Studies in Philology, Volume 23University of North Carolina Press, 1926 - Electronic journals |
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... minds had made the trip on a variety of missions , had met and been entertained by England's most exclusive society , and had written their impressions home in the form of letters , journals , and travel books . Her outstanding ...
... minds had made the trip on a variety of missions , had met and been entertained by England's most exclusive society , and had written their impressions home in the form of letters , journals , and travel books . Her outstanding ...
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... mind ; while the latter was invariably recalled for his facility of conversation and his wide knowledge . 10 Life , Letters and Journals , I , 265-6 . Coleridge was , in these latter days , resident at Robert E. Spiller 7.
... mind ; while the latter was invariably recalled for his facility of conversation and his wide knowledge . 10 Life , Letters and Journals , I , 265-6 . Coleridge was , in these latter days , resident at Robert E. Spiller 7.
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... mind absorbed in his own vague thought , he presented a somewhat formidable though cordial aspect to his less intimate visitors . Of the other poets , Keats and Shelley are scarcely ever men- tioned , while the scandal connected with ...
... mind absorbed in his own vague thought , he presented a somewhat formidable though cordial aspect to his less intimate visitors . Of the other poets , Keats and Shelley are scarcely ever men- tioned , while the scandal connected with ...
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... mind lived in an England of the past , an England that never was . He sought out the places made famous by literary and historical associations . He would go far to see Stratford , but experienced no unusual excite- ment at a first ...
... mind lived in an England of the past , an England that never was . He sought out the places made famous by literary and historical associations . He would go far to see Stratford , but experienced no unusual excite- ment at a first ...
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... minds have over those of a more ordinary stamp ; by a tacit , yet universal submission to the aristocracy of experience , talents , and virtue . Chapter IX . Oratory . The eloquence of the Indians is natural and simple ; they speak what ...
... minds have over those of a more ordinary stamp ; by a tacit , yet universal submission to the aristocracy of experience , talents , and virtue . Chapter IX . Oratory . The eloquence of the Indians is natural and simple ; they speak what ...
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Page 72 - The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space, while it is blended with, and modified by, that empirical phenomenon of the will which we express by the word choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.
Page 72 - 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.
Page 77 - I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Page 432 - So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence Had risen, or heav'd his head ; but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs...
Page 72 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it Struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 192 - The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 40 - So far as I am a man of really individual attributes I veil my face ; nor am I, nor have I ever been, one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit for their beloved public.
Page 171 - As, when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Page 72 - Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile!
Page 192 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.