Essays Upon Authors and BooksStanford and Swords, 1849 - 236 páginas |
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... considered a mark of our worst pretenders to authorship . Imitation is natural , or rather , we should say , was for . merly pardonable , from our social and political condition . For to the end of the last century , or even the first ...
... considered a mark of our worst pretenders to authorship . Imitation is natural , or rather , we should say , was for . merly pardonable , from our social and political condition . For to the end of the last century , or even the first ...
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... considered a man of more varied acquirements , as to the languages , literature , and philosophy of the nations of Europe - equally a statesman and man of business ; originally , too , both Unitarians , and clergymen , and New ...
... considered a man of more varied acquirements , as to the languages , literature , and philosophy of the nations of Europe - equally a statesman and man of business ; originally , too , both Unitarians , and clergymen , and New ...
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... considered , in these days of extravagance and crudity , in poetical attempts , ) there is not a particle of affectation , cant , false pretence , or straining after effect , in the whole collection . Artistically and morally , it is ...
... considered , in these days of extravagance and crudity , in poetical attempts , ) there is not a particle of affectation , cant , false pretence , or straining after effect , in the whole collection . Artistically and morally , it is ...
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... considered chiefly as a rural , descrip- tive poet , and as a domestic painter . He is at home in the fields and by the fireside . No grand , no brilliant , no pro- found bard is he , but peculiarly sweet and agreeable . He might be ...
... considered chiefly as a rural , descrip- tive poet , and as a domestic painter . He is at home in the fields and by the fireside . No grand , no brilliant , no pro- found bard is he , but peculiarly sweet and agreeable . He might be ...
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... considered a perquisite of their offices . He in- veighed , with force and acuteness , against bribers , whom he also calls giffe - gaffes , against covetousness , against wood- mongers ( an odious class of monopolists ) , against flock ...
... considered a perquisite of their offices . He in- veighed , with force and acuteness , against bribers , whom he also calls giffe - gaffes , against covetousness , against wood- mongers ( an odious class of monopolists ) , against flock ...
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Página 83 - Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...
Página 83 - ... with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
Página 97 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Página 84 - Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousness; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Página 148 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Página 83 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 83 - And, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue: even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste; which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth.
Página 81 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or quite anew, forms such as never were in nature...
Página 96 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Página 94 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.