Essays on the Poets: And Other English WritersTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - 296 sider |
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... hand , where the motion of the feeling is by and through the ideas , where , ( as in religious or meditative poetry - Young's , for instance , or Cow- per's , ) the pathos creeps and kindles underneath the very tissues of the thinking ...
... hand , where the motion of the feeling is by and through the ideas , where , ( as in religious or meditative poetry - Young's , for instance , or Cow- per's , ) the pathos creeps and kindles underneath the very tissues of the thinking ...
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... hand , if the connection is slight , the injury is great : for we all complain heavily of entering a temple dedicated to new combinations of truth through a vestibule of falsehood . And the false- hood is double ; falsehood in the ...
... hand , if the connection is slight , the injury is great : for we all complain heavily of entering a temple dedicated to new combinations of truth through a vestibule of falsehood . And the false- hood is double ; falsehood in the ...
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... hand vibrated frenzy . ' But Mr. Gilfil lan is entirely in the wrong when he countenances the notion that harsh treatment had any concern in riveting the fanaticism of Shelley . On the contrary , he met . with an indulgence to the first ...
... hand vibrated frenzy . ' But Mr. Gilfil lan is entirely in the wrong when he countenances the notion that harsh treatment had any concern in riveting the fanaticism of Shelley . On the contrary , he met . with an indulgence to the first ...
Side 48
... the nation in a matter of so much peril , could not have acted otherwise than they did . They were not severe . The severity was extorted and imposed by 6 Shelley . But , on the other hand , 48 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY .
... the nation in a matter of so much peril , could not have acted otherwise than they did . They were not severe . The severity was extorted and imposed by 6 Shelley . But , on the other hand , 48 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY .
Side 49
... hand , in some palliation of Shelley's conduct , it ought to be noticed that he is unfairly placed , by the undistinguishing , on the manly station of an ordinary Oxford student . The under- graduates of Oxford and Cambridge are not ...
... hand , in some palliation of Shelley's conduct , it ought to be noticed that he is unfairly placed , by the undistinguishing , on the manly station of an ordinary Oxford student . The under- graduates of Oxford and Cambridge are not ...
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Side 151 - ... own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where every pulse and each separate influx is a step upwards, a step ascending as upon a Jacob's ladder from earth to mysterious altitudes above the earth. All the steps of knowledge, from first to last, carry you further on the same plane, but could never raise you one foot above your ancient level of earth; whereas the very first step in power is a flight, is an ascending movement into another element where earth is forgotten.
Side 151 - ... highest in man : for the Scriptures themselves never condescended to deal by suggestion or co-operation, with the mere discursive understanding : when speaking of man in his intellectual capacity, the Scriptures speak not of the understanding, but of