retrospection , and the intense present enjoyment , snatched fear- fully as if to secure it from fate , which are the peculiar blessings of a short and uncertain ex- istence ...
... renders all their words and ac- tions sacred - or of the fond retrospection , and the intense present enjoyment , snatched fear- fully as if to secure it from fate , which are the peculiar blessings of a short and uncertain ex- istence ...
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Pagina 155 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire - that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Pagina 56 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Pagina 56 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Pagina 155 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Pagina 78 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Pagina 12 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Pagina 56 - I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Pagina 55 - Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Pagina 55 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering...
Pagina 154 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.