Studies in Letters and LifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 296 páginas |
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... failed to give unity to his work , to give interest to large portions of it , to command public at- tention for it as a whole . Indeed , his work as a whole does not command the attention even of the best . What does survive , too ...
... failed to give unity to his work , to give interest to large portions of it , to command public at- tention for it as a whole . Indeed , his work as a whole does not command the attention even of the best . What does survive , too ...
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... failure to interest even the best in the larger part of his work , and especially for the discontinuity of his reflections . These reflections are always his own ; and this fact may seem to make against the view that he eliminated self ...
... failure to interest even the best in the larger part of his work , and especially for the discontinuity of his reflections . These reflections are always his own ; and this fact may seem to make against the view that he eliminated self ...
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... success in pre- senting objects of artistic beauty — and his poetry is full of exquisite delineations of them failed to interest men ; nor could his - skill in expressing thought , although he was far more LANDOR . 19.
... success in pre- senting objects of artistic beauty — and his poetry is full of exquisite delineations of them failed to interest men ; nor could his - skill in expressing thought , although he was far more LANDOR . 19.
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... failing to link his images with his thoughts , and his thoughts one with another , so as to make them tell on the mind , and especially by eliminating the romantic ele- ment of passion , he failed to bring his work into sympathetic or ...
... failing to link his images with his thoughts , and his thoughts one with another , so as to make them tell on the mind , and especially by eliminating the romantic ele- ment of passion , he failed to bring his work into sympathetic or ...
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... failure may well serve as a warning to the artistic school in poetry ; it affords one more of the long list of illustrations of that funda- mental truth in literature , —the truth that a man's work is of service to mankind in pro ...
... failure may well serve as a warning to the artistic school in poetry ; it affords one more of the long list of illustrations of that funda- mental truth in literature , —the truth that a man's work is of service to mankind in pro ...
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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.