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... nature is limited to no age or country , and art may select from the whole range of nature those objects which suit her purposes , whether they have been handled by the ancient masters or not , provided she do not transcend the limits ...
... nature is limited to no age or country , and art may select from the whole range of nature those objects which suit her purposes , whether they have been handled by the ancient masters or not , provided she do not transcend the limits ...
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... Nature and observation which is , if we mistake not , one of the native tendencies of true genius . Upon the Rhine , where the narrative opens , it is carried for- ward so briefly and rapidly , that it would be difficult to confine ...
... Nature and observation which is , if we mistake not , one of the native tendencies of true genius . Upon the Rhine , where the narrative opens , it is carried for- ward so briefly and rapidly , that it would be difficult to confine ...
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... nature . He still retains the same curiosity - the same love of novelty - the same fondness for romance , and tales by the chimney- corner - and the same desire of wearing out the rainy day and the long winter evening with the illusions ...
... nature . He still retains the same curiosity - the same love of novelty - the same fondness for romance , and tales by the chimney- corner - and the same desire of wearing out the rainy day and the long winter evening with the illusions ...
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... nature spring up more freshly in its tranquillity and sun- shine , nurtured by the healthy principle which we inhale with the pure air , and invigorated by the genial influences which descend into the heart from the quiet of the sylvan ...
... nature spring up more freshly in its tranquillity and sun- shine , nurtured by the healthy principle which we inhale with the pure air , and invigorated by the genial influences which descend into the heart from the quiet of the sylvan ...
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... nature sought relief in sleep . The persons between whom this scene passed were a widow and her sick daughter , from the neighbourhood of Tours . They had left the banks of the Loire to consult the more experienced physicians of the ...
... nature sought relief in sleep . The persons between whom this scene passed were a widow and her sick daughter , from the neighbourhood of Tours . They had left the banks of the Loire to consult the more experienced physicians of the ...
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Página 74 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 269 - 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...
Página 283 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 469 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 291 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Página 276 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Página 278 - A. soul sheathed in a crystal shrine, Through which all her bright features shine ; As when a piece of wanton lawn, A thin...
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Página 584 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Página 13 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.