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... with their whole soul . Worldly advancement , or religion , are an Englishman's real interests : for politics , except in connexion with one of those two objects , and for Art , he keeps only 2 POEMS AND ROMANCES OF ALFRED DE VIGNY .
... with their whole soul . Worldly advancement , or religion , are an Englishman's real interests : for politics , except in connexion with one of those two objects , and for Art , he keeps only 2 POEMS AND ROMANCES OF ALFRED DE VIGNY .
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... interest . Where both politics and poetry , instead of being either a trade or a pastime , are taken so completely au sérieux , each will be more or less coloured by the other ; and that close relation between an author's politics and ...
... interest . Where both politics and poetry , instead of being either a trade or a pastime , are taken so completely au sérieux , each will be more or less coloured by the other ; and that close relation between an author's politics and ...
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... interest , will have a far larger range ; and he will generally be more admired than the other , by all those by whom he is not actually condemned . There is room in the world for poets of both these kinds ; and the greatest will always ...
... interest , will have a far larger range ; and he will generally be more admired than the other , by all those by whom he is not actually condemned . There is room in the world for poets of both these kinds ; and the greatest will always ...
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... interests fills me with an unknown trouble ; I must enter into this labyrinth , perhaps to perish ; but for Marie's sake- " And stifling his feelings , he takes a rapid leave , and gallops off for Tours . " The day was triste and the ...
... interests fills me with an unknown trouble ; I must enter into this labyrinth , perhaps to perish ; but for Marie's sake- " And stifling his feelings , he takes a rapid leave , and gallops off for Tours . " The day was triste and the ...
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... interest which he excites , and along with the disinterested attachment of his simple and upright friend De Thou , constitutes the romance of the book . The reader , having been already brought into the midst of the age by these opening ...
... interest which he excites , and along with the disinterested attachment of his simple and upright friend De Thou , constitutes the romance of the book . The reader , having been already brought into the midst of the age by these opening ...
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Page 268 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 42 - A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array 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...
Page 461 - The various systems that have been formed concerning the standard of right and wrong, may all be reduced to the principle of sympathy and antipathy.' One account may serve for all of them. They consist all of them...
Page 469 - Self-consciousness, that daemon of the men of genius of our time, from Wordsworth to Byron, from Goethe to Chateaubriand, and to which this age owes most both of its cheerful and its mournful wisdom, never was awakened in him.
Page 43 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 469 - Knowing so little of human feelings, he knew still less of the influences by which those feelings are formed: all the more subtle workings both of the mind upon itself, and of external things upon the mind, escaped him; and no one, probably, who, in a highly instructed age, ever attempted to give a rule to all human conduct, set out with a more limited conception either of the agencies by which human conduct is, or of those by which it should be, influenced.
Page 485 - ... he exhausted all the resources of ingenuity in devising means for riveting the yoke of public opinion closer and closer round the necks of all public functionaries, and excluding every possibility of the exercise of the slightest or most temporary influence either by a minority, or by the functionary's own notions of right.
Page 457 - ... laws and institutions are in great part not the product of intellect and virtue, but of modern corruption grafted upon ancient barbarism; if the hardiest innovation is no longer scouted because it is an innovation - establishments no longer considered sacred because they are establishments - it will be found that those who have accustomed the public mind to these ideas have learnt them in Bentham's school, and that the assault on ancient institutions has been, and is, carried on for the most...
Page 488 - Whether happiness be or be not the end to which morality should be referred — that it be referred to an end of some sort, and not left in the dominion of vague feeling or inexplicable internal conviction, that it...
Page 286 - I was dragged into the house of lords in such a manner, as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward, and was there left to defend the treaties almost alone.