Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 páginas |
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... common day , " which mere vulgar experience in the course of the world diffuses . But , in truth , that radiance is not merely of the fancy , nor are its influences lost when it ceases immediately to shine on our path . It is holy and ...
... common day , " which mere vulgar experience in the course of the world diffuses . But , in truth , that radiance is not merely of the fancy , nor are its influences lost when it ceases immediately to shine on our path . It is holy and ...
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... common ways of this " bright and breathing world . " We travel on the high road of humanity , yet meet in it pleasanter companions , and catch more delicious snatches of refreshment , than ever we can hope_else- where to enjoy . The ...
... common ways of this " bright and breathing world . " We travel on the high road of humanity , yet meet in it pleasanter companions , and catch more delicious snatches of refreshment , than ever we can hope_else- where to enjoy . The ...
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... common , and of sorrows participated in childhood . The purely sentimental style in which the tales of Mackenzie are written , though deeply felt by the people , has seldom met with due | appreciation from the critics . It has its own ...
... common , and of sorrows participated in childhood . The purely sentimental style in which the tales of Mackenzie are written , though deeply felt by the people , has seldom met with due | appreciation from the critics . It has its own ...
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... common censure . But no things can be more opposite than the paradoxes of the inferior order of German sentimentalists and the works of a writer like Mackenzie . Real sentiment is the truest , the most genuine , and the most lasting ...
... common censure . But no things can be more opposite than the paradoxes of the inferior order of German sentimentalists and the works of a writer like Mackenzie . Real sentiment is the truest , the most genuine , and the most lasting ...
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... common day , " without destroying all har- mony in our perceptions , and bringing the whole into discredit with the imagination as well as the feelings . Fairy tales are among the most exquisite things in the world , and so are ...
... common day , " without destroying all har- mony in our perceptions , and bringing the whole into discredit with the imagination as well as the feelings . Fairy tales are among the most exquisite things in the world , and so are ...
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Página 155 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Página 55 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 56 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; » Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 55 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 155 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Página 12 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 155 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome.
Página 56 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Página 56 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 154 - Of depth immeasurable; anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage, Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat...