Lectures on Art, and PoemsBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 396 páginas |
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... mean figure or image ( though these may be included in relation to the physical ) ; but that condition , or state , in which such objects become cognizable to the mind , or , in other words , become objects of consciousness . Ideas are ...
... mean figure or image ( though these may be included in relation to the physical ) ; but that condition , or state , in which such objects become cognizable to the mind , or , in other words , become objects of consciousness . Ideas are ...
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... mean the ex- clusively physical , but whatever , in the strictest sense , can be called an object , as forming the opposite to a mere subject of the mind . It would appear , then , that what we call ourself must have a dual reality ...
... mean the ex- clusively physical , but whatever , in the strictest sense , can be called an object , as forming the opposite to a mere subject of the mind . It would appear , then , that what we call ourself must have a dual reality ...
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... mean discontented , but simply not in full fruition . And it is better that it should be so , since one of the happiest elements of our nature is that which continually im- pels it towards the indefinite and unattainable . So far as we ...
... mean discontented , but simply not in full fruition . And it is better that it should be so , since one of the happiest elements of our nature is that which continually im- pels it towards the indefinite and unattainable . So far as we ...
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... mean such results as proceed from the legitimate growth of our mental constitution , which we suppose to be grounded in permanent , universal principles ; and , whatever modifications , however subtile , and appar- ently visionary , may ...
... mean such results as proceed from the legitimate growth of our mental constitution , which we suppose to be grounded in permanent , universal principles ; and , whatever modifications , however subtile , and appar- ently visionary , may ...
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... means of which such marvels were wrought , is but one of the many visible symbols of that more subtile instrument through which the mind acts when it would manifest itself . would be too absurd to ask if any one believed that the music ...
... means of which such marvels were wrought , is but one of the many visible symbols of that more subtile instrument through which the mind acts when it would manifest itself . would be too absurd to ask if any one believed that the music ...
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ab extra Allston angel Artist beautiful Bird birth breath bright CALYCANTHUS character charm clouds color conscious dark degree distinct dream E'en earth effect emotion ence essen essential faculties fair fame fearful feel felt FRENCH REVOLUTION genius gentle gift give ground Harmony hear heart human Idea imagination impression individual instance intellect kind LAST JUDGMENT least light living look MAD LOVER mannerist Michael Angelo mighty mind moral mysterious nature ne'er never night o'er object ogous original outward painter passing perhaps physical picture pleasure poet poetic praise present principle pure Raffaelle relation REMBRANDT S. T. COLERIDGE seems sense shadow smile SONNET soul sound speak spirit stood sublime suppose sweet Sylph sympathy thee thing thou thought Thrush tion Titian toad toil TROUBADOUR true truth ween whole words wrought youth
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Página 115 - And mine shall Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...
Página 291 - O'er untravell'd seas to roam, Yet lives the blood of England in our veins ! And shall we not proclaim That blood of honest fame Which no tyranny can tame By its chains...
Página 170 - It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over Nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, when every feature is set the other way ; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance ; the legs shake with anger, when all above is calm.* 18.
Página 204 - Or heard from branch of flowering thorn The song of friendly cuckoo warn The tardy-moving swain ; Hast bid the purple swallow hail ; And seen him now through ether sail, Now sweeping downward o'er the vale, And skimming now the plain ; " Then, catching with a sudden glance The bright and silver-clear expanse Of some broad river's stream, Beheld the boats adown it glide, • And motion wind again the tide, Where, chain'd in ice by winter's pride, Late roll'd the heavy team...
Página 260 - Now reaching his palette, with masterly care Each tint on its surface he spread; The blue of her eyes, and the brown of her hair, And the pearl and the white of her forehead so fair, And her lips' and her cheeks
Página 173 - Fame does not depend on the will of any man, but Reputation may be given or taken away. Fame is the sympathy of kindred intellects, and sympathy is not a subject of willing, while Reputation, having its source in the popular voice, is a sentence which may either be uttered or suppressed at pleasure. Reputation, being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the envious and the ignorant; but Fame, whose very birth...
Página 258 - Black and white, red and yellow, and blue. On the skull of a Titan, that Heaven defied, Sat the fiend, like the grim giant Gog, While aloft to his mouth a huge pipe he applied, Twice as big as the Eddystone lighthouse, descried As it looms through an easterly fog.
Página 273 - How vast, how dread, o'erwhelming, is the thought Of space interminable! to the soul A circling weight that crushes into naught Her mighty faculties! a wondrous whole, Without or parts, beginning, or an end! How fearful, then, on desperate wings to send The fancy e'en amid the waste profound!
Página 262 - I am lost," said the fiend, and he shook like a leaf; When, casting his eyes to the ground, He saw the lost pupils of Ellen with grief In the jaws of a mouse, and the sly little thief Whisk away from his sight with a bound. "I am lost...
Página 255 - Like a sailor she seem'd on a desolate shore, With nor house, nor a tree, nor a sound but the roar Of breakers high dashing around. From object to object still, still would she veer, Though nothing, alas, could she find; Like the moon, without atmosphere, brilliant and clear, Yet doom'd, like the moon, with no being to cheer The bright barren waste of her mind.