The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 139A. Constable, 1874 |
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... mind had not yet taken its form ; and for a considerable interval , the history of letters , and of their external representative , libraries , is almost a blank . The con- troversies about the history of learning and the diffusion of ...
... mind had not yet taken its form ; and for a considerable interval , the history of letters , and of their external representative , libraries , is almost a blank . The con- troversies about the history of learning and the diffusion of ...
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... minds the salient points of interest connected with her . To those who had the privilege of her personal acquaintance it hardly needs to say that her intellectual accom- plishments were considerable , her conversation fascinating , her ...
... minds the salient points of interest connected with her . To those who had the privilege of her personal acquaintance it hardly needs to say that her intellectual accom- plishments were considerable , her conversation fascinating , her ...
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... mind at once . The number might be doubled speedily . But in the literary associations of our present cen- tury , it so happens , the poet's daughter forms a somewhat con- spicuous object . Is this only because bards have been more ...
... mind at once . The number might be doubled speedily . But in the literary associations of our present cen- tury , it so happens , the poet's daughter forms a somewhat con- spicuous object . Is this only because bards have been more ...
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... mind , her daughter says : - ' I am but repeating her own remarks when I say that in matters of the intellect and imagination she owed most to Mr. Wordsworth . In his noble poetry she took an ever - increasing delight , and his ...
... mind , her daughter says : - ' I am but repeating her own remarks when I say that in matters of the intellect and imagination she owed most to Mr. Wordsworth . In his noble poetry she took an ever - increasing delight , and his ...
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... mind , till I renewed my acquaintance with her many years after . But I have always been glad that I did see her in her girlhood , because I then saw her beauty untouched by time , and it was a beauty which could not but remain in one's ...
... mind , till I renewed my acquaintance with her many years after . But I have always been glad that I did see her in her girlhood , because I then saw her beauty untouched by time , and it was a beauty which could not but remain in one's ...
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Страница 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Страница 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Страница 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Страница 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Страница 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Страница 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Страница 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Страница 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.