The National Review, Volumen3Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... passion for music , and his taste for social enjoyments . But she was also his sedulous instructress , and carefully studied every opportunity of forwarding his progress in knowledge and his advancement in the world . When she came home ...
... passion for music , and his taste for social enjoyments . But she was also his sedulous instructress , and carefully studied every opportunity of forwarding his progress in knowledge and his advancement in the world . When she came home ...
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... passion ; the refinement of which his admirers speak is the re- finement of a delicate organisation , never that of a pure spirit . His friend Atkinson's vindication of him , as handed down by Leigh Hunt , sounds ludicrous as applied to ...
... passion ; the refinement of which his admirers speak is the re- finement of a delicate organisation , never that of a pure spirit . His friend Atkinson's vindication of him , as handed down by Leigh Hunt , sounds ludicrous as applied to ...
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... passions that music appeared to him to express . His was precisely the nature formed to feel the full charm of music ; not perhaps to enter into its full beauties as an art , but to experience its full power over the emo- tions . He had ...
... passions that music appeared to him to express . His was precisely the nature formed to feel the full charm of music ; not perhaps to enter into its full beauties as an art , but to experience its full power over the emo- tions . He had ...
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... passion ; he never attempts more than to hang the garland of his fancy over the most threadbare conventionalities of the subject . And it is for the most part a disagreeable class of conventionalities ; you never get beyond " my friend ...
... passion ; he never attempts more than to hang the garland of his fancy over the most threadbare conventionalities of the subject . And it is for the most part a disagreeable class of conventionalities ; you never get beyond " my friend ...
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... passion , are sufficient for the next stage of development ; but as the mind advances , it asks for harmony throughout all the form and essence of a poem , and in the poet for an insight wide and deep into the concrete forms of exist ...
... passion , are sufficient for the next stage of development ; but as the mind advances , it asks for harmony throughout all the form and essence of a poem , and in the poet for an insight wide and deep into the concrete forms of exist ...
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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...