Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 pages |
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... admiration , he too was obliged to break from the bonds of the present , and soar beyond the bounds of history , before he could throw his spell of power over the mind . Why had he less influence ? Because he could not , like Homer ...
... admiration , he too was obliged to break from the bonds of the present , and soar beyond the bounds of history , before he could throw his spell of power over the mind . Why had he less influence ? Because he could not , like Homer ...
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... admiration , which is the leading aim of the epic poem . need not stop to show how ridiculous Iris would have appeared on the plains of Pharsalia bringing a sword to Pompey , or Venus coming to snatch him away in a cloud . It is evident ...
... admiration , which is the leading aim of the epic poem . need not stop to show how ridiculous Iris would have appeared on the plains of Pharsalia bringing a sword to Pompey , or Venus coming to snatch him away in a cloud . It is evident ...
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... admiration . However , in our cooler moments , we may laugh at his magicians and their incantations , as they are not mere embodied abstractions , like Voltaire's agents , but founded on the actual belief of his day , they will always ...
... admiration . However , in our cooler moments , we may laugh at his magicians and their incantations , as they are not mere embodied abstractions , like Voltaire's agents , but founded on the actual belief of his day , they will always ...
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... admiration , subjected him to a far greater difficulty than any yet experienced by former poets ; that of finding a subject , an action to fill those boundless realms of space , and call forth the energies of the spirits that people it ...
... admiration , subjected him to a far greater difficulty than any yet experienced by former poets ; that of finding a subject , an action to fill those boundless realms of space , and call forth the energies of the spirits that people it ...
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... admiration they then did , but because we have become sensible of a power within which bids the tide of war roll back upon its fountains . For the same reason it is that the manners of civilized nations are unsuited for heroic song ...
... admiration they then did , but because we have become sensible of a power within which bids the tide of war roll back upon its fountains . For the same reason it is that the manners of civilized nations are unsuited for heroic song ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom 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 motley fool natural action never 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
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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 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 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 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 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 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 ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
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...
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 46 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...