The Modern British Essayists: Talfourd, T.N. Critical and miscellaneous writings. Stephen, James. Critical and miscellaneous essaysA. Hart, 1852 - English essays |
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... cause , " of high thoughts , pure imaginations , and manners unspotted by the world . De Foe is one of the most extraordinary of English authors . His Robinson Crusoe is deservedly one of the most popular of novels . It is usually the ...
... cause , " of high thoughts , pure imaginations , and manners unspotted by the world . De Foe is one of the most extraordinary of English authors . His Robinson Crusoe is deservedly one of the most popular of novels . It is usually the ...
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... cause they are accompanied by that reconcil- of Prospero's enchanted isle , the " quaint ing power which softens without breaking the current of our sympathies . But there are some few instances of unrelieved horror - or of an- guish ...
... cause they are accompanied by that reconcil- of Prospero's enchanted isle , the " quaint ing power which softens without breaking the current of our sympathies . But there are some few instances of unrelieved horror - or of an- guish ...
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... causes . THE author of Montorio and of Bertram is | twine with the heart - strings , and which keep unquestionably a person gifted with no ordi- their hold until the golden chords of our sensi- nary powers . He has a quick sensibility ...
... causes . THE author of Montorio and of Bertram is | twine with the heart - strings , and which keep unquestionably a person gifted with no ordi- their hold until the golden chords of our sensi- nary powers . He has a quick sensibility ...
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... cause a writer has not imagination enough to exhibit in new forms the universal qualities of nature and the soul , that he takes some strange and horrible anomaly as his theme . Incompetent to the divine task of rendering beauty " a ...
... cause a writer has not imagination enough to exhibit in new forms the universal qualities of nature and the soul , that he takes some strange and horrible anomaly as his theme . Incompetent to the divine task of rendering beauty " a ...
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... cause ; and have the merits of the cause laid open to ' em , that they may decide it before they stir . What can be pleaded to keep awake their attention so wonderfully ? " Here the critic enters into a fitting abuse of Othello's ...
... cause ; and have the merits of the cause laid open to ' em , that they may decide it before they stir . What can be pleaded to keep awake their attention so wonderfully ? " Here the critic enters into a fitting abuse of Othello's ...
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Page 155 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 54 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, 80 That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 56 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 55 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 154 - A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields, in thick array, Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old, Arming to battle; and, instead of rage, Deliberate valour breathed, firm, and unmoved With dread of death, to flight or foul retreat...
Page 154 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 57 - Ah why,' said Ellen, sighing to herself, ' Why do not words, and kiss, and solemn pledge ; ' And nature that is kind in woman's breast, ' And reason that in man is wise and good, ' And fear of him who is a righteous judge ; ' Why do not these prevail for human life, ' To keep two hearts together, that began ' Their spring-time with one love, and that have need ' Of mutual pity and forgiveness, sweet ' To grant, or be received; while that poor bird...
Page 54 - An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Page 55 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 51 - Maimed, mangled by inhuman men; Or thou upon a desert thrown Inheritest the lion's den; Or hast been summoned to the deep, Thou, thou and all thy mates, to keep An incommunicable sleep.