Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1869 - 317 pages |
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... imagination almost fails to grasp it . Ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo . If I have insisted so much on the course which criticism must take where politics and religion are con- cerned , it is because , where these burning matters are ...
... imagination almost fails to grasp it . Ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo . If I have insisted so much on the course which criticism must take where politics and religion are con- cerned , it is because , where these burning matters are ...
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... imagination which they exhibit , -qualities which are the distinctive support of poetry . But , as I have said , the qualities of genius are less trans- ferable than the qualities of intelligence ; less can be immediately learned and ...
... imagination which they exhibit , -qualities which are the distinctive support of poetry . But , as I have said , the qualities of genius are less trans- ferable than the qualities of intelligence ; less can be immediately learned and ...
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... imaginative ; yes , that is just it , it is Asiatic prose , as the ancient critics would have said ; prose somewhat barbarously rich and overloaded . But the true prose is Attic prose . ---- * Well , but Addison's prose is Attic prose ...
... imaginative ; yes , that is just it , it is Asiatic prose , as the ancient critics would have said ; prose somewhat barbarously rich and overloaded . But the true prose is Attic prose . ---- * Well , but Addison's prose is Attic prose ...
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... imagination will still fall far short of these home - joys in their delightful reality . " I said the foregoing should be my last extract , but who could resist this picture of a January evening on the coast of Brittany ? — " All the ...
... imagination will still fall far short of these home - joys in their delightful reality . " I said the foregoing should be my last extract , but who could resist this picture of a January evening on the coast of Brittany ? — " All the ...
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... imagination and held it prisoner . Poetry is the inter- pretress of the natural world , and she is the interpretress of the moral world ; it was as the interpretress of the natural world that she had Guérin for her mouthpiece . To make ...
... imagination and held it prisoner . Poetry is the inter- pretress of the natural world , and she is the interpretress of the moral world ; it was as the interpretress of the natural world that she had Guérin for her mouthpiece . To make ...
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Page 200 - Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
Page 210 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 49 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Page 227 - From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...
Page xxi - ... 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...
Page 74 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Page xxii - It is the business of the critical power, as I said in the words already quoted, "in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is.
Page 37 - ... heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness — look up towards the higher hills, where the waves of everlasting green roll silently into their long inlets among the shadows of the pines; and we may, perhaps, at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, "He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Page 14 - ... the best race in the world;' by the Ilissus there was no Wragg, poor thing! And 'our unrivalled happiness;' — what an element of grimness, bareness, and hideousness mixes with it and blurs it; the workhouse, the dismal Mapperly Hills, — how dismal those who have seen them will remember; — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! 'I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?
Page xxii - ... the creation of a modern poet, to be worth much, implies a great critical effort behind it; else it must be a comparatively poor, barren, and shortlived affair.