Essays on English LiteratureB.M. Pickering, 1861 - 350 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... highest mood , nor even true to their better felves ; but their mo- mentary presentment is caught and preserved for ever , and neither the tone of attitude nor the fig- nificance of dress is loft . To reconcile the afferted interefts of ...
... highest mood , nor even true to their better felves ; but their mo- mentary presentment is caught and preserved for ever , and neither the tone of attitude nor the fig- nificance of dress is loft . To reconcile the afferted interefts of ...
Pagina 16
... highest kind , and does not appeal fo much to the educated mind as the popular instinct ; not to the imagination , but to the fenfes and the memory . They are painted with Dutch fidelity and care ; but there is seldom more than meets ...
... highest kind , and does not appeal fo much to the educated mind as the popular instinct ; not to the imagination , but to the fenfes and the memory . They are painted with Dutch fidelity and care ; but there is seldom more than meets ...
Pagina 22
... highest parties in Rome and Florence diftin- guish him by their patronage ; and he appears to have been entirely at his ease in his interviews with Pontiffs , Cardinals , and Grand Dukes . Pope Clement VII . he feverely lectures for ...
... highest parties in Rome and Florence diftin- guish him by their patronage ; and he appears to have been entirely at his ease in his interviews with Pontiffs , Cardinals , and Grand Dukes . Pope Clement VII . he feverely lectures for ...
Pagina 30
... highest sources of di- verfion ; from time to time adorning domeftic inci- dent or personal trait with the fruit of philofophic judgment and profound research , and exhibiting the spectacle of self - culture advancing to some of its ...
... highest sources of di- verfion ; from time to time adorning domeftic inci- dent or personal trait with the fruit of philofophic judgment and profound research , and exhibiting the spectacle of self - culture advancing to some of its ...
Pagina 32
... highest culture . A pe- culiar charm lies in the grouping , and in indi- vidual portraitures - sketches of relatives or lite- rary friends ; in episodes of considerable beauty , and dramatic scenes both highly finished and effec- tive ...
... highest culture . A pe- culiar charm lies in the grouping , and in indi- vidual portraitures - sketches of relatives or lite- rary friends ; in episodes of considerable beauty , and dramatic scenes both highly finished and effec- tive ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer Balder beauty becauſe beſt Bofwell cafe Carlyle Carlyle's cauſe character characteriſtic claſs compariſon confifts courſe criticiſm diftinct Divine Engliſh eſpecially eſtimate exerciſe expreffion facred faid fame feems fentiment fhall firſt fome ftill ftyle fuccefs fuch fuffer furniſh fympathy genius Gilfillan greatneſs heart higheſt himſelf hiſtory human illuftrated intereft intereſt itſelf Johnſon juft juſt juſtify laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs literary loft maſter meaſure merit Milton mind moft moral moſt mufic muſt nature obfervation occafion ourſelves paffage paffion perſonal philofopher pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poet's poetic poetry poffible pofition Pollok praiſe preſent profe promiſe purpoſe reader reaſon reſpect reſult ſay ſcene ſchool ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſerious ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow Silvio Pellico ſome ſomething ſpace ſpeak ſpirit ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſtyle ſubject ſuch taſte themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion truth uſe verſe whoſe wiſdom
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Pagina 90 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...
Pagina 170 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Pagina 90 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Pagina 72 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed...
Pagina 151 - Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Pagina 90 - Stood visible, among these pines his voice I heard, here with him at this fountain talk'd...
Pagina 258 - ... in her cloud, And the lark drop down at his feet. The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee, The snake slipt under a spray, The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak, And stared, with his foot on the prey, And the nightingale thought, '/ I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.
Pagina 79 - Through optic glafs the Tufcan art.ift views At evening from the top of Fefole, Or in Valdarno, to defcry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her fpotty globe. His fpear, to equal which the talleft pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the maft Of fome great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to fupport uneafy fteps Over the burning marie...
Pagina 91 - ... fountain talk'd :' So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of...
Pagina 139 - The word this man spoke has been the lifeguidance now of one hundred and eighty millions of men these twelve hundred years. These hundred and eighty millions were made by God as well as we. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever.