Critical and Miscellaneous WritingsCarey and Hart, 1848 - 176 pages |
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... true , not only of the divine enthusiasm of Flora Mac Ivor of the sweet heroism of Jeannie Deans - of the angelic tenderness and fortitude of Rebecca , but of the puritanic severities and awful zeal of Balfour of Burley , and the yet ...
... true , not only of the divine enthusiasm of Flora Mac Ivor of the sweet heroism of Jeannie Deans - of the angelic tenderness and fortitude of Rebecca , but of the puritanic severities and awful zeal of Balfour of Burley , and the yet ...
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... true poeti- cal genius - much of that which softens , re- fines , and elevates humanity in the works of this author - may be inferred from our remarks on his power of imbodying human character . The gleams of a soft and delicate fancy ...
... true poeti- cal genius - much of that which softens , re- fines , and elevates humanity in the works of this author - may be inferred from our remarks on his power of imbodying human character . The gleams of a soft and delicate fancy ...
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... True imagination is , indeed , the deep than the throng of images on his mind ; that eye of the profoundest wisdom . It is opposed he too often confounds us with unnumbered to reason , not in its results , but in its process ; snatches ...
... True imagination is , indeed , the deep than the throng of images on his mind ; that eye of the profoundest wisdom . It is opposed he too often confounds us with unnumbered to reason , not in its results , but in its process ; snatches ...
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... true to make us feel what they would be and lament what they are . Eva , Zaira , the manaic mother , and the group of Calvinists , have all a resemblance to nature - and sometimes to nature at its most passionate or its sweetest - but ...
... true to make us feel what they would be and lament what they are . Eva , Zaira , the manaic mother , and the group of Calvinists , have all a resemblance to nature - and sometimes to nature at its most passionate or its sweetest - but ...
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... true Venetians , the maritime affairs stick not on their hand ; the public may sink or swim . They will sit up all night to hear a Doctors ' Commons matri- monial cause ; and have the merits of the cause laid open to ' em , that they ...
... true Venetians , the maritime affairs stick not on their hand ; the public may sink or swim . They will sit up all night to hear a Doctors ' Commons matri- monial cause ; and have the merits of the cause laid open to ' em , that they ...
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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.