The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary essaysHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1890 |
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... gives it poetic value . We do not mean what is technically called a living language , the contrivance , hollow as a speaking - trumpet , by which breathing and moving bipeds , even now , sailing o'er life's solemn main , are enabled to ...
... gives it poetic value . We do not mean what is technically called a living language , the contrivance , hollow as a speaking - trumpet , by which breathing and moving bipeds , even now , sailing o'er life's solemn main , are enabled to ...
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... give up Milton's Virgilian " fulmined over Greece , " where the verb in Eng- lish conveys at once the idea of flash and reverber- ation , but avoids that of riving and shattering . In the experiments made for casting the great bell for ...
... give up Milton's Virgilian " fulmined over Greece , " where the verb in Eng- lish conveys at once the idea of flash and reverber- ation , but avoids that of riving and shattering . In the experiments made for casting the great bell for ...
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... gives unity of design and balanced gravita- tion of parts . And yet it is only this higher form of it which can unimpeachably assure to any work the dignity and permanence of a classic ; for it results in that exquisite something called ...
... gives unity of design and balanced gravita- tion of parts . And yet it is only this higher form of it which can unimpeachably assure to any work the dignity and permanence of a classic ; for it results in that exquisite something called ...
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... give the rarer delight of perfection as a whole , that it belongs to art . Then it is truly ideal , the forma mentis æterna , not as a passive mould into which the thought is poured , but as the conceptive energy which finds all ...
... give the rarer delight of perfection as a whole , that it belongs to art . Then it is truly ideal , the forma mentis æterna , not as a passive mould into which the thought is poured , but as the conceptive energy which finds all ...
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James Russell Lowell. a quality ; it looks before and after ; it gives the form that makes all the parts work together har- moniously toward a given end ; its seat is in the higher reason , and it is efficient only as a servant of the ...
James Russell Lowell. a quality ; it looks before and after ; it gives the form that makes all the parts work together har- moniously toward a given end ; its seat is in the higher reason , and it is efficient only as a servant of the ...
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Сторінка 45 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 109 - The lonely mountains o'er and the resounding shore a voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; from haunted spring and dale edged with poplar pale the parting Genius is with sighing sent; with flower-inwoven tresses torn the nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Сторінка 78 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Сторінка 300 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Сторінка 121 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Сторінка 106 - Oxford to him a dearer name shall be, Than his own mother university. Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age.
Сторінка 300 - In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring...
Сторінка 43 - When proud-pied April dressed in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything', That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the...
Сторінка 171 - Thou hast what's left of me; For I am now so sunk from what I was, Thou find'st me at my lowest water-mark. The rivers that ran in, and raised my fortunes, Are all dried up, or take another course: What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.
Сторінка 74 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.