Louis Fourteenth, and the Writers of His Age: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered (in French) to a Select Audience in New YorkJ. P. Jewett, 1855 - 413 páginas |
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... Genius of America , young , bold , elastic ; rather firm and nervous than graceful ; with an earnest , forward gaze , indicating the attrac- tive influence of those brilliant prospects of wealth and power which the future presents ...
... Genius of America , young , bold , elastic ; rather firm and nervous than graceful ; with an earnest , forward gaze , indicating the attrac- tive influence of those brilliant prospects of wealth and power which the future presents ...
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... genius saved the nation from threatening bankruptcy ; whose organizing spirit devel- oped the material resources and industrial power of France ; who gave her a share in the vast profits of that traffic from which England , Holland ...
... genius saved the nation from threatening bankruptcy ; whose organizing spirit devel- oped the material resources and industrial power of France ; who gave her a share in the vast profits of that traffic from which England , Holland ...
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... genius . The latter attacked the tyrannical priesthood and the royal despotism , even then exhibiting some of its unlovely features . This was one of the countless throes which preceded the great earthquake . At length the Reformation ...
... genius . The latter attacked the tyrannical priesthood and the royal despotism , even then exhibiting some of its unlovely features . This was one of the countless throes which preceded the great earthquake . At length the Reformation ...
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... genius of his country , not one is founded on a national event or character . All are either classical , scriptural , or at least foreign , in their themes . Not a specimen of lofty character ; not a hero , nor a martyr , is taken from ...
... genius of his country , not one is founded on a national event or character . All are either classical , scriptural , or at least foreign , in their themes . Not a specimen of lofty character ; not a hero , nor a martyr , is taken from ...
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... genius that produced its principal works . Yet it is not easy to revive the scenes and spirit of a bygone age . And this is particularly true of the period we are now to consider . It is not that historical docu- ments and memoirs are ...
... genius that produced its principal works . Yet it is not easy to revive the scenes and spirit of a bygone age . And this is particularly true of the period we are now to consider . It is not that historical docu- ments and memoirs are ...
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Página 268 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Página 374 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Página 257 - But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Página 257 - But by pursuing closely one argument, which is not cloyed with many turns, the French have gained more liberty for verse, in which they write ; they have leisure to dwell on a subject which deserves it ; and to represent the passions (which we have acknowledged to be the poet's work), without being hurried from one thing to another...
Página 255 - Romantic poetry, on the other hand, is the expression of the secret attraction to a chaos which lies concealed in the very bosom of the ordered...
Página 268 - To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
Página 255 - ... its fragmentary appearance, approaches more to the secret of the universe. For Conception can only comprise each object separately, but nothing in truth can ever exist separately and by itself; Feeling perceives all in all at one and the same time.
Página 61 - the great commandment on which hang all the law and the prophets'; they strike at the very heart of piety; they rob it of the spirit that giveth life; they hold that to love God is not necessary to salvation; and go so far as to maintain that 'this dispensation from loving God is the privilege which Jesus Christ has introduced into the world!
Página 254 - The ancient art and poetry rigorously separate things which are dissimilar; the romantic delights in indissoluble mixtures; all contrarieties: nature and art, poetry and prose, seriousness and mirth, recollection and anticipation, spirituality and sensuality, terrestrial and celestial, life and death, are by it blended together in the most intimate combination.
Página 398 - Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?