Essays in CriticismTicknor and Fields, 1866 - Всего страниц: 506 |
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... write this preface , but to prevent a mis- understanding , of which certain phrases that some of them use make me apprehensive . Mr. Wright , one of the many translators of Homer , has just published a Let- ter to the Dean of Canterbury ...
... write this preface , but to prevent a mis- understanding , of which certain phrases that some of them use make me apprehensive . Mr. Wright , one of the many translators of Homer , has just published a Let- ter to the Dean of Canterbury ...
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... writes from Mapperly , - if he can tell me what has become of that poor girl , Wragg ? She has been tried , I suppose : I know how merciful a view judges and juries are apt to take of these cases , so I can- not but hope she has got off ...
... writes from Mapperly , - if he can tell me what has become of that poor girl , Wragg ? She has been tried , I suppose : I know how merciful a view judges and juries are apt to take of these cases , so I can- not but hope she has got off ...
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... write ; it is much more out of genuine devotion to the University of Oxford , for which I feel , and always must feel , the fondest , the most reverential attachment . In an epoch of dissolution and transformation , such as that on ...
... write ; it is much more out of genuine devotion to the University of Oxford , for which I feel , and always must feel , the fondest , the most reverential attachment . In an epoch of dissolution and transformation , such as that on ...
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... write a book which reposes upon a false conception . Even the practical consequences of a book are to genuine ... writes with great ability , but a little too much , perhaps , the higher culture to attempt to inform the ignorant ...
... write a book which reposes upon a false conception . Even the practical consequences of a book are to genuine ... writes with great ability , but a little too much , perhaps , the higher culture to attempt to inform the ignorant ...
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... write poetry , he is limited , artificial , and impo- tent ; set him to write prose , he is free , natural , and effec- tive . The power of French literature is in its prose- writers , the power of English literature is in its poets ...
... write poetry , he is limited , artificial , and impo- tent ; set him to write prose , he is free , natural , and effec- tive . The power of French literature is in its prose- writers , the power of English literature is in its poets ...
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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: