Essays and Reviews, Volume 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - American literature |
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... meaning and bad - writing theologians , for undeveloped geniuses , for pompous pedantry , for respectable stupidity , for every variety of the tame , the frigid , and the low , he has an imperious and crushing contempt . There are many ...
... meaning and bad - writing theologians , for undeveloped geniuses , for pompous pedantry , for respectable stupidity , for every variety of the tame , the frigid , and the low , he has an imperious and crushing contempt . There are many ...
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... meaning to what is simply bom- bast , affectation , or nonsense , he has avoided with commendable diligence . He makes no demand on our charity , in favor of some poetaster , for whom he may have imbibed a strange affection . He does ...
... meaning to what is simply bom- bast , affectation , or nonsense , he has avoided with commendable diligence . He makes no demand on our charity , in favor of some poetaster , for whom he may have imbibed a strange affection . He does ...
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... meaning . No dominion over the mere shows of poetical expression could enable a man , without a full heart , to write anything equal to it . " We are but two , the others sleep Through Death's untroubled night : We are but two , - oh ...
... meaning . No dominion over the mere shows of poetical expression could enable a man , without a full heart , to write anything equal to it . " We are but two , the others sleep Through Death's untroubled night : We are but two , - oh ...
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... meaning which underlies natural objects , without misrepresent- ing nature . He gives the sensible image with so much clearness and compression , that it becomes immediately apparent to the eye ; and the language in which he pic- tures ...
... meaning which underlies natural objects , without misrepresent- ing nature . He gives the sensible image with so much clearness and compression , that it becomes immediately apparent to the eye ; and the language in which he pic- tures ...
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... meaning , then to be artistical is a fault or an affecta- tion . The best artist is he who accommodates his dic- tion to his subject , and in this sense , Longfellow is an artist . By learning " to labor and to wait , " by steadily ...
... meaning , then to be artistical is a fault or an affecta- tion . The best artist is he who accommodates his dic- tion to his subject , and in this sense , Longfellow is an artist . By learning " to labor and to wait , " by steadily ...
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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.