The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essaysPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 452 pages |
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Page 58
... Masson is giving to that of Milton , their authors should send a phial of elixir vita with the first volume , that a purchaser might have some valid assurance of surviving to see the last . Mr. Masson has already occupied thirteen ...
... Masson is giving to that of Milton , their authors should send a phial of elixir vita with the first volume , that a purchaser might have some valid assurance of surviving to see the last . Mr. Masson has already occupied thirteen ...
Page 59
... Masson's temperament , we may be pardoned if a sigh of doubt and discouragement escape us . We envy the secular leisures of Methu- saleh , and are thankful that his biography at least ( if written in the same longeval proportion ) is ir ...
... Masson's temperament , we may be pardoned if a sigh of doubt and discouragement escape us . We envy the secular leisures of Methu- saleh , and are thankful that his biography at least ( if written in the same longeval proportion ) is ir ...
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... Masson himself has an uneasy conscious- ness that something is wrong , and that Milton ought somehow to be more than ... Masson's covert sarcasm . I confess with shame a pusillanimity that is apt to flag if a " to be contin- ued " do not ...
... Masson himself has an uneasy conscious- ness that something is wrong , and that Milton ought somehow to be more than ... Masson's covert sarcasm . I confess with shame a pusillanimity that is apt to flag if a " to be contin- ued " do not ...
Page 61
... Masson mean by " continuous " ? To me it seems rather as if his somewhat rambling history of the seventeenth century ... Masson's " historical inquiries . " The more thorough the better , so far as they were essential to the satisfactory ...
... Masson mean by " continuous " ? To me it seems rather as if his somewhat rambling history of the seventeenth century ... Masson's " historical inquiries . " The more thorough the better , so far as they were essential to the satisfactory ...
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... for help or hindrance . We are blinded with the dust of old papers ran- sacked by Mr. Masson to find out that they have no relation whatever to his hero . He had been wise · · if he had kept constantly in view what 62 MILTON.
... for help or hindrance . We are blinded with the dust of old papers ran- sacked by Mr. Masson to find out that they have no relation whatever to his hero . He had been wise · · if he had kept constantly in view what 62 MILTON.
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Page 39 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 251 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Page 45 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 288 - Selinus all alone With blossoms brave bedecked daintily, Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath that under heaven is blown.
Page 41 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no...
Page 61 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Page 38 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 34 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks. And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux.
Page 39 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
Page 53 - Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute.