The Quarterly Review, Volume 187William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1898 |
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Pagina 4
... spirit and the soul of an artist , compelled to earn his bread by amusing a weary audience , while his own great powers lay unused , or vexed him by their demand for realization . The hour struck when he leaped down , indignant , almost ...
... spirit and the soul of an artist , compelled to earn his bread by amusing a weary audience , while his own great powers lay unused , or vexed him by their demand for realization . The hour struck when he leaped down , indignant , almost ...
Pagina 11
... spirit ; we allow so rapid a thinker to forget or to distort unawares some petty incident . As soon as he offers us the gruel thick and slab ' of Teutonic mysticism served up on scholastic platters , we turn away by instinct , unless we ...
... spirit ; we allow so rapid a thinker to forget or to distort unawares some petty incident . As soon as he offers us the gruel thick and slab ' of Teutonic mysticism served up on scholastic platters , we turn away by instinct , unless we ...
Pagina 15
... spirit and training hitherto unknown . The average man , who had arrived at this just conclusion , would perhaps sigh over human depravity , but , if he could compose operas , would at once set about them , and charge a higher price ...
... spirit and training hitherto unknown . The average man , who had arrived at this just conclusion , would perhaps sigh over human depravity , but , if he could compose operas , would at once set about them , and charge a higher price ...
Pagina 16
... spirit ; or ' Anschauung , ' contem- plation ; or even with Schopenhauer crudely and yet sugges- tively , the will , ' as implying a primitive , fiery , ecstatic power like one of those old gods whom Zeus dethroned but whose blind ...
... spirit ; or ' Anschauung , ' contem- plation ; or even with Schopenhauer crudely and yet sugges- tively , the will , ' as implying a primitive , fiery , ecstatic power like one of those old gods whom Zeus dethroned but whose blind ...
Pagina 21
... spirit , bold and new in its selective formation out of the story without an end which welters along , turbid as a stream bearing foam and drift and muddy waters , in the poem of the Nibelungs . Wagner saw , with the eye of a true ...
... spirit , bold and new in its selective formation out of the story without an end which welters along , turbid as a stream bearing foam and drift and muddy waters , in the poem of the Nibelungs . Wagner saw , with the eye of a true ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 141 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Pagina 226 - ... tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured o.ne, the wise man and the one of pleasure cease to understand as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who for once has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master — her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.
Pagina 274 - The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " — we shall presently have a separate organization here also.
Pagina 84 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 217 - LOVE thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought.
Pagina 577 - ... 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 226 - 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 231 - I am able, with yet happier and calmer heart than ever heretofore, to enforce its simplest assurance of Faith, that the knowledge of what is beautiful leads on, and is the first step, to the knowledge of the things which are lovely and of good report ; and that the laws, the life, and the joy of beauty in the material world of God, are as eternal and sacred parts of His creation as, in the world of spirits, virtue ; and in the world of angels, praise.
Pagina 107 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaister and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Pagina 246 - ... 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...