Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1907 - 379 páginas |
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... pictures of ancestors on the walls , and the rest of it ; and you long to be out of such a curiosity shop of jumbled incredibilities , and to know the dénouement . That does not come till after new epi- sodes of danger to Lady Paulina ...
... pictures of ancestors on the walls , and the rest of it ; and you long to be out of such a curiosity shop of jumbled incredibilities , and to know the dénouement . That does not come till after new epi- sodes of danger to Lady Paulina ...
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... picture . Every man who has the least sensibility or imagination derives a certain pleasure from pictures . Yet a man of the highest and finest intellect might , unless he had formed his taste by contemplating the best pictures , be ...
... picture . Every man who has the least sensibility or imagination derives a certain pleasure from pictures . Yet a man of the highest and finest intellect might , unless he had formed his taste by contemplating the best pictures , be ...
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... pictures , but for his ignorance of men . He knows that there is a delicacy of taste in painting which he does not possess , that he cannot dis- tinguish hands , as practised judges distinguish them , that he is not familiar with the ...
... pictures , but for his ignorance of men . He knows that there is a delicacy of taste in painting which he does not possess , that he cannot dis- tinguish hands , as practised judges distinguish them , that he is not familiar with the ...
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... picture . There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made . There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which , when dis- posed in certain orders and combinations , have made , and will again make , good ...
... picture . There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made . There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which , when dis- posed in certain orders and combinations , have made , and will again make , good ...
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... Picture the raging havoc of that time , When leagued Rebellion march'd to kindle man , Fright in her rear , and Murder in her van . And thou , sweet flower of Austria , slaughter'd Queen , Who dropp'd no tear upon the dreadful scene ...
... Picture the raging havoc of that time , When leagued Rebellion march'd to kindle man , Fright in her rear , and Murder in her van . And thou , sweet flower of Austria , slaughter'd Queen , Who dropp'd no tear upon the dreadful scene ...
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Página 267 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 266 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Página 300 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities : of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 289 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 145 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 59 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 146 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago), And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Página 303 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Página 290 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 285 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...