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... genius , as if they could be approached indolently , thoughtlessly , and without preparatory discipline . When the term was most in use , it was meant for that which is essential literature , and yet how meanly inadequate and injurious ...
... genius , as if they could be approached indolently , thoughtlessly , and without preparatory discipline . When the term was most in use , it was meant for that which is essential literature , and yet how meanly inadequate and injurious ...
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... genius of the poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But ...
... genius of the poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But ...
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... genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the law of obedience and love . It is a beautiful example of the companionship of ...
... genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the law of obedience and love . It is a beautiful example of the companionship of ...
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... genius imagination is not an active element : there is no great poet into whose charac- ter the philosophic element does not largely enter . This should teach us a lesson in our studies of English lite- rature . For the combination of ...
... genius imagination is not an active element : there is no great poet into whose charac- ter the philosophic element does not largely enter . This should teach us a lesson in our studies of English lite- rature . For the combination of ...
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... genius which conceived the in- comprehensible character of Hamlet would alone be able to describe with intuitive truth the character of Scipio , or of Cromwell . " Now observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high ...
... genius which conceived the in- comprehensible character of Hamlet would alone be able to describe with intuitive truth the character of Scipio , or of Cromwell . " Now observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high ...
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Strona 195 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Strona 231 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Strona 167 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Strona 323 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Strona 224 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...
Strona 111 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It...
Strona 193 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Strona 305 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Strona 196 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste...
Strona 275 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love...