Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper, 1833 - 324 sivua |
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... give a set to each of his brothers . " " Messrs . Harpers - New York , " GENTLEMEN : I wish you to send me all the numbers of the Library since the Life of Frederic the Great , to complete the set I began taking several months since ...
... give a set to each of his brothers . " " Messrs . Harpers - New York , " GENTLEMEN : I wish you to send me all the numbers of the Library since the Life of Frederic the Great , to complete the set I began taking several months since ...
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... give you a nearer example of myself , who ( I know not by what mischance , in these my not old years and idlest times ) , having slipped into the title of a poet , am provoked to say something unto you , in defence of that my unelected ...
... give you a nearer example of myself , who ( I know not by what mischance , in these my not old years and idlest times ) , having slipped into the title of a poet , am provoked to say something unto you , in defence of that my unelected ...
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... municates to the bosom of his reader the flame which burns in his own ; but the bosom thus enkindled cannot communicate the fire to a third . In the breast of the bard alone thanergy of thought which gives THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY . 11.
... municates to the bosom of his reader the flame which burns in his own ; but the bosom thus enkindled cannot communicate the fire to a third . In the breast of the bard alone thanergy of thought which gives THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY . 11.
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James Montgomery. breast of the bard alone thanergy of thought which gives birth to poetry is active principle ; in all others it is only a passive sentiment . That alone is true poetry which makes the reader himself a poet for the time ...
James Montgomery. breast of the bard alone thanergy of thought which gives birth to poetry is active principle ; in all others it is only a passive sentiment . That alone is true poetry which makes the reader himself a poet for the time ...
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... gives vent to his impa- tience at being necessitated to make his noble but reluctant numbers submit to be drilled and disci- plined to the tactics of a French composer . After enumerating some of his miserable shifts , he says , — " It ...
... gives vent to his impa- tience at being necessitated to make his noble but reluctant numbers submit to be drilled and disci- plined to the tactics of a French composer . After enumerating some of his miserable shifts , he says , — " It ...
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Sivu 28 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Sivu 263 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Sivu 29 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Sivu 225 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Sivu 243 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.
Sivu 13 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Sivu 227 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Sivu 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Sivu 139 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Sivu 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.