The Quarterly Review, Volume 187William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1898 |
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Pagina 2
... things have been brought to a focus by calling them the Bayreuth idea . ' And it must be evident to those who have studied Wagner that the Bayreuth idea is not so simple , or so superficial , as to be easily assimilated by the pilgrims ...
... things have been brought to a focus by calling them the Bayreuth idea . ' And it must be evident to those who have studied Wagner that the Bayreuth idea is not so simple , or so superficial , as to be easily assimilated by the pilgrims ...
Pagina 4
... things hold their ground , ' he wrote to Liszt , ' when we meet again and again with the same passion of ... thing Wagner dreamt of , once he had come to his true self , was to amuse them . And the prophet of a religion of art discovered ...
... things hold their ground , ' he wrote to Liszt , ' when we meet again and again with the same passion of ... thing Wagner dreamt of , once he had come to his true self , was to amuse them . And the prophet of a religion of art discovered ...
Pagina 5
... things where harmony , and not confusion , must reign . - His philosophy , much as in detail it varied , was all of ... thing of supreme loveliness . No age will wither Sophocles , no highest Shakespeare darken the mighty light of ...
... things where harmony , and not confusion , must reign . - His philosophy , much as in detail it varied , was all of ... thing of supreme loveliness . No age will wither Sophocles , no highest Shakespeare darken the mighty light of ...
Pagina 6
... thing , of a large audience subdued or excited as it answers to the magic of gesture and emotion . But he could not be a personage before the footlights ; and he soon turned his daring thoughts to musical composition . Daring enough ...
... thing , of a large audience subdued or excited as it answers to the magic of gesture and emotion . But he could not be a personage before the footlights ; and he soon turned his daring thoughts to musical composition . Daring enough ...
Pagina 8
... things ; but in the stormy nights and wild weather an apparition glanced out of the clouds ; Wagner grew acquainted with the sea ; and he now learned in what moods of imagination sailors had invented the story of The Flying Dutchman ...
... things ; but in the stormy nights and wild weather an apparition glanced out of the clouds ; Wagner grew acquainted with the sea ; and he now learned in what moods of imagination sailors had invented the story of The Flying Dutchman ...
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Pagina 582 - University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end ; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.
Pagina 277 - The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " — we shall presently have a separate organization here also.
Pagina 580 - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Pagina 229 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens...
Pagina 55 - ... in the Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Commons on the Rebellion, of passages tending to implicate Grattan in the United Irish conspiracy.
Pagina 431 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Pagina 249 - ... originality, and less even of that extreme simplicity and lowliness of tone which wavered so prettily, in the Lyrical Ballads, between silliness and pathos. We have imitations of Cowper, and even of Milton here; engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers...
Pagina 431 - ... Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies, And my soul only sees thy soul its own ? O love, my love ! if I no more should see Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee, Nor image of thine eyes in any spring, — How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope, The wind of Death's imperishable wing ? SONNET V.
Pagina 14 - MUSIC is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite; we look for moments, across the cloudy elements, into the eternal Sea of Light, when song leads and inspires us. Serious nations, all nations that can still listen to the mandate of Nature, have prized song and music as the highest; as a vehicle for worship, for prophecy, and for whatsoever in them was divine.
Pagina 53 - And kingship, tumbled from its seat, 'Stood prostrate' at the people's feet; Where (still to use your Lordship's tropes) The level of obedience slopes Upward and downward, as the stream Of hydra faction kicks the beam...