Letters and Social AimsHoughton, Mifflin, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... Better than images is seen through them . The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image . The selection must follow fate . Poetry , if per- fected , is the only verity ; is the speech of ...
... Better than images is seen through them . The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image . The selection must follow fate . Poetry , if per- fected , is the only verity ; is the speech of ...
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... better . " 66 This union of first and second sight reads nature to the end of delight and of moral use . Men are imaginative , but not overpowered by it to the extent of confound- ing its suggestions with external facts . We live in ...
... better . " 66 This union of first and second sight reads nature to the end of delight and of moral use . Men are imaginative , but not overpowered by it to the extent of confound- ing its suggestions with external facts . We live in ...
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... better lineaments , and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see , does not imagine at all . The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely ...
... better lineaments , and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see , does not imagine at all . The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely ...
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... better than any skill of execution , but how rare ! I find it in the poems of Wordsworth , - " Laodamia , " and the " Ode to Dion , " and the plan of " The Recluse . " We want design , and do not forgive the bards if they have only the ...
... better than any skill of execution , but how rare ! I find it in the poems of Wordsworth , - " Laodamia , " and the " Ode to Dion , " and the plan of " The Recluse . " We want design , and do not forgive the bards if they have only the ...
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... better given than the tragedy , as the stock actors understand the farce , and do not understand the tragedy . The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind , more wit and fancy , more play of thought , on the incidents that occur ...
... better given than the tragedy , as the stock actors understand the farce , and do not understand the tragedy . The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind , more wit and fancy , more play of thought , on the incidents that occur ...
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Página 229 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Página 42 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 74 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Página 80 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 43 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove...
Página 233 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Página 258 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 27 - A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 154 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.