Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... produced in a civilized age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely ...
... produced in a civilized age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely ...
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... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
... produces on them the effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as ... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists ...
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... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests , not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests , not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
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... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their in- trinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the moral scenery and manners of a distant country . A third evokes all the dear ...
... produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their in- trinsic value . One transports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the moral scenery and manners of a distant country . A third evokes all the dear ...
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... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which ...
... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which ...
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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.