The Works of James Russell LowellHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1890 |
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... look upon language only as anatomists of its structure , or who regard it as only a means of conveying abstract truth from mind to mind , as if it were so many algebraic formulæ , are apt to overlook the fact that its being alive is all ...
... look upon language only as anatomists of its structure , or who regard it as only a means of conveying abstract truth from mind to mind , as if it were so many algebraic formulæ , are apt to overlook the fact that its being alive is all ...
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... of ex- pression is subsidiary , and goes only a little way toward the making of a great poet . Imagination , where it is truly creative , is a faculty , and not a quality ; it looks before and after ; it SHAKESPEARE ONCE MORE 31.
... of ex- pression is subsidiary , and goes only a little way toward the making of a great poet . Imagination , where it is truly creative , is a faculty , and not a quality ; it looks before and after ; it SHAKESPEARE ONCE MORE 31.
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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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... look over the edge of a ravine that makes but a wrinkle in its flank . Shakespeare has been sometimes taxed with the barbarism of profuseness and exaggeration . But this is to measure him by a Sophoclean scale . The simplicity of the ...
... look over the edge of a ravine that makes but a wrinkle in its flank . Shakespeare has been sometimes taxed with the barbarism of profuseness and exaggeration . But this is to measure him by a Sophoclean scale . The simplicity of the ...
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... looks forward , like revenge or lust or greed , goes right to its end , and is straightforward in its expression ; but a tragic passion , which is in its nature unavailing , like disappointment , regret of the inevitable , or remorse ...
... looks forward , like revenge or lust or greed , goes right to its end , and is straightforward in its expression ; but a tragic passion , which is in its nature unavailing , like disappointment , regret of the inevitable , or remorse ...
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Сторінка 76 - 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 43 - 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 268 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And...
Сторінка 299 - 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 119 - 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 104 - 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 299 - 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 122 - Nature has been to trim up the vegetable beaux; observe how sparkish a periwig adorns the head of a beech, and what a fine doublet of white satin is worn by the birch.
Сторінка 139 - Stretch'd on their decks, like weary oxen lie : Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more.
Сторінка 41 - 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...