Literary Essays, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1890 - English literature |
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... sense hold the mirror up to nature . His poetry is not a mountain - tarn , like that of Words- worth ; it is not in sympathy with the higher moods of the mind ; yet it continues entertaining , in spite of all changes of mode . It was a ...
... sense hold the mirror up to nature . His poetry is not a mountain - tarn , like that of Words- worth ; it is not in sympathy with the higher moods of the mind ; yet it continues entertaining , in spite of all changes of mode . It was a ...
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... sense of inferiority it feels in the presence of an accomplished worldliness . The code of society is stronger with most persons than that of Sinai , and many a man who would not scruple to thrust his fingers in his neighbor's pocket ...
... sense of inferiority it feels in the presence of an accomplished worldliness . The code of society is stronger with most persons than that of Sinai , and many a man who would not scruple to thrust his fingers in his neighbor's pocket ...
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... sense breaks through the clouds of rhetoric , and gilds the clipped hedges over which his thought clambers like an unpruned vine , - Dryden , one of the most truly English of English authors , did more than all others com- bined to ...
... sense breaks through the clouds of rhetoric , and gilds the clipped hedges over which his thought clambers like an unpruned vine , - Dryden , one of the most truly English of English authors , did more than all others com- bined to ...
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... sense of lim- itation . Fancy Othello or Lear confined to this go - cart ! Phillips touches the true point when he says , " And the truth is , the use of measure alone , without any rime at all , would give more scope and liberty both ...
... sense of lim- itation . Fancy Othello or Lear confined to this go - cart ! Phillips touches the true point when he says , " And the truth is , the use of measure alone , without any rime at all , would give more scope and liberty both ...
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... sense and discretion , as well as wit , which afterward so eminently distinguished him . The facility of expression is remarkable , and we find also that perfect balance of metre , which he afterward carried so far as to be wearisome ...
... sense and discretion , as well as wit , which afterward so eminently distinguished him . The facility of expression is remarkable , and we find also that perfect balance of metre , which he afterward carried so far as to be wearisome ...
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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.