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... virtue , just as Mr. Pecksniff was pleased with the reflection that while he was eating his dinner , he was at the same time obeying a law of the Universe . But the rub comes when the judgment of the critic disagrees with ours . We ...
... virtue , just as Mr. Pecksniff was pleased with the reflection that while he was eating his dinner , he was at the same time obeying a law of the Universe . But the rub comes when the judgment of the critic disagrees with ours . We ...
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... virtue . They are tales to be told to Posterity . In regard to the historical drama that unfolds there is a pleasant ambiguity . Which is it that sees behind the scenes , -the writer or the present- day reader ? The reader representing ...
... virtue . They are tales to be told to Posterity . In regard to the historical drama that unfolds there is a pleasant ambiguity . Which is it that sees behind the scenes , -the writer or the present- day reader ? The reader representing ...
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... , but your easily besetting virtues as well . You must not be industrious , or argumentative , or conscientious , or strenuous . I do not mean that you must be a person of unlimited leisure and without THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY 45.
... , but your easily besetting virtues as well . You must not be industrious , or argumentative , or conscientious , or strenuous . I do not mean that you must be a person of unlimited leisure and without THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY 45.
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... virtues are not chronic , but sporadic . These virtues grow up , one knows not how , without visible means of support in the general character , and in defiance of moral science ; and yet it is a real pleasure to see them . There are ...
... virtues are not chronic , but sporadic . These virtues grow up , one knows not how , without visible means of support in the general character , and in defiance of moral science ; and yet it is a real pleasure to see them . There are ...
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... virtue is to interest themselves in the other half . I therefore venture to call attention to a book that has pleased me , though my delight in it may at once class me with the " submerged tenth " of the reading public . It is " The ...
... virtue is to interest themselves in the other half . I therefore venture to call attention to a book that has pleased me , though my delight in it may at once class me with the " submerged tenth " of the reading public . It is " The ...
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Page 312 - 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 46 - Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Page 46 - 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 202 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 310 - 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 205 - 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 311 - 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 313 - O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense ! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good...
Page 137 - All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt : We called the chess-board white, - we call it black. 'Well...
Page 60 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.