Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... critics , and some of great name , who contrive in the same breath to extol the poems , and to decry the poet . The ... critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from ...
... critics , and some of great name , who contrive in the same breath to extol the poems , and to decry the poet . The ... critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilization which surrounded him , or from ...
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... criticism , on which we are en- tering , innumerable reapers have already put their sickles . Yet the harvest is so abundant , that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf . The most striking ...
... criticism , on which we are en- tering , innumerable reapers have already put their sickles . Yet the harvest is so abundant , that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf . The most striking ...
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... criticism wast just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labor of uniting two incongruous styles , when he is at liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve , that he ...
... criticism wast just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labor of uniting two incongruous styles , when he is at liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve , that he ...
الصفحة 32
... critics has placed in the highest class of human compositions . The only poem of modern times , which can be compared with the Paradise Lost , is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but ...
... critics has placed in the highest class of human compositions . The only poem of modern times , which can be compared with the Paradise Lost , is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but ...
الصفحة 43
... critics who have not understood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point . There is none of the ingenuity of Filicaja in the thought , none of the hard and brilliant enamel of Petrarch in the style . They are simple but ma- jestic ...
... critics who have not understood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point . There is none of the ingenuity of Filicaja in the thought , none of the hard and brilliant enamel of Petrarch in the style . They are simple but ma- jestic ...
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الصفحة 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
الصفحة 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
الصفحة 73 - It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
الصفحة 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
الصفحة 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
الصفحة 21 - ... human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
الصفحة 21 - fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made...
الصفحة 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
الصفحة 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
الصفحة 26 - Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody.