Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... writes thus : " He who does not imagine in stronger and 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 ...
... writes thus : " He who does not imagine in stronger and 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 ...
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... writer is a skater , and must go partly where he would , and partly where the skates carry him ; or a sailor , who ... writes from a real experience , the ama- teur feigns one . Of course , one draws the bow with his fingers , and the ...
... writer is a skater , and must go partly where he would , and partly where the skates carry him ; or a sailor , who ... writes from a real experience , the ama- teur feigns one . Of course , one draws the bow with his fingers , and the ...
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... Write , that I may know you . Style betrays you , as your eyes do . We detect at once by it whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought , exists at the moment for that alone , or whether he has one eye apolo- gizing ...
... Write , that I may know you . Style betrays you , as your eyes do . We detect at once by it whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought , exists at the moment for that alone , or whether he has one eye apolo- gizing ...
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... writer is released from the solemn rhyth- mic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy , and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature . Yet the writer holds it cheap , and ...
... writer is released from the solemn rhyth- mic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy , and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature . Yet the writer holds it cheap , and ...
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... writer , like the priest , must be exempted from secular labor . His work needs a frolic health ; he must be at the top of his condition . In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and materials , of feats ...
... writer , like the priest , must be exempted from secular labor . His work needs a frolic health ; he must be at the top of his condition . In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and materials , of feats ...
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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...