Littell's Living Age, Volume 16Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1848 - Literature |
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... nature . This alone were sufficient to separate him from the crowd of common writers . For the rest of his works , if you will look at them kindly , and with a friendly scrutiny , you will find many a natural sentiment vividly reflected ...
... nature . This alone were sufficient to separate him from the crowd of common writers . For the rest of his works , if you will look at them kindly , and with a friendly scrutiny , you will find many a natural sentiment vividly reflected ...
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... nature . The commencement of his serious novels , where he treats of the infancy and boyhood of his heroes , is always interesting . Amongst the translated works of Andersen is one entitled " A Picture - Book without Pictures . " The ...
... nature . The commencement of his serious novels , where he treats of the infancy and boyhood of his heroes , is always interesting . Amongst the translated works of Andersen is one entitled " A Picture - Book without Pictures . " The ...
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... nature would have felt only mortification . In a scene of an opera We should think so . Only imagine some wild where ... natural description introducing the more plainly the shortness of the waistcoat himself into the drawing - room of a ...
... nature would have felt only mortification . In a scene of an opera We should think so . Only imagine some wild where ... natural description introducing the more plainly the shortness of the waistcoat himself into the drawing - room of a ...
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... nature and experience- a truth which , if he had fully appreciated , or had manfully adhered to , would have enabled ... natures as Andersen's there is often found a modesty more than a woman's , combined with a vivid feeling of beauty ...
... nature and experience- a truth which , if he had fully appreciated , or had manfully adhered to , would have enabled ... natures as Andersen's there is often found a modesty more than a woman's , combined with a vivid feeling of beauty ...
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... nature . Christian , still a boy , is at play with his com- panions ; he hides from them in the belfry of a church ... natural horror of the situation by no means satisfies this novelist ; he therefore engrafts the following im ...
... nature . Christian , still a boy , is at play with his com- panions ; he hides from them in the belfry of a church ... natural horror of the situation by no means satisfies this novelist ; he therefore engrafts the following im ...
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Page 67 - A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour...
Page 276 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 281 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 4 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 66 - This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Page 4 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!
Page 100 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 66 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 100 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Page 63 - It had been long abandoned, for its sides Gaped wide with many a rift, and its frail joints Swayed with the undulations of the tide. A restless impulse urged him to embark, And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste ; For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves The slimy caverns of the populous deep.