Literary Essays, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1890 - English literature |
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... Imagination , " whose very title , like a guide - post , points away from the level highway of commonplace to mountain - paths and less domestic prospects . The poem was stiff and unwilling , but in its loins lay the seed of nobler ...
... Imagination , " whose very title , like a guide - post , points away from the level highway of commonplace to mountain - paths and less domestic prospects . The poem was stiff and unwilling , but in its loins lay the seed of nobler ...
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... Imagination had cast her spell there . Wordsworth loved solitude in his appreciations as well as in his daily life , and was the readier to find merit in obscurity , because it gave him the plea- sure of being a first discoverer all by ...
... Imagination had cast her spell there . Wordsworth loved solitude in his appreciations as well as in his daily life , and was the readier to find merit in obscurity , because it gave him the plea- sure of being a first discoverer all by ...
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... imagination with palsy , and it is droll enough to see Voltaire , after he had got some knowledge of Shakespeare , continually endeavoring to reassure himself about the poetry of the grand siècle , and all the time asking himself ...
... imagination with palsy , and it is droll enough to see Voltaire , after he had got some knowledge of Shakespeare , continually endeavoring to reassure himself about the poetry of the grand siècle , and all the time asking himself ...
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... imagination altogether , and sent Nature about her business as an impertinent baggage whose household loom competed unlaw- fully with the machine - made fabrics , so exquisitely uniform in pattern , of the royal manufactories . There is ...
... imagination altogether , and sent Nature about her business as an impertinent baggage whose household loom competed unlaw- fully with the machine - made fabrics , so exquisitely uniform in pattern , of the royal manufactories . There is ...
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... imagination to fancy , from passion to wit , from metaphor , which fuses image and thought in one , to simile , which sets one beside the other , from the supreme code of the natural sympathies to the 1 Elegie on Doctor Wilson . But if ...
... imagination to fancy , from passion to wit , from metaphor , which fuses image and thought in one , to simile , which sets one beside the other , from the supreme code of the natural sympathies to the 1 Elegie on Doctor Wilson . But if ...
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Page 45 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
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 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 40 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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 203 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened : professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Page 85 - 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 203 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 41 - Wait the great teacher Death, and God adore. What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined, from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 334 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh, why should heavenly God to men have such regard ?1 This agrees with what is recorded of St.