Essays in CriticismTicknor and Fields, 1866 - Всего страниц: 506 |
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... light , bleak room , with a few statues ; Dagon in the centre , with our English Caabah , or Palla- dium of enlightenment , the hare's stomach ; around , a few leading friends of humanity or fathers of British philoso- phy ; - Goliath ...
... light , bleak room , with a few statues ; Dagon in the centre , with our English Caabah , or Palla- dium of enlightenment , the hare's stomach ; around , a few leading friends of humanity or fathers of British philoso- phy ; - Goliath ...
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... light . . . . Professor Pepper must go on , I cannot . My position is , therefore , one of great delicacy ; but it is not from any selfish motives that I prefer to stand alone , and to concentrate on myself , as a plain citizen of the ...
... light . . . . Professor Pepper must go on , I cannot . My position is , therefore , one of great delicacy ; but it is not from any selfish motives that I prefer to stand alone , and to concentrate on myself , as a plain citizen of the ...
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... light , and I talk an artless , unstudied , every - day , familar lan- guage . But , after all , this is the language of the mass of the world . - The mass of Frenchmen who felt the force of that prescription of the reason which my ...
... light , and I talk an artless , unstudied , every - day , familar lan- guage . But , after all , this is the language of the mass of the world . - The mass of Frenchmen who felt the force of that prescription of the reason which my ...
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... lights and resources for making it better , of which now he does not dream . - He must make haste , though , for the condition of his " practical measure " is getting awkward ; even the British Philistine begins to have qualms as he ...
... lights and resources for making it better , of which now he does not dream . - He must make haste , though , for the condition of his " practical measure " is getting awkward ; even the British Philistine begins to have qualms as he ...
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... light that touches the subject ! how it sets us thinking ! what a genuine contribution to moral science it is ! In short , where there is no centre like an academy , if you have genius and powerful ideas , you are apt not to have the ...
... light that touches the subject ! how it sets us thinking ! what a genuine contribution to moral science it is ! In short , where there is no centre like an academy , if you have genius and powerful ideas , you are apt not to have the ...
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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: