The Works of Sir Henry Taylor, Issue 73, Volume 5H. S. King & Company, 1878 |
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... popular imagination is small , weak , and at the same time , highly excitable , -for , in the mind as in the body , inflammatory action proceeds as often from weakness as from fulness , —it is a truth which the very elect of the ...
... popular imagination is small , weak , and at the same time , highly excitable , -for , in the mind as in the body , inflammatory action proceeds as often from weakness as from fulness , —it is a truth which the very elect of the ...
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... popularity , more especially in the last ten years . * A marked change may be observed in the tone . taken upon the subject by those who float upon the current of society and make themselves the mouthpiece of its opinions . The time is ...
... popularity , more especially in the last ten years . * A marked change may be observed in the tone . taken upon the subject by those who float upon the current of society and make themselves the mouthpiece of its opinions . The time is ...
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... popular appetite , was attended therefore with eminent success , and brought a blight as of a poisonous insect upon the growth of everything that was great and noble . Criticism and poetry , which ought to flourish together as members ...
... popular appetite , was attended therefore with eminent success , and brought a blight as of a poisonous insect upon the growth of everything that was great and noble . Criticism and poetry , which ought to flourish together as members ...
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... popular error in the opposite extreme and to establish itself in spite of the hostility of critics . He was perhaps more afraid than was needful of indulging in the weak- ness of concession . " I am sensible , " he says in the preface ...
... popular error in the opposite extreme and to establish itself in spite of the hostility of critics . He was perhaps more afraid than was needful of indulging in the weak- ness of concession . " I am sensible , " he says in the preface ...
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... ; and if the simplicity of all Mr. Words- worth's earlier poems had been neither more nor less than this , his works would probably have been as popular from the first as they have lately begun to be 14 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS . 14.
... ; and if the simplicity of all Mr. Words- worth's earlier poems had been neither more nor less than this , his works would probably have been as popular from the first as they have lately begun to be 14 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS . 14.
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Page 13 - II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Page 110 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 27 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Page 52 - ... tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page xix - Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place?
Page 64 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
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Page 110 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 4 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Page 7 - MA Prayers, with a Discourse on Prayer. Edited by his Wife. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. Price 6s. Sermons on Disputed Points and Special Occasions. Edited by his Wife. Third Edition. Crown 8vo.