Essays and Reviews, Том 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... thoughts right into every brain . Indeed , a person who is utterly insensible to the witchery of Macaulay's diction ... Thought is conveyed with equal directness and clearness . Knowl- edge , and important principles generalized from ...
... thoughts right into every brain . Indeed , a person who is utterly insensible to the witchery of Macaulay's diction ... Thought is conveyed with equal directness and clearness . Knowl- edge , and important principles generalized from ...
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... thought , seem equally to be the element in which the mind of the author moves . In convicting Mr. Croker of ignorance in unim- portant dates , in giving a philosophical view of the progress of society , in analyzing the mental ...
... thought , seem equally to be the element in which the mind of the author moves . In convicting Mr. Croker of ignorance in unim- portant dates , in giving a philosophical view of the progress of society , in analyzing the mental ...
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... thought , and so large and heavy a load of information . His rapidity of manner , at periods falling to flippancy and pertness , as well as rising to vivid and impassioned elo- quence , is calculated to deceive many into the belief that ...
... thought , and so large and heavy a load of information . His rapidity of manner , at periods falling to flippancy and pertness , as well as rising to vivid and impassioned elo- quence , is calculated to deceive many into the belief that ...
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... thought , in connection with so rich and va- ried an amount of knowledge . As a critic of poetry and general literature , Macaulay manifests considerable depth of feeling ; a fine sense of the beautiful ; a quick sensibility ; acuteness ...
... thought , in connection with so rich and va- ried an amount of knowledge . As a critic of poetry and general literature , Macaulay manifests considerable depth of feeling ; a fine sense of the beautiful ; a quick sensibility ; acuteness ...
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... thought and knowledge , the full strength of his passions , and the utmost splendor of his imagina- tion , are ever ... thought . His intellectual eye pierces instantly beneath the shows of things to the things themselves , and seems ...
... thought and knowledge , the full strength of his passions , and the utmost splendor of his imagina- tion , are ever ... thought . His intellectual eye pierces instantly beneath the shows of things to the things themselves , and seems ...
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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.