Characters and Criticisms, Volumen2I.Y. Westervelt, 1857 |
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... critic , of course ; the corollary follows the proposition as closely as demonstration upon mathematical reasoning . To be a tolerable author requires some brains and tact in writ- ing ; but to become a regular critic , nothing is ...
... critic , of course ; the corollary follows the proposition as closely as demonstration upon mathematical reasoning . To be a tolerable author requires some brains and tact in writ- ing ; but to become a regular critic , nothing is ...
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... critic in a Charleston paper , simultaneously uttering the heresy of the London Spectator . As for this last writer's general remarks upon the essay , the facts of literary history are against him , from Bacon to Leigh Hunt . English ...
... critic in a Charleston paper , simultaneously uttering the heresy of the London Spectator . As for this last writer's general remarks upon the essay , the facts of literary history are against him , from Bacon to Leigh Hunt . English ...
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... critic by a peculiar requisitions of the distinguished few of the results of actual experience . Our literature has , in fact , been the very opposite of the conditions claimed by De Tocqueville . He demands originality , force ...
... critic by a peculiar requisitions of the distinguished few of the results of actual experience . Our literature has , in fact , been the very opposite of the conditions claimed by De Tocqueville . He demands originality , force ...
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... critics talk of our poets by hundreds , they make it a matter of fashion to set up for a poet , and the regiment of the Muses is speedily filled by a crowd of fops and pretenders without strength or valor . We see delicate and tasteful ...
... critics talk of our poets by hundreds , they make it a matter of fashion to set up for a poet , and the regiment of the Muses is speedily filled by a crowd of fops and pretenders without strength or valor . We see delicate and tasteful ...
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... critics , and logical heads , and wise moral teachers , and sharp satir- ists of vice and folly ; but it has no fair pictures , or noble forms , or aerial harmonies . It is not the true calling of the poet , though many true poets have ...
... critics , and logical heads , and wise moral teachers , and sharp satir- ists of vice and folly ; but it has no fair pictures , or noble forms , or aerial harmonies . It is not the true calling of the poet , though many true poets have ...
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Página 65 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of musick, and with with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 66 - 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 75 - 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.
Página 62 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew - forms such as never were in Nature...
Página 68 - Grecians' divinity, to believe, with Bembus, that they were the first bringers in of all civility, to believe, with Scaliger, that no philosopher's precepts can sooner make you an honest man than the reading of Virgil, to believe, with Clauserus, the translator of Cornutus, that it pleased the heavenly deity by Hesiod and Homer, under the veil of fables, to give us all knowledge, logic, rhetoric, philosophy natural and moral, and quid non, to believe, with me, that there are many mysteries contained...
Página 65 - He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he 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 78 - 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 65 - 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 205 - It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. It is well he knows that it is long enough to reach the bottom, at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him.
Página 63 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.