The Metropolitan, Volume 46James Cochrane, 1846 - English literature |
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Page 72 - The blood and spirits of Le Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart, — rallied back, — the film forsook his eyes for a moment ; — he looked up wishfully in my uncle Toby's face ; — then cast a look upon his boy ; — and that ligament, fine as it was — was never broken ! Nature instantly ebb'd again; — the film returned to its place ; — the pulse fluttered ; — stopped ; — went on,— throbbed, — stopped again; —...
Page 416 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 16 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Page 144 - Oh the dark days of vanity ! while here, How tasteless ! and how terrible when gone ! Gone ! they ne'er go ; when past, they haunt us still...
Page 289 - As Genius is a higher faculty than Taste, it is ever, according to the usual frugality of nature, more limited in the sphere of its operations. It is not uncommon to meet with persons who have an excellent Taste in several of the polite arts, such as music, poetry, painting, and eloquence, all together: but, to find one who...
Page 107 - Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. Hear what Trismegistus says in praise of our sufficiency: "Of all the wonderful things, it surmounts all wonder, that man could find out the divine nature and make it.
Page 27 - Raphael, assist to combine the historical groups in the foreground. And so to end with* one who drew much of his inspiration from this very source — ' Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is mine own, my native land? Whose heart hath ne'er within him hurn'd, When home his footsteps he has turn'd From wandering in a foreign land ? ' We have been the more anxious to make out this resemblance between the smallest and the largest of human societies, between...
Page 218 - An insurrection rendered necessary by oppression, and warranted by a reasonable probability of a happy termination, is an act of public virtue, always environed with so much peril as to merit admiration.
Page 26 - Then for a beam of joy to light In memory's sad and wakeful eye, Or banish from the noon of night Her dreams of deeper agony, Shall Song its witching cadence roll ? Yea, even the tenderest air repeat, That breathed when soul was knit to soul, And heart to heart responsive beat ? What visions...
Page 100 - ... who rightly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own, but will love and improve himself above all other things, will refuse superfluous employments, and reject all unprofitable thoughts and propositions.