Characters and Criticisms, Svazek 1I.Y. Westervelt, 1857 |
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... century , or even a still briefer space of time , almost obsolete . After the enthusi- asm of party feeling , or the excitement of novelty has gra- dually cooled down into a sober appreciation of real merit , from a previous extravagant ...
... century , or even a still briefer space of time , almost obsolete . After the enthusi- asm of party feeling , or the excitement of novelty has gra- dually cooled down into a sober appreciation of real merit , from a previous extravagant ...
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... century , this age of authors and books , will in all probability experience a very great diminu- tion in the extent and character of their fame with the coming age . Countless volumes of fiction will soon be laid on the shelf for ever ...
... century , this age of authors and books , will in all probability experience a very great diminu- tion in the extent and character of their fame with the coming age . Countless volumes of fiction will soon be laid on the shelf for ever ...
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... centuries , by Mr. Hallam , is open to the same objections , and , if we are not greatly mistaken , to a wider and more prejudicial extent . The capacity and requisite attainments on the part of a historian of European letters , would ...
... centuries , by Mr. Hallam , is open to the same objections , and , if we are not greatly mistaken , to a wider and more prejudicial extent . The capacity and requisite attainments on the part of a historian of European letters , would ...
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... centuries , and where those recondite niceties and delicate traits that test the fine critic , pass either without observation or are ignorantly and almost insolently treated . A feeling of the beauties of an obscure author of merit is ...
... centuries , and where those recondite niceties and delicate traits that test the fine critic , pass either without observation or are ignorantly and almost insolently treated . A feeling of the beauties of an obscure author of merit is ...
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... century of his Resolves at the age of eighteen , and lived the life of a de- pendant , is a harsh and quaint writer , full of sententious com- monplaces . This young man offers a striking example of an early maturity of judgment , and ...
... century of his Resolves at the age of eighteen , and lived the life of a de- pendant , is a harsh and quaint writer , full of sententious com- monplaces . This young man offers a striking example of an early maturity of judgment , and ...
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Strana 65 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Strana 78 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Strana 95 - O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart, — like glowworms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory.
Strana 60 - Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound ; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Strana 52 - ... most alone in greatest company, With dearth of words, or answers quite awry, To them that would make speech of speech arise; They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering glass; But one worse fault — Ambition — I confess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, Unseen, unheard —...
Strana 66 - France, tis strange, Hath brought forth no such souls as we had then. Perpetual emptiness! unceasing change! No single volume paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road; But equally a want of books and men!
Strana 57 - SLEEP, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings, Sole comforter of minds with grief...
Strana 216 - The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Strana 54 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Strana 60 - Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...