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الصفحة v
Sir Daniel Wilson. IN LOVING TOKEN OF ENDURING FRIENDSHIP AND IN ADMIRATION OF HIS GENIUS THIS VOLUME Is Dedicated ΤΟ SIR GEORGE HARVEY , KT . , F. R. S. E. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY , BY HIS OLD FRIEND THE AUTHOR .
Sir Daniel Wilson. IN LOVING TOKEN OF ENDURING FRIENDSHIP AND IN ADMIRATION OF HIS GENIUS THIS VOLUME Is Dedicated ΤΟ SIR GEORGE HARVEY , KT . , F. R. S. E. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY , BY HIS OLD FRIEND THE AUTHOR .
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... genius is adequate , and his estimation of his writings discriminating and just : he has , I cɔn- ceive , accepted too readily the verdict of interested and preju- diced contemporaries on the personal character of the boy . This ...
... genius is adequate , and his estimation of his writings discriminating and just : he has , I cɔn- ceive , accepted too readily the verdict of interested and preju- diced contemporaries on the personal character of the boy . This ...
الصفحة xiv
... confusion ; " yet also of a life replete with genius , and not devoid of genuine traits of personal worth . UNIVERSITY COLLEGE , TORONTO , Oct. 14th , 1869 . INTRODUCTION . " Saw all the scroll of Fate unravelled xiv PREFACE .
... confusion ; " yet also of a life replete with genius , and not devoid of genuine traits of personal worth . UNIVERSITY COLLEGE , TORONTO , Oct. 14th , 1869 . INTRODUCTION . " Saw all the scroll of Fate unravelled xiv PREFACE .
الصفحة xvi
... genius acting by instinct : like those manifestations of irrational vital action , which puzzle us by their resem- blance to the highest intelligence . But the brief exist- ence here retraced has also its phases of sorrowful , and even ...
... genius acting by instinct : like those manifestations of irrational vital action , which puzzle us by their resem- blance to the highest intelligence . But the brief exist- ence here retraced has also its phases of sorrowful , and even ...
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... genius which the boy manifested , almost from infancy , was of so rare and exceptional a nature , that little importance can attach to any traces of its hereditary development . Nevertheless , a just interest pertains even to the ...
... genius which the boy manifested , almost from infancy , was of so rare and exceptional a nature , that little importance can attach to any traces of its hereditary development . Nevertheless , a just interest pertains even to the ...
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الصفحة 38 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
الصفحة 40 - THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by LORD SELBORNE. A New and Enlarged Edition. THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
الصفحة 125 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
الصفحة 32 - Shelley's definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds.
الصفحة 231 - Leuconomus * (beneath well-sounding Greek I slur a name a poet must not speak) Stood pilloried on infamy's high stage, And bore the pelting scorn of half an age ; The very butt of slander, and the blot For every dart that malice ever shot.
الصفحة 34 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, And we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.
الصفحة 4 - Reviewed in this light, he has found much in the old materials capable of being turned to new account ; and to these materials research in various directions has enabled him to make some additions.
الصفحة 32 - This volume consists of Criticism on Contemporary Art, reprinted from Fraser, The Saturday Review, The Pall Mall Gazette, and other publications. Roby.— STORY OF A HOUSEHOLD, AND OTHER POEMS. By MARY K. ROBY. Fcap. 8vo.
الصفحة 23 - any previous literature being for the most part unknown or ignored. Few know anything of the enormous literary activity that began in the thirteenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf, Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris ; was fostered by Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First ; that gave a crowd of versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the French language, and prepared the way for Corneillc and for Racine.
الصفحة 40 - Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series, especially provided editions of standard works, volumes of selected poetry, and original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more elegant than the material workmanship"—BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.