Literary Essays, Volume 4Macmillan, 1890 - European literature |
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... matters of taste the Anglo - Saxon mind seems always to have felt a painful distrust of itself , which it betrays either in an affectation of burly contempt or in a pretence of admiration equally insincere . The young lords who were to ...
... matters of taste the Anglo - Saxon mind seems always to have felt a painful distrust of itself , which it betrays either in an affectation of burly contempt or in a pretence of admiration equally insincere . The young lords who were to ...
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... matter of importance talk . " [ Exeunt . Blank verse , where the sentiment is trivial as here , merely removes prose to a proper ideal distance , where it is in keeping with more impassioned parts , but commonplace set to this rocking ...
... matter of importance talk . " [ Exeunt . Blank verse , where the sentiment is trivial as here , merely removes prose to a proper ideal distance , where it is in keeping with more impassioned parts , but commonplace set to this rocking ...
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... , namely , than one of those eternal controversies of taste which will last as long as the imagination and understanding divide men between them . It is not a matter to be settled by any amount of argument or demonstra- tion . 26 POPE.
... , namely , than one of those eternal controversies of taste which will last as long as the imagination and understanding divide men between them . It is not a matter to be settled by any amount of argument or demonstra- tion . 26 POPE.
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... matter . Wordsworth was not in a condition to do Pope justice . A man brought up in sublime mountain solitudes , and whose nature was a solitude more vast than they , walking an earth which quivered with the throe of the French ...
... matter . Wordsworth was not in a condition to do Pope justice . A man brought up in sublime mountain solitudes , and whose nature was a solitude more vast than they , walking an earth which quivered with the throe of the French ...
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... matter . If we compare it with the " Midsummer - night's Dream , " an uncomforta- ble doubt is suggested . The perfection of form in the " Rape of the Lock " is to me conclusive evi- dence that in it the natural genius of Pope found ...
... matter . If we compare it with the " Midsummer - night's Dream , " an uncomforta- ble doubt is suggested . The perfection of form in the " Rape of the Lock " is to me conclusive evi- dence that in it the natural genius of Pope found ...
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Page 45 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 203 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 39 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 45 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 40 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 110 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 41 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no...
Page 203 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened : professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Page 38 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 85 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.