Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Nide 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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Sivu 20
... look less at individuals , and more at classes . They therefore make better theories , and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyze human ...
... look less at individuals , and more at classes . They therefore make better theories , and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyze human ...
Sivu 24
... look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse of the gorgeous and terrible panoply which it is accustomed to wear . The strength of his imagination triumphed over 24 ...
... look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse of the gorgeous and terrible panoply which it is accustomed to wear . The strength of his imagination triumphed over 24 ...
Sivu 27
... bodies ; so that the same face looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hus- sar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers MILTON . 27.
... bodies ; so that the same face looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hus- sar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers MILTON . 27.
Sivu 41
... look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive ...
... look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive ...
Sivu 44
... look for a parallel . It would indeed be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences , as to the character of a writer , from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
... look for a parallel . It would indeed be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences , as to the character of a writer , from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Sivu 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Sivu 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Sivu 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Sivu 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...