The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essaysPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 452 pages |
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... seems to have felt that there was a dreadful mistake some- where , when poetry must be called upon to prove itself inspired , above all when it must demonstrate that it is interesting , all appearances to the con- trary notwithstanding ...
... seems to have felt that there was a dreadful mistake some- where , when poetry must be called upon to prove itself inspired , above all when it must demonstrate that it is interesting , all appearances to the con- trary notwithstanding ...
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... seems always to have felt a painful distrust of itself , which it betrays either in an affectation of burly contempt or in a pretence of admiration equally insincere . The young lords who were to make the future court of Charles II . no ...
... seems always to have felt a painful distrust of itself , which it betrays either in an affectation of burly contempt or in a pretence of admiration equally insincere . The young lords who were to make the future court of Charles II . no ...
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... seems to have occurred to Waller that it is the substance of what you polish , and not the polish itself , that ... seem to be a manifest reminiscence of 1 Usually printed arms , but Dryden certainly wrote arm , to correspond with dint ...
... seems to have occurred to Waller that it is the substance of what you polish , and not the polish itself , that ... seem to be a manifest reminiscence of 1 Usually printed arms , but Dryden certainly wrote arm , to correspond with dint ...
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... seems sometimes that nature is not made in England as it is else- where . " Eh bien , the inference is that we must try and make it so ! The world must be uniform in order to be comfortable , and what fashion so becoming as the one we ...
... seems sometimes that nature is not made in England as it is else- where . " Eh bien , the inference is that we must try and make it so ! The world must be uniform in order to be comfortable , and what fashion so becoming as the one we ...
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... seems to have been an universal scepticism , and in its worst form , that is , with an outward conformity in the interest of decorum and order . There was an unbelief that did not believe even in itself . The difference between the ...
... seems to have been an universal scepticism , and in its worst form , that is , with an outward conformity in the interest of decorum and order . There was an unbelief that did not believe even in itself . The difference between the ...
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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.