Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 páginas |
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... passion carried bigotries ; his love of enjoyment does not in itself a justification for its most fearful ex- exclude the ascetic from his respect , nor does cesses . He inspired them with a feeling of his fondness for hereditary rights ...
... passion carried bigotries ; his love of enjoyment does not in itself a justification for its most fearful ex- exclude the ascetic from his respect , nor does cesses . He inspired them with a feeling of his fondness for hereditary rights ...
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... passion , fairies and ghosts can scarcely be " simple products of the 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 ...
... passion , fairies and ghosts can scarcely be " simple products of the 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 ...
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... passion , but because they are , for the most part , confined to the development of single characters ; while in this there is the opposition and death grapple of two beings , each endowed with poignant sensibilities and quenchless ...
... passion , but because they are , for the most part , confined to the development of single characters ; while in this there is the opposition and death grapple of two beings , each endowed with poignant sensibilities and quenchless ...
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... passion , or to show the grandeurs of humanity in that majestic repose which is at once an anticipa- tion and a proof of its eternal destiny ? Is transitory vice - the mere accident of the spe- cies and those vices too which are the ...
... passion , or to show the grandeurs of humanity in that majestic repose which is at once an anticipa- tion and a proof of its eternal destiny ? Is transitory vice - the mere accident of the spe- cies and those vices too which are the ...
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... passion , and lofty imagi- nation , had he not been seduced by the admi- ration unhappily lavished on Lord Byron's writings . The feverish strength , the singular blending of good and evil , and the spirit of moral paradox , displayed ...
... passion , and lofty imagi- nation , had he not been seduced by the admi- ration unhappily lavished on Lord Byron's writings . The feverish strength , the singular blending of good and evil , and the spirit of moral paradox , displayed ...
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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...