Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 - English essays |
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... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name ... thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which almost amounts to a ...
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name ... thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which almost amounts to a ...
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... things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the characters , as in a good play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet , as in a good ode . The ...
... things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the characters , as in a good play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet , as in a good ode . The ...
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... thing : and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not its ob- jects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner ...
... thing : and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not its ob- jects . They are the materials which he is to dispose in such a manner ...
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... things do not justify resistance , the Revolution was treason : if they do , the Great Rebellion was laudable . But , it is said , why not adopt milder measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many reforms , and re- nounced ...
... things do not justify resistance , the Revolution was treason : if they do , the Great Rebellion was laudable . But , it is said , why not adopt milder measures ? Why , after the King had consented to so many reforms , and re- nounced ...
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... things , we are at a loss to conceive how the same persons who , on the fifth of November , thank God for wonderfully conducting his servant King William , and for making all opposition fall before him until he became our King and ...
... things , we are at a loss to conceive how the same persons who , on the fifth of November , thank God for wonderfully conducting his servant King William , and for making all opposition fall before him until he became our King and ...
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Page 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Page 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Page 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Page 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Page 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Page 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Page 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Page 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Page 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...