Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 2; Volume 65Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1865 |
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... readers may perhaps ask why it is , that when we allege that the whole of the winds of the globe owe their origin to a regular circulation of the air from the Polar regions to the equator , and Let us notice a few points and epochs in ...
... readers may perhaps ask why it is , that when we allege that the whole of the winds of the globe owe their origin to a regular circulation of the air from the Polar regions to the equator , and Let us notice a few points and epochs in ...
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... readers know , was the dream and had never done anything in colors . The the realization of Angelo half a century Pope more pertinaciously insisted that he after . The Basilica of St. Peter was a should paint the vault of the Sistine ...
... readers know , was the dream and had never done anything in colors . The the realization of Angelo half a century Pope more pertinaciously insisted that he after . The Basilica of St. Peter was a should paint the vault of the Sistine ...
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... readers . A French book is rarely altogether dull ; we may be sure that its plan will be symmetrical , its style light and spir- ited , its language epigrammatic . Its theories , even if shallow or unsound , will assuredly be suggested ...
... readers . A French book is rarely altogether dull ; we may be sure that its plan will be symmetrical , its style light and spir- ited , its language epigrammatic . Its theories , even if shallow or unsound , will assuredly be suggested ...
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Foreign Literature. aside propriety and clearness , and attains life . " English readers , while accepting an acute French critic's praises of Shak- speare's imagination , will not subscribe to his censures upon the peculiar language in ...
Foreign Literature. aside propriety and clearness , and attains life . " English readers , while accepting an acute French critic's praises of Shak- speare's imagination , will not subscribe to his censures upon the peculiar language in ...
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... reader's comprehension in the words " The Haram is about the size of St. James's Park , within the rails . " Again ... readers with true eloquence and powerful ef fect : " In the eyes of a Jew that city of Tiberias , bright as it may ...
... reader's comprehension in the words " The Haram is about the size of St. James's Park , within the rails . " Again ... readers with true eloquence and powerful ef fect : " In the eyes of a Jew that city of Tiberias , bright as it may ...
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Page 408 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 83 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 59 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result...
Page 62 - ... the best ideas, on every matter which literature touches, current at the time; at any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very important or fruitful. And I say current at the time...
Page 77 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 59 - ... outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local, and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which most thoroughly carries out this programme.
Page 292 - ... days since I was compelled to give a note for seven pounds, to avoid an arrest for about double that sum which I owe. I wrote to every friend I had, but my friends are poor likewise : the time of payment approached, and I ventured to represent my case to Lord Rochford.
Page 62 - ... the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them, in short.
Page 181 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Page 69 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection — to beauty in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?