Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical RemarksJ.K, Porter, 1832 - 296 páginas |
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... deep thinkers and patient reasoners , who were proud of their nation , and who scorned to have their tongues tied , even by their conquerors . Taste , philosophy , divinity , politics , and eloquence ask for nothing more than can be ...
... deep thinkers and patient reasoners , who were proud of their nation , and who scorned to have their tongues tied , even by their conquerors . Taste , philosophy , divinity , politics , and eloquence ask for nothing more than can be ...
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... deep know- ledge of human nature in these productions of the imagination , who can resist the desire to become ac- quainted with their contents ? But this taste is sometimes found to degenerate to a cormorant appetite for the whole mass ...
... deep know- ledge of human nature in these productions of the imagination , who can resist the desire to become ac- quainted with their contents ? But this taste is sometimes found to degenerate to a cormorant appetite for the whole mass ...
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... deep of knowledge were broken up , and the floods of light and intelligence fell upon the children of men . This period is that of the invention , or rather of the use of printing . The indi- vidual who brought printing into England ...
... deep of knowledge were broken up , and the floods of light and intelligence fell upon the children of men . This period is that of the invention , or rather of the use of printing . The indi- vidual who brought printing into England ...
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... , for attempting to de- stroy the English language by Latinizing it . Many of the saws he suffers to drop from the mouth , of his fools , are so formed under the motley guise he gives them , as to cut deep upon the frivolities and 53.
... , for attempting to de- stroy the English language by Latinizing it . Many of the saws he suffers to drop from the mouth , of his fools , are so formed under the motley guise he gives them , as to cut deep upon the frivolities and 53.
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Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. them , as to cut deep upon the frivolities and vices of the age . If Shakspeare was the poet of nature , as he is always called , why should we not judge him as we do nature ? When we look abroad on nature , to ...
Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. them , as to cut deep upon the frivolities and vices of the age . If Shakspeare was the poet of nature , as he is always called , why should we not judge him as we do nature ? When we look abroad on nature , to ...
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Página 252 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 69 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Página 61 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
Página 169 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Página 64 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 156 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Página 52 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Página 253 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Página 69 - Music the fiercest grief can. charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm ; Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...
Página 101 - Thine, Freedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear ; Too blest indeed, were such without alloy, But foster'd even by Freedom ills annoy : That independence Britons prize too high, Keeps man from man, and breaks the social tie...