Critical and Miscellaneous WritingsCarey and Hart, 1848 - 176 pages |
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... equal to Strap . Partridge is dry , and hard , compared with this poor barber - boy , with his generous overflowings of affection . Roderick Random , indeed , with its varied de- lineation of life , is almost a romance . Its hero is ...
... equal to Strap . Partridge is dry , and hard , compared with this poor barber - boy , with his generous overflowings of affection . Roderick Random , indeed , with its varied de- lineation of life , is almost a romance . Its hero is ...
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... equal , and can conceive . Julia de Roubigné , however , is , partly by the certainty that she must either on the whole , the most delightful of the au- become guilty or continue wretched . Nothing thor's works . There is , in this tale ...
... equal , and can conceive . Julia de Roubigné , however , is , partly by the certainty that she must either on the whole , the most delightful of the au- become guilty or continue wretched . Nothing thor's works . There is , in this tale ...
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... equal light on all - illuminating the vast hills of purple heath , the calm breast of the quiet water , and the rich masses of the grove - now gleaming with a sacred light on the distant towers of some old monastery , now softening the ...
... equal light on all - illuminating the vast hills of purple heath , the calm breast of the quiet water , and the rich masses of the grove - now gleaming with a sacred light on the distant towers of some old monastery , now softening the ...
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... Equal in terrific power , is the view given us of the last confession and death of that " awful woman " -her intense perception of her long past guilt , with her deadness to all else her yet quenchless hate to the object of her youthful ...
... Equal in terrific power , is the view given us of the last confession and death of that " awful woman " -her intense perception of her long past guilt , with her deadness to all else her yet quenchless hate to the object of her youthful ...
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... equal in the conceptions which dramatic power has been able to imbody . Its startling unexpected- ness , yet its perfect probability to the imagina- tion - the high tone and wild enthusiasm of character in the murderers - the ...
... equal in the conceptions which dramatic power has been able to imbody . Its startling unexpected- ness , yet its perfect probability to the imagina- tion - the high tone and wild enthusiasm of character in the murderers - the ...
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Page 52 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 50 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this *Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Page 51 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 52 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 51 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions, not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 50 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 150 - Of depth immeasurable: anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 53 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness; for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart...
Page 74 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Page 54 - There shall endure, — existence unexposed To the blind walk of mortal accident ; From diminution safe and weakening age ; While man grows old, and dwindles, and decays ; And countless generations of mankind Depart; and leave no vestige where they trod.