Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysPhillips, Sampson,, 1855 - 368 หน้า |
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... kind too , of that light matter which the French call pleasantry ; but little or nothing that deserves the name of humour . In the present age , however , there is Goethe , with a rich true vein ; and this sublimated , as it were , to ...
... kind too , of that light matter which the French call pleasantry ; but little or nothing that deserves the name of humour . In the present age , however , there is Goethe , with a rich true vein ; and this sublimated , as it were , to ...
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... kind and elevation of acquaintance ? Are they found earth is round him , and the everlasting heaven to have any perceptible relation either with the is over him , the world has little more that it one or the other ? We imagine not ...
... kind and elevation of acquaintance ? Are they found earth is round him , and the everlasting heaven to have any perceptible relation either with the is over him , the world has little more that it one or the other ? We imagine not ...
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... kind , we might refer to Goethe's criticism of Hamlet in his Wilhelm Meister . This truly is what may be called the poetry of criticism ; for it is in some sort also a creative art ; aim- ing , at least , to reproduce under a different ...
... kind , we might refer to Goethe's criticism of Hamlet in his Wilhelm Meister . This truly is what may be called the poetry of criticism ; for it is in some sort also a creative art ; aim- ing , at least , to reproduce under a different ...
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... kind in Europe ; the wildest , can live in such wise ! But he who , in his the gloomiest , and it may be hoped , the last . humility , observes where all this issues , who For what good is it to " whine , put finger i ' the sees how ...
... kind in Europe ; the wildest , can live in such wise ! But he who , in his the gloomiest , and it may be hoped , the last . humility , observes where all this issues , who For what good is it to " whine , put finger i ' the sees how ...
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... kind and warm a among us ; " a soul like an Æolian harp , in soul ; so full of inborn riches , of love to all whose strings the vulgar wind , as it passed living and lifeless things ! How his heart through them , changed itself into ...
... kind and warm a among us ; " a soul like an Æolian harp , in soul ; so full of inborn riches , of love to all whose strings the vulgar wind , as it passed living and lifeless things ! How his heart through them , changed itself into ...
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already altogether appears Atheism beauty become Burns called century cern character clear Corn-Law critics dark death deep Denis Diderot Diderot divine earnest Earth Encyclopédie endeavour existence eyes fair father Faust feeling Franz Horn FRASER'S MAGAZINE Friedrich Schlegel genius German German Literature gifts Goethe Goethe's hand heart Heldenbuch Helena Heyne highest History honour hope humour infinite intellectual James Boswell Johnson King labour less lies light literary Literature living look Ludwig Tieck man's matter means ment Mephistopheles mind moral nature ness never Nibelungen noble Novalis nowise once perhaps Philosopher Poem Poet poetic Poetry poor racter readers reckon Religion Richter Samuel Johnson Schiller seems sense Shakspeare singular sort soul speak spirit stand strange thee things thou thought tion true truth ture universal virtue Voltaire whole wise wonderful words worth writing
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หน้า 330 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
หน้า 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
หน้า 67 - Audacious ; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand' fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft...
หน้า 105 - A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
หน้า 108 - Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty.
หน้า 107 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a halfforgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of
หน้า 328 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
หน้า 335 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleet-ditch.
หน้า 97 - ... a soul like an ^Eolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody." And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing...
หน้า 107 - I may truly say Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786 — 7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people ; and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner,...