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Page 44
... feel , as we read , how , notwithstanding the masterly skill of the inventor , the progress of the historical action is impaired by the encumbrance of more or less incongruous episodes ; whilst the interest which would naturally be ...
... feel , as we read , how , notwithstanding the masterly skill of the inventor , the progress of the historical action is impaired by the encumbrance of more or less incongruous episodes ; whilst the interest which would naturally be ...
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... feel- ing of veneration for truth , assume the high and new office of an imaginative historian . Sismondi and Michaud on the Continent , Alison in England , have shown , to some extent , how history can be arrayed in almost as ...
... feel- ing of veneration for truth , assume the high and new office of an imaginative historian . Sismondi and Michaud on the Continent , Alison in England , have shown , to some extent , how history can be arrayed in almost as ...
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... feel in a high degree , and for- cibly to depict , those passions by which the bosoms of his coun- trymen were kindled during the appalling events of that memo- rable era . Jacopo Ortis " is an eminently Italian romance . It is in fact ...
... feel in a high degree , and for- cibly to depict , those passions by which the bosoms of his coun- trymen were kindled during the appalling events of that memo- rable era . Jacopo Ortis " is an eminently Italian romance . It is in fact ...
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... feeling , such as might well shame the maudlin sentimentality of modern roman- ticism , - " Jacopo Ortis " is , we think , far superior to the kindred German production , " The Sorrows of Werter , " with which it had long to contend for ...
... feeling , such as might well shame the maudlin sentimentality of modern roman- ticism , - " Jacopo Ortis " is , we think , far superior to the kindred German production , " The Sorrows of Werter , " with which it had long to contend for ...
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... feel inclined to quarrel with the spirit , and find fault with the form , of Manzoni's novel , we must , as we have before hinted , join in the enthusiastic applause of his countrymen as to its splendid details , its vividness of ...
... feel inclined to quarrel with the spirit , and find fault with the form , of Manzoni's novel , we must , as we have before hinted , join in the enthusiastic applause of his countrymen as to its splendid details , its vividness of ...
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Page 206 - Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Page 206 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 205 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, 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...
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Page 206 - Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. 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 206 - 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...