Literary EssaysMacmillan, 1888 - 490 páginas |
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... imagination to reproduce past impressions . However this may be , Shakespeare has himself sketched less perhaps this cool presence of mind itself , than the effect which it produces on other men , in his picture of Octavius Cæsar ...
... imagination to reproduce past impressions . However this may be , Shakespeare has himself sketched less perhaps this cool presence of mind itself , than the effect which it produces on other men , in his picture of Octavius Cæsar ...
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... imaginative child , always fascinated by a mystery , but never , properly speaking , awed by it . It kindled his imagination ; it never subdued him . He was full of wonder , and quite without veneration . In the " altar to the Lord ...
... imaginative child , always fascinated by a mystery , but never , properly speaking , awed by it . It kindled his imagination ; it never subdued him . He was full of wonder , and quite without veneration . In the " altar to the Lord ...
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... imagination when he immortalised her name in Faust . The night of Joseph II.'s coronation , when he forgot his secret door - key , by means of which , through his mother's connivance , he used to enter long after his father had supposed ...
... imagination when he immortalised her name in Faust . The night of Joseph II.'s coronation , when he forgot his secret door - key , by means of which , through his mother's connivance , he used to enter long after his father had supposed ...
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... imagination had really worked with finest effect , and the gain to unity is a loss to poetry . It is the only great production of Goethe's in which a really noble , self - forgetful man stands out in the foreground to give us a moral ...
... imagination had really worked with finest effect , and the gain to unity is a loss to poetry . It is the only great production of Goethe's in which a really noble , self - forgetful man stands out in the foreground to give us a moral ...
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... imagination was passive , not active ; it did not , like Shakespeare's , by its own inherent energy mould itself into living shapes , and pass into new forms of existence . It always waited to be acted on , to be determined , to receive ...
... imagination was passive , not active ; it did not , like Shakespeare's , by its own inherent energy mould itself into living shapes , and pass into new forms of existence . It always waited to be acted on , to be determined , to receive ...
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Página 98 - Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Página 99 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Página 273 - For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Página 131 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 118 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death...
Página 266 - And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of « cloud, to lead them the way ; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light ; to go by day and night : He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Página 322 - He found us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...
Página 184 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 262 - Curse ye Meroz,' said the angel of the Lord, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; Because they came not to the help of the Lord, To the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Página 151 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.