The National Review, Volume 15Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1862 |
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... expression , whether in poetry , painting , or music , must inevitably be exposed to a host of subtle temptations that are inseparable from the artistic temperament . Now and then we meet with a stoical poet like Milton , or Michael ...
... expression , whether in poetry , painting , or music , must inevitably be exposed to a host of subtle temptations that are inseparable from the artistic temperament . Now and then we meet with a stoical poet like Milton , or Michael ...
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... expressed in the most simple and natural manner . Why , then , make them sound like a mere formula ? and , in truth ... expression in it , because there is none of any kind ; but does not this very fact prove the desecration of the words ...
... expressed in the most simple and natural manner . Why , then , make them sound like a mere formula ? and , in truth ... expression in it , because there is none of any kind ; but does not this very fact prove the desecration of the words ...
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... expressed by the words , it is equally contained in the music . This is the case with the Passion ' of Sebastian Bach ; but as they sing it here , it is very imperfect , being neither a simple narrative , nor yet a grand solemn dramatic ...
... expressed by the words , it is equally contained in the music . This is the case with the Passion ' of Sebastian Bach ; but as they sing it here , it is very imperfect , being neither a simple narrative , nor yet a grand solemn dramatic ...
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... expression of Goethe's suddenly re- curred to my mind . In the course of a long conversation about Schiller , he said that Schiller had been able to supply two great tragedies every year , besides other poems . This business - like term ...
... expression of Goethe's suddenly re- curred to my mind . In the course of a long conversation about Schiller , he said that Schiller had been able to supply two great tragedies every year , besides other poems . This business - like term ...
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... expression is contained in the chorus , " How lovely are the messengers that preach us the gospel of peace ! " The style of this chorus is of a peculiar kind , of which the instances best known in England are Handel's Pastoral Symphony ...
... expression is contained in the chorus , " How lovely are the messengers that preach us the gospel of peace ! " The style of this chorus is of a peculiar kind , of which the instances best known in England are Handel's Pastoral Symphony ...
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Page 95 - Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
Page 35 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
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Page 44 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : and they served other gods.
Page 93 - Then saw I many broken hinted sights In the uncertain state I stepp'd into. Meseem'd to be I know not in what place, Where ladies through the street, like mournful lights, Ran with loose hair, and eyes that frighten'd you By their own terror, and a pale amaze: The while, little by little, as I thought, The sun ceased, and the stars began to gather, And each wept at the other; And birds...
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Page 132 - Thea, I feel thee ere I see thy face; Look up, and let me see our doom in it; Look up, and tell me if this feeble shape Is Saturn's; tell me, if thou hear'st the voice Of Saturn; tell me, if this wrinkling brow, 100 Naked and bare of its great diadem, Peers like the front of Saturn.