Essays and Reviews, Volume 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - American literature |
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... language , and happy turns of expres- sion , which charm us in Jeffrey ; displaying much of the imperious scorn , passionate strength , and swelling diction , of Brougham as brilliant , and as acute in critical dis- section , as Hazlitt ...
... language , and happy turns of expres- sion , which charm us in Jeffrey ; displaying much of the imperious scorn , passionate strength , and swelling diction , of Brougham as brilliant , and as acute in critical dis- section , as Hazlitt ...
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... language , and the scholar who has mastered its refinements , seem equally sensible to the charm of his diction . No matter how unpromising the subject on which he writes may appear to the common eye , in his hands it is made pleasing ...
... language , and the scholar who has mastered its refinements , seem equally sensible to the charm of his diction . No matter how unpromising the subject on which he writes may appear to the common eye , in his hands it is made pleasing ...
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... language , as is much which passes for great erudition ; but it goes through the alembic of a strong understanding , it is subjected to the scrutiny of a discriminating and weighty judgment , unshackled by authority , it is made to glow ...
... language , as is much which passes for great erudition ; but it goes through the alembic of a strong understanding , it is subjected to the scrutiny of a discriminating and weighty judgment , unshackled by authority , it is made to glow ...
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... language into bathos , or diluted it into senti- mentality . This absence of idol - worship in Macaulay adds much to the value of his opinions and investiga- tions , but at times it gives a kind of heartlessness to his manner , which ...
... language into bathos , or diluted it into senti- mentality . This absence of idol - worship in Macaulay adds much to the value of his opinions and investiga- tions , but at times it gives a kind of heartlessness to his manner , which ...
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... language , his wide grasp of thought and knowledge , the full strength of his passions , and the utmost splendor of his imagina- tion , are ever ready at the call of free principles to perform any needed service , —to unmask the ...
... language , his wide grasp of thought and knowledge , the full strength of his passions , and the utmost splendor of his imagina- tion , are ever ready at the call of free principles to perform any needed service , —to unmask the ...
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Page 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...
Page 252 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.