Essays on the Poets: And Other English WritersTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - 296 sider |
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Side 13
... interest for human nature . But what cares a young lady , dreaming of lovers kneeling at her feet , for the agitations of a mother forced into resigning her child ? or of a shepherd at eighty parting for ever amongst mountain solitudes ...
... interest for human nature . But what cares a young lady , dreaming of lovers kneeling at her feet , for the agitations of a mother forced into resigning her child ? or of a shepherd at eighty parting for ever amongst mountain solitudes ...
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... interest . Certainly not : though in some degree by a reaction from his character depends the respectability of Margaret's grief . And it is impossible to turn away from his case entirely , because from the act of the enlistment is ...
... interest . Certainly not : though in some degree by a reaction from his character depends the respectability of Margaret's grief . And it is impossible to turn away from his case entirely , because from the act of the enlistment is ...
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... interest the reader ; and reversely , any successful treatment through argu- ment that could interest the philosophic reader , would not , under the circumstances , seem a plausible restora- tion for the case . • What is it that has ...
... interest the reader ; and reversely , any successful treatment through argu- ment that could interest the philosophic reader , would not , under the circumstances , seem a plausible restora- tion for the case . • What is it that has ...
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... interest of human nature is treated , such as the posi- tion of man in this world , his duties , his difficulties , many parts become necessary as transitional or con- necting links , which , per se , are not attractive , nor can by any ...
... interest of human nature is treated , such as the posi- tion of man in this world , his duties , his difficulties , many parts become necessary as transitional or con- necting links , which , per se , are not attractive , nor can by any ...
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... immediately you bring it within the verge of a human interest ; or of some old familiar planet , that its satellites suffer pe- 6 6 riodical eclipses , and immediately you bring it within the 28 ON WORDSWORTH'S POETRY .
... immediately you bring it within the verge of a human interest ; or of some old familiar planet , that its satellites suffer pe- 6 6 riodical eclipses , and immediately you bring it within the 28 ON WORDSWORTH'S POETRY .
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Side 62 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Side 180 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Side 53 - 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.
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Side 42 - O almighty one, I tremble and obey ! " O Spirit ! centuries have set their seal On this heart of many wounds, and loaded brain, Since the Incarnate came : humbly he came, Veiling his horrible Godhead in the shape Of man, scorned by the world, his name unheard, Save by the rabble of his native town, Even as a parish demagogue.
Side 53 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.
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