Essays in CriticismTicknor and Fields, 1866 - Всего страниц: 506 |
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... idea at first made a great impression on me ; not only because it is so consoling in itself , but also because it ex- plained a phenomenon which in the summer of last year had , I confess , a good deal troubled me . At that time my ...
... idea at first made a great impression on me ; not only because it is so consoling in itself , but also because it ex- plained a phenomenon which in the summer of last year had , I confess , a good deal troubled me . At that time my ...
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... idea , - a beautiful but deluding idea , and that the British nation has not yet , so entirely as the reviewer seems to imagine , found the last word of its philosophy . No ; we are all seekers still : seekers often make mistakes , and ...
... idea , - a beautiful but deluding idea , and that the British nation has not yet , so entirely as the reviewer seems to imagine , found the last word of its philosophy . No ; we are all seekers still : seekers often make mistakes , and ...
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... ideas ; the best ideas , on every matter which literature touches , current at the time ; at any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very ...
... ideas ; the best ideas , on every matter which literature touches , current at the time ; at any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very ...
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... ideas , when it finds itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas , presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations , making beautiful works with them , in short . But it must have the atmosphere , it must ...
... ideas , when it finds itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas , presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations , making beautiful works with them , in short . But it must have the atmosphere , it must ...
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... ideas in the highest degree animating and nourishing to the creative power ; society was , in the full- est measure , permeated by fresh thought , intelligent and alive ; and this state of things is the true basis for the creative ...
... ideas in the highest degree animating and nourishing to the creative power ; society was , in the full- est measure , permeated by fresh thought , intelligent and alive ; and this state of things is the true basis for the creative ...
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Стр. 299 - The life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame, what we to nature owe " — is excellent, and is just suited to Pope's heroic couplet; but neither the antithesis itself, nor the couplet which conveys it, is suited to the feeling or to the movement of the Homeric
Стр. 75 - voice .... heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides "; it is Keats, with his " moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round Earth's human shores "; it is Chateaubriand, with his " cime indeterminee des forets "; it is Senancour, with his mountain birch-tree: "Cette ecorce blanche, lisse et crevassee ; cette tige agreste; ces
Стр. 414 - in company. For instance, let us take the opening of the narrative in Wordsworth's Michael: " Upon the forest-side in Grasmere Vale There dwelt a shepherd, Michael was his name; An old man, stout of heart, and strong of limb. His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength;
Стр. 5 - epochs^ in literature are so rare; this is why there is so much that is unsatisfactory in the productions of many men of real genius; because for the creation of a master-work of literature two powers must concur, (the power of the man and the power of the
Стр. 14 - to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope, will forward it; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself,
Стр. 379 - words, every one may be excellent in some other place. Take eld, for instance: when Shakespeare, reproaching man with the dependence in which his youth is passed, says: " all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld," . . . it seems to me that eld comes in excellently there, in a passage of curious meditation ; but when Mr. Newman renders
Стр. 22 - in the more delicate spiritual perceptions, is shown by the natural growth amongst us of such hideous names, — Higginbottom, Stiggins, Bugg ! In Ionia and Attica they were luckier in this respect than " the best race in the world"; by the Ilissus there was no Wragg, poor thing! And "our unrivalled happiness,
Стр. 17 - have said, simply to know the .best that is known and | - • ' thought in the world, and, by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability; but its business is to do no more, and to leave alone all questions of practical consequences and
Стр. xviii - Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial."—BURKE.
Стр. 352 - s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed" ; — or in this: