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afforded Anglo-Saxon artistic beauty BERNARD BARTON Calaynos character characteristic Charles Lamb charm chiefly Christopher North classic criticism daguerreotype drama earnest effect elements eloquence English epicurean essential excite experience expression fact familiar fancy Federigo Borromeo feeling fiction genial genius genuine gifted give grace Hazlitt heart Hence human Humboldt idea illustrate imagination impressive individual inspired instinct intellectual intelligent interest Italian Italy Joanna Baillie knowledge language less letters literary literature Madame de Sevigné Madame de Staël ment mental Metastasio mind misanthropy modern Molière moral nature ness noble novel observation opinion orator oratory original passion pathy peculiar philosophy philosophy of language poem poet poetic poetry political popular principles Promessi Sposi racter real genius realize recognise refined reform remarkable render romance scenes scholar sense sentiment Shakspeare social society soul spirit style sublime sympathy taste thought tical tion tone traits truth ture utterance vivid words writing zest
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Page 190 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 190 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 190 - Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees; all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 174 - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Page 276 - The time is out of joint : — 0 cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!
Page 150 - What danger's half so great as thy revolt? Thou art a faithless sister, else thou know'st Malice, or any treachery beside, Would stoop to my bent brows: why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.
Page 151 - Let us now behold A human soul made visible in life; And more refulgent in a senseless paper Than in the sensual complement of kings.
Page 155 - Tis so much the more noble. Thi. 'Tis full of fearful shadows. Ord. So is sleep, sir, Or any thing that's merely ours and mortal ; We were begotten gods else : but those fears, Feeling but once the fires of nobler thoughts, Fly, like the shapes of clouds we form, to nothing.
Page 50 - The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Page 268 - Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.