Essays and Sketches of Edmund J. ArmstrongLongmans, Green, 1877 - 306 من الصفحات |
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... passed in a great measure by a patient study of those works in literature which are preeminently artistic in conception and in form . For , what are the conditions of a good essay ? First , knowledge of the subject ; secondly , propor ...
... passed in a great measure by a patient study of those works in literature which are preeminently artistic in conception and in form . For , what are the conditions of a good essay ? First , knowledge of the subject ; secondly , propor ...
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... Passing on to the Victorian Age , we are met among the first by Thomas de Quincey . To his essays I have already briefly adverted . If he is one of the cleverest , he is likewise one of the most irregular , of the English essayists ...
... Passing on to the Victorian Age , we are met among the first by Thomas de Quincey . To his essays I have already briefly adverted . If he is one of the cleverest , he is likewise one of the most irregular , of the English essayists ...
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... passed from human ken , —but , like Christian , sing- ing psalms . And shall we doubt that he has been rescued ? Shall we " fear lest the cries of his agony and sore distress " have met with no response ? 1 1 See the letter to his god ...
... passed from human ken , —but , like Christian , sing- ing psalms . And shall we doubt that he has been rescued ? Shall we " fear lest the cries of his agony and sore distress " have met with no response ? 1 1 See the letter to his god ...
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... passed into utter darkness . The dawn of the romantic renaissance had arrived , soon to brighten into warm and glorious noon . But a time of reformation is invariably a time of violence and excess . In the Tale of a Tub , the ...
... passed into utter darkness . The dawn of the romantic renaissance had arrived , soon to brighten into warm and glorious noon . But a time of reformation is invariably a time of violence and excess . In the Tale of a Tub , the ...
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... passed upon him by Lord Jeffrey ? I think not . There are few , I believe , who would see that character erased from the literature of our century . There are many who have laid aside the prejudices of first impressions long ago , who ...
... passed upon him by Lord Jeffrey ? I think not . There are few , I believe , who would see that character erased from the literature of our century . There are many who have laid aside the prejudices of first impressions long ago , who ...
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الصفحة 227 - I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity, an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn, a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued.
الصفحة 124 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
الصفحة 218 - All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few ! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep ! O God ! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp ? O God ! can I not save] One from the pitiless wave ? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream ? DREAMLAND.
الصفحة 75 - own exceeding great reward;' it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
الصفحة 223 - My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep!
الصفحة 63 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
الصفحة 70 - But the sense of musical delight, with the power of producing it, is a gift of imagination ; and this together with the power of reducing multitude into unity of effect, and modifying a series of thoughts by some one predominant thought or feeling, may be cultivated and improved, but can never be learned. It is in these that
الصفحة 53 - ... would suit him best, but continually shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, high-aspiring and surely much-suffering man. His voice, naturally soft and good, had contracted itself into a plaintive snuffle and sing-song; he spoke as if preaching, — you would have said, preaching earnestly and also hopelessly the weightiest things. I still recollect his "object
الصفحة 69 - ... rhythm than was demanded by the thoughts, or permitted by the propriety of preserving a sense of melody predominant. The delight in richness and sweetness of sound, even to a faulty excess, if it be evidently original, and not the result of an easily imitable mechanism, I regard as a highly favourable promise in the compositions of a young man. "The man that hath not music in his soul" can indeed never be a genuine poet.
الصفحة 211 - O, lady bright! can it be right — This window open to the night? The wanton airs, from the tree-top, Laughingly through the lattice drop — The bodiless airs, a wizard rout, Flit through thy chamber in and out, And wave the curtain canopy So fitfully — so fearfully — Above the closed and fringed lid...