Essays and Reviews, Том 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... verse in his collection is not " the creation of new beauty , the manifestation of the real by the ideal , in words that move in metrical array . ' 999 It is rather commonplace , jingling its bells at certain fixed pauses in its smooth ...
... verse in his collection is not " the creation of new beauty , the manifestation of the real by the ideal , in words that move in metrical array . ' 999 It is rather commonplace , jingling its bells at certain fixed pauses in its smooth ...
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... verse is rarely mentioned without ridicule or affected contempt . 66 - We have no desire to exalt American poetry above its merits . We are sensible of its deficiencies , as compared with the great creations of English genius . We know ...
... verse is rarely mentioned without ridicule or affected contempt . 66 - We have no desire to exalt American poetry above its merits . We are sensible of its deficiencies , as compared with the great creations of English genius . We know ...
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... verse , a disposition on the part of the author to lash his muse into exertion ; and here and there , a tasteless or turgid epithet indicates that not always was he successful in " wreaking " his thoughts upon expression . No criticism ...
... verse , a disposition on the part of the author to lash his muse into exertion ; and here and there , a tasteless or turgid epithet indicates that not always was he successful in " wreaking " his thoughts upon expression . No criticism ...
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... Choice bits and morsels of thought and imagery , floating on the smooth stream of octosyllabic or seven - syllabled verse , are considered infallible signs of creative genius . Many " immortal " 46 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
... Choice bits and morsels of thought and imagery , floating on the smooth stream of octosyllabic or seven - syllabled verse , are considered infallible signs of creative genius . Many " immortal " 46 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
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... verse . Vanity and avarice are accordingly the moving principles of much which should spring directly from sentiment and imagination . Authors of the second rank may now be divided into two distinct classes . The one strives to win the ...
... verse . Vanity and avarice are accordingly the moving principles of much which should spring directly from sentiment and imagination . Authors of the second rank may now be divided into two distinct classes . The one strives to win the ...
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Стр. 346 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have...
Стр. 252 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Стр. 262 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Стр. 417 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Стр. 259 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Стр. 253 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Стр. 332 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Стр. 345 - Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Стр. 346 - Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Стр. 62 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.