Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... voice . Talent amuses , but if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis , though under whatever gay poetic veils , it shall not waste my time . For poetry is faith . To the poet the world is virgin soil all is practicable ...
... voice . Talent amuses , but if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis , though under whatever gay poetic veils , it shall not waste my time . For poetry is faith . To the poet the world is virgin soil all is practicable ...
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... voice which we hear . As a being whom we have called into life by magic arts , as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse , so the poet creates his persons , and then watches and relates what they do ...
... voice which we hear . As a being whom we have called into life by magic arts , as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse , so the poet creates his persons , and then watches and relates what they do ...
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... voice which said , Gawain , Gawain , be not out of heart , for everything which must happen will come to pass . ' And when he heard the voice which thus called him by his right name , he replied , ' Who can this be who hath spoken to me ...
... voice which said , Gawain , Gawain , be not out of heart , for everything which must happen will come to pass . ' And when he heard the voice which thus called him by his right name , he replied , ' Who can this be who hath spoken to me ...
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... voice and face will all go right . And we are awkward for want of thought . The inspiration is scanty , and does not arrive at the extremities . It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived ...
... voice and face will all go right . And we are awkward for want of thought . The inspiration is scanty , and does not arrive at the extremities . It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived ...
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... voice , lead the cheer of a regiment ; another will have no following . Nature made us all intelligent of these ... voices are hoarse and truculent ; sometimes they even bark . There is the same difference between heavy and genial ...
... voice , lead the cheer of a regiment ; another will have no following . Nature made us all intelligent of these ... voices are hoarse and truculent ; sometimes they even bark . There is the same difference between heavy and genial ...
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appears astronomy believe Ben Jonson better birds Busk CHIG Confucius conversation death delight divine earth eloquence eternal existence experience express fact faculties fancy feel Firdousi fire force Gawain genius give Goethe Hafiz hand heard heart heaven hints human imagination immortality inspiration intellect king laws learned live look Madame de Staël manners matter ment Merlin metonomy mind moral Nachiketas nation nature never once orator passion perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetic poetry politics RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rhyme scholar secret seen sense sentiment Shakspeare Simorg sleep society song soul speak speech spirit Swedenborg talent thee things thou thought Timur tion true truth UNIV verse Viasa virtue voice whilst whole William Blake wise words write Yama Zoroaster
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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 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 48 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls...
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 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 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 155 - Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. But the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always some steep transition, some sudden alteration of temperature, or of point of view, betrays the foreign interpolation.
Página 152 - In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, and, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
Página 134 - Into his hands, or hang, th' offender : But they maturely having weigh'd, They had no more but him o...