Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 2; Volume 65Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1865 |
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... thing required of genius is love of truth , " said Goethe . " To hold the mirror up to nature is another max- im ... things of life . He must select for them the worthiest objects of their contemplation , and exhibit these under the most ...
... thing required of genius is love of truth , " said Goethe . " To hold the mirror up to nature is another max- im ... things of life . He must select for them the worthiest objects of their contemplation , and exhibit these under the most ...
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... thing . To give in words or forms a full descrip- tion of any natural object would be im- possible . The mind must ... things as I painted them ; " or for the poet to answer that the story as he heard it first was encumbered with extra ...
... thing . To give in words or forms a full descrip- tion of any natural object would be im- possible . The mind must ... things as I painted them ; " or for the poet to answer that the story as he heard it first was encumbered with extra ...
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... thing he ex- amined distinctly by holding his head back , and the book or object over rather than before his eyes ... things rising to the rapture and ecstacy of truth beheld and known , beginning with the Erythræan sibyl , the symbol of ...
... thing he ex- amined distinctly by holding his head back , and the book or object over rather than before his eyes ... things rising to the rapture and ecstacy of truth beheld and known , beginning with the Erythræan sibyl , the symbol of ...
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... things was always clearly defined , and the thoughts of those who felt otherwise were like single clouds which never ... thing which raises Michael Angelo above the Greeks . To me it never- theless surpasses all other considerations ...
... things was always clearly defined , and the thoughts of those who felt otherwise were like single clouds which never ... thing which raises Michael Angelo above the Greeks . To me it never- theless surpasses all other considerations ...
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... things in this evil world , none of most delicate courtesy . After it had was so repulsive to a Jew as death . No sym ... thing , and the dead are never deposited in holy ground . Among the Jews arms , they made their salaam , and rode a ...
... things in this evil world , none of most delicate courtesy . After it had was so repulsive to a Jew as death . No sym ... thing , and the dead are never deposited in holy ground . Among the Jews arms , they made their salaam , and rode a ...
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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?