Genius: And Other EssaysMoffat, Yard, 1911 - 288 páginas |
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... traditional verity of genius as sound under the law . In the discourse upon Gray , with which Mr. Lowell favored the readers of the New Princeton , he 66 said in his unrivalled way that Addison and Steele [ II ] GENIUS II.
... traditional verity of genius as sound under the law . In the discourse upon Gray , with which Mr. Lowell favored the readers of the New Princeton , he 66 said in his unrivalled way that Addison and Steele [ II ] GENIUS II.
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... sounds , notions , and material forms , correspondences and harmonies with its own fervid thoughts and feelings . " This does not conflict with a scientific diagnosis , as we shall presently see . Remove the investigation to the domain ...
... sounds , notions , and material forms , correspondences and harmonies with its own fervid thoughts and feelings . " This does not conflict with a scientific diagnosis , as we shall presently see . Remove the investigation to the domain ...
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... sound in his maxim - Poeta nascitur , non fit . It would seem , furthermore , that there is genius , and genius . First , the puissant union of divers forces that has made rare " excepted souls " great in various directions , foremost ...
... sound in his maxim - Poeta nascitur , non fit . It would seem , furthermore , that there is genius , and genius . First , the puissant union of divers forces that has made rare " excepted souls " great in various directions , foremost ...
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... sounds , he turned pale and fell into convulsions , -like some modern real- ist chancing to overhear such words as romance , genius , poet . He was deemed a phenomenon ; his apti- tude was creative , his youthful mastery not the result ...
... sounds , he turned pale and fell into convulsions , -like some modern real- ist chancing to overhear such words as romance , genius , poet . He was deemed a phenomenon ; his apti- tude was creative , his youthful mastery not the result ...
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... sound in his belief that genius always beholds a different world from the apparent , " though only by gazing deeper into the one lying be- fore him as well , because the world is represented in his mind more objective , consequently ...
... sound in his belief that genius always beholds a different world from the apparent , " though only by gazing deeper into the one lying be- fore him as well , because the world is represented in his mind more objective , consequently ...
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Página 85 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
Página 283 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Página 5 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 284 - That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen. \ Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own beauties ; or, if love be blind, It best agrees with night.
Página 26 - Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book!
Página 73 - If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side That thou couldst mortal be: It never through my mind had past The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more!
Página 208 - Then wakes the power which in the age of iron Burst forth to curb the great, and raise the low. Mark, where she stands, around her form I draw The awful circle of our solemn Church! Set but a foot within that holy ground, And on thy head — yea, though it wore a crown — I launch the curse of Rome!
Página 33 - ... parsons, who happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves; especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons.
Página 73 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more ! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st...
Página 71 - METHINKS it is good to be here : If thou wilt, let us build — but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear ; But the shadows of eve that encompass with gloom The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.