Essays and PoemsArno Press, 1972 - 175 pages |
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... creations of Ariosto , —of his fairy bowers and castles and palaces , we are for a moment charmed and wrapt in pleasant reveries , but they are but dreams ; the impression is soon shaken off ; we are conscious of no master - feeling ...
... creations of Ariosto , —of his fairy bowers and castles and palaces , we are for a moment charmed and wrapt in pleasant reveries , but they are but dreams ; the impression is soon shaken off ; we are conscious of no master - feeling ...
Page 60
... creation like a bauble from hand to hand , embodying in turn each capricious shade of thought . " Thus it was , that , while others were making ends of things , he gave to them their deeper significance of life and death , of time , and ...
... creation like a bauble from hand to hand , embodying in turn each capricious shade of thought . " Thus it was , that , while others were making ends of things , he gave to them their deeper significance of life and death , of time , and ...
Page 76
... creations are natural , but they are unconsciously so . He could but give to them his own life , which was one of impulse and not of principle . Man's brightest dignity is conscious nature ; and virtue when depriv- ed of this is robbed ...
... creations are natural , but they are unconsciously so . He could but give to them his own life , which was one of impulse and not of principle . Man's brightest dignity is conscious nature ; and virtue when depriv- ed of this is robbed ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom Boston breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive Nathaniel Parker natural action never night o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words