Essays and Reviews, Том 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... sophisms used in palliation or defence of political and social abuses ; but he is too little of an idealist in politics to suppose that , because those abuses are unfounded in reason , they are necessarily and altogether perni- cious ...
... sophisms used in palliation or defence of political and social abuses ; but he is too little of an idealist in politics to suppose that , because those abuses are unfounded in reason , they are necessarily and altogether perni- cious ...
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... sophism is impenetrably encased - they seem almost native to his mind , and he to the " manor born . " There are whole pages in his writings which must be inter- preted according to the laws of epigram , instead of the proprieties of ...
... sophism is impenetrably encased - they seem almost native to his mind , and he to the " manor born . " There are whole pages in his writings which must be inter- preted according to the laws of epigram , instead of the proprieties of ...
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... sophisms . He expresses the voiceless folly and affectation of the ignorant and brainless by cunningly contrived phrases and apt imagery . He idealizes non- sense , pertness , and aspiring dulness . The movement of his wit is so swift ...
... sophisms . He expresses the voiceless folly and affectation of the ignorant and brainless by cunningly contrived phrases and apt imagery . He idealizes non- sense , pertness , and aspiring dulness . The movement of his wit is so swift ...
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... sophism , pranked out in the purple and fine linen of language , would at first fail to excite . We also object to his theory on another ground . It is the parent of much cant , which is growing into fashion among many of our own ...
... sophism , pranked out in the purple and fine linen of language , would at first fail to excite . We also object to his theory on another ground . It is the parent of much cant , which is growing into fashion among many of our own ...
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... sophism , or tempts him , by its winning looks , to slide into an episode . A critic wishes to analyze a book ; but instead of analysis he wanders slyly into eulogy or denunciation ; for certain words , which sprang up , like flowers or ...
... sophism , or tempts him , by its winning looks , to slide into an episode . A critic wishes to analyze a book ; but instead of analysis he wanders slyly into eulogy or denunciation ; for certain words , which sprang up , like flowers or ...
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Страница 346 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have...
Страница 252 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Страница 262 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Страница 417 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Страница 259 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Страница 253 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Страница 332 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Страница 345 - Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Страница 346 - Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Страница 62 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.