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... metrist , and his English is like a translation from one of those poets who wrote in Latin after it was dead ; but he was a man of sincere genius , and not only English , but European literature A GOOD WORD FOR WINTER . 29.
... metrist , and his English is like a translation from one of those poets who wrote in Latin after it was dead ; but he was a man of sincere genius , and not only English , but European literature A GOOD WORD FOR WINTER . 29.
الصفحة 30
James Russell Lowell. genius , and not only English , but European literature is largely in his debt . He was the inventor of cheap - amusement for the million , to be had of All - out - doors for the asking . It was his impulse which ...
James Russell Lowell. genius , and not only English , but European literature is largely in his debt . He was the inventor of cheap - amusement for the million , to be had of All - out - doors for the asking . It was his impulse which ...
الصفحة 56
... literature , nay , religion itself ? I con- fess , it did not seem so to me there in that illimitable quiet , that serene self - possession of nature , where Collins might have brooded his " Ode to Evening , " or where those verses on ...
... literature , nay , religion itself ? I con- fess , it did not seem so to me there in that illimitable quiet , that serene self - possession of nature , where Collins might have brooded his " Ode to Evening , " or where those verses on ...
الصفحة 61
... literature , culture , or any native hope of supplying them . We were a people wholly given to money - getting , and who , having got it , knew no other use for it than to hold it fast . I ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS . 61.
... literature , culture , or any native hope of supplying them . We were a people wholly given to money - getting , and who , having got it , knew no other use for it than to hold it fast . I ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS . 61.
الصفحة 118
... literature . He had exquisite felicity of choice ; his dictionary had no vulgar word in it , no harsh one , but all culled from the luckiest moods of poets , and with a faint but delicious aroma of association ; he had a per- fect sense ...
... literature . He had exquisite felicity of choice ; his dictionary had no vulgar word in it , no harsh one , but all culled from the luckiest moods of poets , and with a faint but delicious aroma of association ; he had a per- fect sense ...
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الصفحة 417 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
الصفحة 422 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
الصفحة 422 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
الصفحة 422 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
الصفحة 419 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no...
الصفحة 36 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...
الصفحة 417 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
الصفحة 417 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
الصفحة 236 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
الصفحة 418 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.