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... nature , until , at last , the author would jump up with , Enough of this , Gentle Reader ; perhaps it's time to go back to the story . " 66 But The thirteenth book of Tom Jones leaves the heroine in the greatest distress . The last ...
... nature , until , at last , the author would jump up with , Enough of this , Gentle Reader ; perhaps it's time to go back to the story . " 66 But The thirteenth book of Tom Jones leaves the heroine in the greatest distress . The last ...
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... nature ! What did he know about human nature if he thought anybody would read an auto - biography that was without vanity ? Vanity is one of the most lov- able of weaknesses . If in our contemporaries it sometimes troubles us , that is ...
... nature ! What did he know about human nature if he thought anybody would read an auto - biography that was without vanity ? Vanity is one of the most lov- able of weaknesses . If in our contemporaries it sometimes troubles us , that is ...
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... . It seems as if the writers were not sure that there was enough human nature to go around . They should study the good old story of Aboukir and Abousir . " There were in the city of Alexandria two men 30 THE GENTLE READER.
... . It seems as if the writers were not sure that there was enough human nature to go around . They should study the good old story of Aboukir and Abousir . " There were in the city of Alexandria two men 30 THE GENTLE READER.
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... nature and about human duty and destiny . It is the function of the poet not only to create for us an ideal world and to fill it with ideal creatures , but also to reveal to us the ideal element in the actual world . " I do not know ...
... nature and about human duty and destiny . It is the function of the poet not only to create for us an ideal world and to fill it with ideal creatures , but also to reveal to us the ideal element in the actual world . " I do not know ...
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... - figured in the light of thought . Familiar objects lose their sharp outlines and become symbols of universal realities . Likenesses , before unthought of , appear . Nature becomes a mirror of the 62 THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY.
... - figured in the light of thought . Familiar objects lose their sharp outlines and become symbols of universal realities . Likenesses , before unthought of , appear . Nature becomes a mirror of the 62 THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY.
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Page 212 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 48 - Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Page 48 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 204 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 312 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 207 - And four great zones of sculpture, set betwixt With many a mystic symbol, gird the hall: And in the lowest beasts are slaying men, And in the second men are slaying beasts, And on the third are warriors, perfect men, And on the fourth are men with growing wings...
Page 314 - Farewell happy fields 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. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 154 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 313 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 62 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.