Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 pages |
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... wonder was peculiarly favor- able . The advance , which the human mind had made towards civilization , prevented Virgil from making a like impression on his own age . To awaken admiration , he too was obliged to break from the bonds of ...
... wonder was peculiarly favor- able . The advance , which the human mind had made towards civilization , prevented Virgil from making a like impression on his own age . To awaken admiration , he too was obliged to break from the bonds of ...
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... wonder and interest of the world is now transferred to the mind , whose thought is action , and whose word is power . Lord Kames therefore erred , when he said " that it was the familiarity of modern manners that unqualified them for ...
... wonder and interest of the world is now transferred to the mind , whose thought is action , and whose word is power . Lord Kames therefore erred , when he said " that it was the familiarity of modern manners that unqualified them for ...
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... wonder on the new - risen generations of men . But if , like Lucan , they took their subject from the hands of History , the skepticism of a more advanced age deprived them of the use of machinery , and conse- quently of the power of ...
... wonder on the new - risen generations of men . But if , like Lucan , they took their subject from the hands of History , the skepticism of a more advanced age deprived them of the use of machinery , and conse- quently of the power of ...
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... struggle of the will to control the springs of action . It is this which gives to tragedy its superiority over the epic at the present day ; it strikes off the chains of wonder by which man has been so long fettered 28 EPIC POETRY .
... struggle of the will to control the springs of action . It is this which gives to tragedy its superiority over the epic at the present day ; it strikes off the chains of wonder by which man has been so long fettered 28 EPIC POETRY .
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Jones Very Ralph Waldo Emerson. of wonder by which man has been so long fettered to the objects of sense , and , instead of calling upon him to admire the torrent - streams of war , it bids the bosom open whence they rushed , and points ...
Jones Very Ralph Waldo Emerson. of wonder by which man has been so long fettered to the objects of sense , and , instead of calling upon him to admire the torrent - streams of war , it bids the bosom open whence they rushed , and points ...
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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...