Studies in Letters and LifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 296 páginas |
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... Shakespeare , and no more ; Swift just as much as Aristoph- anes , and no more ; but the statement that Shakespeare or Swift obliterated themselves from their works needs only to be made to be laughed at . The faith of Eschylus , the ...
... Shakespeare , and no more ; Swift just as much as Aristoph- anes , and no more ; but the statement that Shakespeare or Swift obliterated themselves from their works needs only to be made to be laughed at . The faith of Eschylus , the ...
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... Shakespeare or Eschylus , is plain to any reader . Those who look on art , including poetry , as removed from ordi- nary human life , who think that its chief service to men lies in affording delight rather than in that quickening of ...
... Shakespeare or Eschylus , is plain to any reader . Those who look on art , including poetry , as removed from ordi- nary human life , who think that its chief service to men lies in affording delight rather than in that quickening of ...
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... Shakespeare and Eschylus , no less their own than were Landor's his . In the former , personality is a power ; in the latter , it is only a voice . In Landor's eight volumes there are more fine thoughts , more wise apothegms , than in ...
... Shakespeare and Eschylus , no less their own than were Landor's his . In the former , personality is a power ; in the latter , it is only a voice . In Landor's eight volumes there are more fine thoughts , more wise apothegms , than in ...
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... Shakespeare's " daffodils That come before the swallow dares , and take The winds of March with beauty . " Or , to select an illustration , also of Landor's best , when the image , no less objective , yields of itself an infinite ...
... Shakespeare's " daffodils That come before the swallow dares , and take The winds of March with beauty . " Or , to select an illustration , also of Landor's best , when the image , no less objective , yields of itself an infinite ...
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... Shakespeare's , as in the lines on Yorick's skull : " Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft . " The difference in mood between these two only emphasizes the difference in method . Enough has been said , however , in ...
... Shakespeare's , as in the lines on Yorick's skull : " Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft . " The difference in mood between these two only emphasizes the difference in method . Enough has been said , however , in ...
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Página 58 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Página 206 - I trust is their destiny, to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier, to teach the young and the gracious of every age, to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Página 26 - I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Página 16 - Who hath not seen Thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor...
Página 49 - In this state of effeminacy the fibres of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown.
Página 49 - This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and supremely careless — I long after a stanza or two of Thomson's Castle of Indolence — my passions are all asleep, from my having slumbered till nearly eleven, and weakened the animal fibre all over me, to a delightful sensation, about three degrees on this side of faintness. If I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor, but as I am* I must call it laziness.
Página 59 - O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts ! It is 'a Vision in the form of Youth' a Shadow of reality to come...
Página 62 - Thy extreme hope, the loveliest and the last. The bloom whose petals, nipt before they blew, Died on the promise of the fruit, is waste; The broken lily lies — the storm is overpast.
Página 58 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination— What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth— whether it existed before or not...
Página 243 - Theology gave me as much delight as did Euclid. The careful study of these works, without attempting to learn any part of it by rote, was the only part of the Academical Course which, as I then felt and as I still believe, was of the least use to me in the education of my mind.