Lectures on Art, and PoemsBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 396 páginas |
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... dark potential into the light of reality . If this be so , the inference is plain , that the relation be- tween the actual and the ideal is one of necessity , and there- fore , also , is the predetermined correspondence between the ...
... dark potential into the light of reality . If this be so , the inference is plain , that the relation be- tween the actual and the ideal is one of necessity , and there- fore , also , is the predetermined correspondence between the ...
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... dark antiquity of ages , that even for her own exceeding loveliness has Truth been canonized . If there was any thing of self in the Eureka of Pythagoras , there was not in the acclamations of his country who rejoiced with him . But we ...
... dark antiquity of ages , that even for her own exceeding loveliness has Truth been canonized . If there was any thing of self in the Eureka of Pythagoras , there was not in the acclamations of his country who rejoiced with him . But we ...
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... dark draperies of wood and mist , we apply the terms grand and magnificent : and so onward to an endless succession of objects , imputing , as it were , our own nature , and lending our sympathies , till the headlong rush of some mighty ...
... dark draperies of wood and mist , we apply the terms grand and magnificent : and so onward to an endless succession of objects , imputing , as it were , our own nature , and lending our sympathies , till the headlong rush of some mighty ...
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... darkness , trackless , endless . Perhaps , as being nearest in station to the unsearch- able Author of all things , the highest example of this would be found in the Angelic Nature . If it be ob- jected , that the poets have not always ...
... darkness , trackless , endless . Perhaps , as being nearest in station to the unsearch- able Author of all things , the highest example of this would be found in the Angelic Nature . If it be ob- jected , that the poets have not always ...
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... darkness , — in the awful , spiritual brightness of the messenger of God . Even as the soldiers in Scripture , at the sepulchre of the Saviour , we should fall before him , we should " become , " like them , " as dead men . " - - But ...
... darkness , — in the awful , spiritual brightness of the messenger of God . Even as the soldiers in Scripture , at the sepulchre of the Saviour , we should fall before him , we should " become , " like them , " as dead men . " - - But ...
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actual admit answer appear Artist beautiful become Bird birth breath bright cause character charm color common condition dark distinct doubt dream E'en earth effect emotion equal essential existence expression fact fair fame fearful feel felt follow gentle give ground hand Harmony hear heart hold hope human Idea imagination impression individual instance intellect Italy kind known least leaves less light limited living look matter mean mind moral move mysterious nature never night o'er object once original passing perfect perhaps person physical picture pleasure possible present principle pure question reach reason relation seems seen sense soul sound speak spirit stand sublime suppose sure sweet term thee thing thou thought thousand tion true truth turn universal whole youth
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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 169 - Devil's heartiest laugh is at a detracting witticism. Hence the phrase "devilish good" has sometimes a literal meaning. 9. The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. 10. Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is...
Página 206 - When thou hast mark'd the dusky bed, With leaves and water-rust o'erspread, That seem'd an amber light to shed On all was shadow'd there ; " And thence, as by its murmur call'd. The current traced to where it brawl'd Beneath the noontide ray ; And there beheld the...
Página 205 - 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 206 - Twas I to these the magick gave, That made thy heart, a willing slave, To gentle Nature bend; And taught thee how with tree and flower, And whispering gale, and dropping shower, In converse sweet to pass the hour, As with an early friend...
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 is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps...
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...
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.
Página 256 - said the languishing maid ; "Ah, what with that frame can he do?" And she knelt to the Goddess of Secrets and prayed, When the youth passed again, and again he displayed The frame and a picture to view. " O beautiful picture ! " the fair Ellen cried, "I must see thee again or I die.