The National Review, Volumen3Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... imaginative insight , sufficient indicia of their truth or falsehood . From these and from his own experience , for the biographer does not occupy the most favourable position for the exercise of his art unless he has himself been ...
... imaginative insight , sufficient indicia of their truth or falsehood . From these and from his own experience , for the biographer does not occupy the most favourable position for the exercise of his art unless he has himself been ...
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... imagination to enjoy them . He , as usual , is passive ; but where there is obvious sentiment to rouse his feelings his admiration is at once engaged . " Went to the Brera : some fine pictures ; particularly one by Guercino , of Abraham ...
... imagination to enjoy them . He , as usual , is passive ; but where there is obvious sentiment to rouse his feelings his admiration is at once engaged . " Went to the Brera : some fine pictures ; particularly one by Guercino , of Abraham ...
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... imagination is awaken- ing , and the intellect and the feelings at once keenly alive and undisciplined and uninformed by realities , this sort of stimu- lant to the fancy seems delightful ; we devour it with absorbing interest , the ...
... imagination is awaken- ing , and the intellect and the feelings at once keenly alive and undisciplined and uninformed by realities , this sort of stimu- lant to the fancy seems delightful ; we devour it with absorbing interest , the ...
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... imagination which perhaps can replace them . He was a delightful companion , a devoted son , a tender husband ; he had a genial temper and a kindly nature ; but he was small . " I look upon Mooerr , " said Leigh Hunt's Spanish friend ...
... imagination which perhaps can replace them . He was a delightful companion , a devoted son , a tender husband ; he had a genial temper and a kindly nature ; but he was small . " I look upon Mooerr , " said Leigh Hunt's Spanish friend ...
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... imagination haunting him with ideal visions he must endow with the life of art ; he could and did manufacture verse in a patient , steady , and skilful man- ner , and in his own special walk with unparalleled success , for he had in his ...
... imagination haunting him with ideal visions he must endow with the life of art ; he could and did manufacture verse in a patient , steady , and skilful man- ner , and in his own special walk with unparalleled success , for he had in his ...
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Página 377 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
Página 376 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 50 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 360 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...
Página 370 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Página 369 - I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Página 377 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 370 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 50 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Página 241 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...