Studies in Letters and LifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 296 páginas |
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... writer . It matters not that Lan- dor was wide ranging ; it matters not what spoils of thought , what images of beauty , he brought from those far eastern uplands which it was his boast to haunt : he failed to give unity to his work ...
... writer . It matters not that Lan- dor was wide ranging ; it matters not what spoils of thought , what images of beauty , he brought from those far eastern uplands which it was his boast to haunt : he failed to give unity to his work ...
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... write Latin verses was the earliest serious employment of his genius , and his efforts were immediately crowned with success . These studies , falling in with natural in- clinations and aptitudes , pledged him to a classical manner ...
... write Latin verses was the earliest serious employment of his genius , and his efforts were immediately crowned with success . These studies , falling in with natural in- clinations and aptitudes , pledged him to a classical manner ...
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... writing in Latin . Whatever be the mode of its operation , the energy of person- ality is the very essence of effective genius . That Landor had no philosophy of life , in the same sense as Shakespeare or Eschylus , is plain to any ...
... writing in Latin . Whatever be the mode of its operation , the energy of person- ality is the very essence of effective genius . That Landor had no philosophy of life , in the same sense as Shakespeare or Eschylus , is plain to any ...
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... writer fuses beauty and wisdom ; it is the means by which personality pervades literary work with most ease , directness , and glow . In the great modern poets it is the substance of their genius . But just as neither by a phi ...
... writer fuses beauty and wisdom ; it is the means by which personality pervades literary work with most ease , directness , and glow . In the great modern poets it is the substance of their genius . But just as neither by a phi ...
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... and Carlyle , it would be mere folly to find fault because Landor did not write , we will not say after the French fashion , but after the fashion of Swift , at his highest and on his level , the unrivaled master LANDOR . 23 PAGE LANDOR.
... and Carlyle , it would be mere folly to find fault because Landor did not write , we will not say after the French fashion , but after the fashion of Swift , at his highest and on his level , the unrivaled master LANDOR . 23 PAGE LANDOR.
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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.