The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7Wiley and Putnam, 1848 |
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... verses were an extemporaneous effusion from the pen of the late GEORGE H. COLTON , the Editor and Founder of this ... verse used by the moderns , he was practically familiar ; nor did any appreciate better the peculiar excellencies of ...
... verses were an extemporaneous effusion from the pen of the late GEORGE H. COLTON , the Editor and Founder of this ... verse used by the moderns , he was practically familiar ; nor did any appreciate better the peculiar excellencies of ...
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... verses were inter- rupted by the summons of the executioner . It is not so generally known that this man was one of the most vigorous , independent , and sagacious writers of the exciting pe- riod at which he lived . The first feeling ...
... verses were inter- rupted by the summons of the executioner . It is not so generally known that this man was one of the most vigorous , independent , and sagacious writers of the exciting pe- riod at which he lived . The first feeling ...
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... verse . He sketched a plan for the new ovation : — The Romans used to engrave on brass the names of those generals to whom they granted a triumph , and their titles to so great an honor . I suppose the city of Paris will follow this ex ...
... verse . He sketched a plan for the new ovation : — The Romans used to engrave on brass the names of those generals to whom they granted a triumph , and their titles to so great an honor . I suppose the city of Paris will follow this ex ...
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... verses on the eve of a great battle , was almost an ordinary night's work ! " " That such a consummate general , the monarch of the nation , should be surrounded with able commanders , is no way astonish- ing . Himself sharing in all ...
... verses on the eve of a great battle , was almost an ordinary night's work ! " " That such a consummate general , the monarch of the nation , should be surrounded with able commanders , is no way astonish- ing . Himself sharing in all ...
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... verses of considerable merit . 66 The following ballad , which is among the best of the collection , has lately fur- nished the subject of a beautiful painting [ from the pencil of Munchen . thies and feelings lie garnered up among the ...
... verses of considerable merit . 66 The following ballad , which is among the best of the collection , has lately fur- nished the subject of a beautiful painting [ from the pencil of Munchen . thies and feelings lie garnered up among the ...
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Page 158 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 33 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 162 - When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Page 162 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Page 158 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Page 159 - 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 159 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 21 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 167 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white than snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 158 - What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet ? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other. For it is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind.