The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essaysPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 452 pagina's |
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... tion of the drawing - room pastoral by contrasting it with the simple sincerity of nature . Himself inca- pable of being natural except in prose , he had an in- stinct for the genuine virtues of poetry as sure as that of Gray ...
... tion of the drawing - room pastoral by contrasting it with the simple sincerity of nature . Himself inca- pable of being natural except in prose , he had an in- stinct for the genuine virtues of poetry as sure as that of Gray ...
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... tion of our poetry , we owe him a still greater debt as the inspirer of Gray , whose " Progress of Poesy , ” in reach , variety , and loftiness of poise , overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle . In spite of the dulness of ...
... tion of our poetry , we owe him a still greater debt as the inspirer of Gray , whose " Progress of Poesy , ” in reach , variety , and loftiness of poise , overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle . In spite of the dulness of ...
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... tion to revert to simpler and purer models . Plainly enough , Thomson had been his chief model , though there are also traces of a careful study of Milton . Pope had died in 1744 , at the height of his renown , the acknowledged monarch ...
... tion to revert to simpler and purer models . Plainly enough , Thomson had been his chief model , though there are also traces of a careful study of Milton . Pope had died in 1744 , at the height of his renown , the acknowledged monarch ...
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... tion from the other side of the Channel . No ob- server of men can have failed to notice the clumsy respect which the understanding pays to elegance of manner and savoir - faire , nor what an awkward sense of inferiority it feels in the ...
... tion from the other side of the Channel . No ob- server of men can have failed to notice the clumsy respect which the understanding pays to elegance of manner and savoir - faire , nor what an awkward sense of inferiority it feels in the ...
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... one of those eternal controversies . of taste which will last as long as the imagination and understanding divide men between them . It is not a matter to be settled by any amount of argument or demonstra- tion . 26 POPE.
... one of those eternal controversies . of taste which will last as long as the imagination and understanding divide men between them . It is not a matter to be settled by any amount of argument or demonstra- tion . 26 POPE.
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Pagina 45 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Pagina 39 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Pagina 45 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Pagina 294 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Pagina 110 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Pagina 41 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no...
Pagina 382 - The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.
Pagina 85 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Pagina 369 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Pagina 44 - Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.