Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 páginas |
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... light of reality which was thrown around his subject by history , and give to it that supernatu- ral interest , which is found so capable of exciting admiration . However , in our cooler moments , we may laugh at his magicians and their ...
... light of reality which was thrown around his subject by history , and give to it that supernatu- ral interest , which is found so capable of exciting admiration . However , in our cooler moments , we may laugh at his magicians and their ...
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... light of science ; their forms no longer float in the fairy halls of earth , nor throng the untravelled regions of space . Their foot - prints , which our infant eyes saw impressed on this strange world of ours , and which once conjured ...
... light of science ; their forms no longer float in the fairy halls of earth , nor throng the untravelled regions of space . Their foot - prints , which our infant eyes saw impressed on this strange world of ours , and which once conjured ...
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... light penetrates , the winged mes- sengers of his pleasure . The narrow walls of patriotism are broken down , and he is a brother on whom the same sun shines , and who holds the same heritage , the earth . He is learning to reverse the ...
... light penetrates , the winged mes- sengers of his pleasure . The narrow walls of patriotism are broken down , and he is a brother on whom the same sun shines , and who holds the same heritage , the earth . He is learning to reverse the ...
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... light of our own consciousness . My object is to show , by an analysis of the char- acter of Shakspeare , that a desire of action was the ruling impulse of his mind ; and consequently a sense of existence its permanent state . That this ...
... light of our own consciousness . My object is to show , by an analysis of the char- acter of Shakspeare , that a desire of action was the ruling impulse of his mind ; and consequently a sense of existence its permanent state . That this ...
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... light for which he prayed , we too might exclaim " For who would lose , Though full of pain , this intellectual being , These thoughts that wander through eternity , To perish rather swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated ...
... light for which he prayed , we too might exclaim " For who would lose , Though full of pain , this intellectual being , These thoughts that wander through eternity , To perish rather swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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 gaze 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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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..
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
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Melville and the Politics of Identity: From King Lear to Moby-Dick Julian Markels Pré-visualização limitada - 1993 |
Romantische Ästhetik: Untersuchungen z. engl. Kunstlehre d. späten 18. u ... Herbert Mainusch Visualização de excertos - 1969 |