Characters and Criticisms, Svazek 1I.Y. Westervelt, 1857 |
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... true secret of excellence , to discriminate the pe- culiar and characteristic traits of the author and award him the palm which shall continue fresh and green in the eyes of posterity . Of many copious authors , how little is now ...
... true secret of excellence , to discriminate the pe- culiar and characteristic traits of the author and award him the palm which shall continue fresh and green in the eyes of posterity . Of many copious authors , how little is now ...
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... true and genial criticism , speculations on life and the principles and motives of human actions ; these form the favorite reading of the best class of readers in all ages - and although the readers of Addison and Steele may , at the ...
... true and genial criticism , speculations on life and the principles and motives of human actions ; these form the favorite reading of the best class of readers in all ages - and although the readers of Addison and Steele may , at the ...
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... true position of this author in the literary re- public , has been well defined by Macaulay , as that of a liberal , fair and accurate historian . But it will be readily seen that the very qualities that best fit Hallam for this ...
... true position of this author in the literary re- public , has been well defined by Macaulay , as that of a liberal , fair and accurate historian . But it will be readily seen that the very qualities that best fit Hallam for this ...
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... true moral wisdom as genuine learning is different from the pedantry of books and colleges . The morality of ethical novels is generally a conventional mannerism : the preten- sions to piety savor of Puritanical assumption . The ...
... true moral wisdom as genuine learning is different from the pedantry of books and colleges . The morality of ethical novels is generally a conventional mannerism : the preten- sions to piety savor of Puritanical assumption . The ...
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... true field — and there she was admirable- ( for , in spite of many drawbacks , she had great talent ) , was , prose fiction in the shape of moral tracts ( good Sunday reading ) for the plainer class of people , and which would impress ...
... true field — and there she was admirable- ( for , in spite of many drawbacks , she had great talent ) , was , prose fiction in the shape of moral tracts ( good Sunday reading ) for the plainer class of people , and which would impress ...
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Strana 54 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live 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. 'Gainst death and...
Strana 65 - 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. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself...
Strana 78 - SWEETEST of sweets, I thank you : when displeasure Did through my body wound my mind, You took me thence ; and in your house of pleasure A dainty lodging me assign'd. Now I in you without a body move, Rising and falling with your wings : We both together sweetly live and love, Yet say sometimes, God help poor kings.
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 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 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 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 59 - CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Strana 135 - ... come to thee So much of either may undo thee. I wish thee learning, not for show, Enough for to instruct and know ; Not such as gentlemen require To prate at table or at fire. I wish thee all thy mother's graces, Thy father's fortunes and his places. I wish thee friends, and one at court, Not to build on, but support ; To keep thee not in doing many Oppressions, but from suffering any. I wish thee peace in all thy ways, Nor lazy nor contentious days ; And, when thy soul and body part, As innocent...
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 —...