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... character extends not to his rhymes , but he treats them with as much disrespect as if they had proceeded from the ... character , his scorn is severe for what is little and mean . In the dissection he makes of Ba- con's moral character ...
... character extends not to his rhymes , but he treats them with as much disrespect as if they had proceeded from the ... character , his scorn is severe for what is little and mean . In the dissection he makes of Ba- con's moral character ...
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... agreeable alterna- tions of sentiment and satire , its numerous pictures of life , character , and manners , its vigorous thought and brilliant wit , and the genial spirit which animates it throughout 42 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
... agreeable alterna- tions of sentiment and satire , its numerous pictures of life , character , and manners , its vigorous thought and brilliant wit , and the genial spirit which animates it throughout 42 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
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... character , also , he is often very successful . Mat Lee , the Buccaneer , is powerfully drawn . He is one of those ideal beings , who become existences as real to the mind , as any friend or enemy of whom we have had long experience ...
... character , also , he is often very successful . Mat Lee , the Buccaneer , is powerfully drawn . He is one of those ideal beings , who become existences as real to the mind , as any friend or enemy of whom we have had long experience ...
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... character , or in vivifying description , or in suggesting ana- logies , or in assisting to give that inexpressible tone to his compositions which analysis toils after in vain , -it seems equally predominant . In the selection of his ...
... character , or in vivifying description , or in suggesting ana- logies , or in assisting to give that inexpressible tone to his compositions which analysis toils after in vain , -it seems equally predominant . In the selection of his ...
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... character of truth and feeling , that even the most commonplace axiom receives a new import- ance when touched by his heart , and colored by his imagi- nation . To make extracts from Bryant , in illustration of the qualities of his mind ...
... character of truth and feeling , that even the most commonplace axiom receives a new import- ance when touched by his heart , and colored by his imagi- nation . To make extracts from Bryant , in illustration of the qualities of his mind ...
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Page 330 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 249 - 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 260 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Page 240 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 240 - 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 284 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Page 180 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 329 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 278 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...
Page 20 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.