Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 páginas |
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... moral of all excellent ro- thy with the universal heart of man which mances . How mistaken are those miserable inspires real self - sacrifice ; but it is better even reasoners who object to them as giving " false to be moved by its ...
... moral of all excellent ro- thy with the universal heart of man which mances . How mistaken are those miserable inspires real self - sacrifice ; but it is better even reasoners who object to them as giving " false to be moved by its ...
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... moral distinctions . the transient joys of his heroes , in their After all , the general impression made on us checkered course - how full and overflowing by his works is virtuous . Clementina is to are their final raptures ! His Tom ...
... moral distinctions . the transient joys of his heroes , in their After all , the general impression made on us checkered course - how full and overflowing by his works is virtuous . Clementina is to are their final raptures ! His Tom ...
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... moral grandeur from the heroism of Fergus and his follower , but of poetic dignity from that power of ima- gination which renders for a time the rules of law sublime as well as fearful , and gives to all the formalities of a trial more ...
... moral grandeur from the heroism of Fergus and his follower , but of poetic dignity from that power of ima- gination which renders for a time the rules of law sublime as well as fearful , and gives to all the formalities of a trial more ...
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... moral degradation with the intellec- among the robbers . Perhaps this work is the tual majesty so that goodness appears tame , grandest ever constructed out of the simple ele- and crime only is honoured and exalted . God - ments of ...
... moral degradation with the intellec- among the robbers . Perhaps this work is the tual majesty so that goodness appears tame , grandest ever constructed out of the simple ele- and crime only is honoured and exalted . God - ments of ...
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... moral beauty - that imagination really puts forth its divine energies . We do not charge on Mr. Maturin that he is destitute of power to do this , or that he does not sometimes direct it to its purest uses . But his sensibility is so ...
... moral beauty - that imagination really puts forth its divine energies . We do not charge on Mr. Maturin that he is destitute of power to do this , or that he does not sometimes direct it to its purest uses . But his sensibility is so ...
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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...