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... never formed , or a moral which he never conceiv ed . The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must , we think , prove the most correct . It originated , doubtless , in that desire , which every great poet must ...
... never formed , or a moral which he never conceiv ed . The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must , we think , prove the most correct . It originated , doubtless , in that desire , which every great poet must ...
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... never become the representatives of greatness , they have fallen from the high sphere which they occu- pied in a less advanced stage of the human mind , never to regain it . This will account for the appear- ance among us of such works ...
... never become the representatives of greatness , they have fallen from the high sphere which they occu- pied in a less advanced stage of the human mind , never to regain it . This will account for the appear- ance among us of such works ...
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... never be at rest , at home with them , we can never really see the same heaven and the same earth , either that our fellow men or that the Father of our spirits beholds , until by our own life that perfect union and relationship has ...
... never be at rest , at home with them , we can never really see the same heaven and the same earth , either that our fellow men or that the Father of our spirits beholds , until by our own life that perfect union and relationship has ...
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... never visible save in action , in the ever new , ever changing aspect of nature and of man . Truth and time are separate rays only when seen through the medium of an imperfect act ; but through the perfect and entire action of the mind ...
... never visible save in action , in the ever new , ever changing aspect of nature and of man . Truth and time are separate rays only when seen through the medium of an imperfect act ; but through the perfect and entire action of the mind ...
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... never have given us a character like Satan's . He has indeed made us feel in the impulses of our nature a depth and strength of which before we had scarcely any conception . The whispers of conscience and the prompting of natural ...
... never have given us a character like Satan's . He has indeed made us feel in the impulses of our nature a depth and strength of which before we had scarcely any conception . The whispers of conscience and the prompting of natural ...
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Page 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...