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... feels his impotence and littleness amid the processes of nature , he periodically reasserts his dignity , his sense that he is more than a trivial fact amid the overwhelming facts of the universe . The individualism of the Romantic ...
... feels his impotence and littleness amid the processes of nature , he periodically reasserts his dignity , his sense that he is more than a trivial fact amid the overwhelming facts of the universe . The individualism of the Romantic ...
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... feels , is not essentially the product of his age but one who blends characteristics traditionally opposed . These , for lack of better terms , we call Classi- cal and Romantic . It would be juster to say that Landor resembles Goethe ...
... feels , is not essentially the product of his age but one who blends characteristics traditionally opposed . These , for lack of better terms , we call Classi- cal and Romantic . It would be juster to say that Landor resembles Goethe ...
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... Feeling of Immortality In Youth . 58 On The Fear of Death . 74 CHARLES LAMB 87 Shire .. Witches , and Other Night - Fears . Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago ... 103 Blakesmoor In H- The South - Sea House . Old China . Mrs ...
... Feeling of Immortality In Youth . 58 On The Fear of Death . 74 CHARLES LAMB 87 Shire .. Witches , and Other Night - Fears . Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago ... 103 Blakesmoor In H- The South - Sea House . Old China . Mrs ...
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... feeling he wants to convey , and at last not hit upon that particular and only one which may be said to be identical with the exact impression in his mind . This would seem to show that Mr. Cobbett is hardly right in saying that the ...
... feeling he wants to convey , and at last not hit upon that particular and only one which may be said to be identical with the exact impression in his mind . This would seem to show that Mr. Cobbett is hardly right in saying that the ...
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... feeling , an intuition , deep and lively , of his subject , that carries off any quaintness or awkwardness arising from an antiquated style and dress . The matter is completely his own , though the manner is assumed . Perhaps his ideas ...
... feeling , an intuition , deep and lively , of his subject , that carries off any quaintness or awkwardness arising from an antiquated style and dress . The matter is completely his own , though the manner is assumed . Perhaps his ideas ...
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Page 15 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such; I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Page 110 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 292 - ... by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Page 18 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Page 137 - Bo-bo was in utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labor of an hour or two at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Page 123 - Do you remember how we eyed it for weeks before we could make up our minds to the purchase, and had not come to a determination till it was near ten o'clock of the Saturday night, when you set off from Islington, fearing you should be too late — and when the old bookseller with some grumbling opened his shop, and by the twinkling taper (for he was setting...
Page 13 - For either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Page 87 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 125 - It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at, that makes what I call a treat — when two people living together, as we have done, now and then indulge themselves in a cheap luxury, which both like, while each...
Page 112 - ... door-keepers — directors seated in form on solemn days (to proclaim a dead dividend), at long worm-eaten tables, that have been mahogany, with tarnished gilt-leather coverings, supporting massy silver inkstands long since dry; — the oaken wainscots hung with pictures of deceased governors and sub-governors, of Queen Anne, and the two first monarchs of the Brunswick dynasty; — huge charts, which subsequent discoveries have antiquated; — dusty maps of Mexico, dim as dreams, — and soundings...