Essay on Language, and Other Essays and AddressesHoughton Mifflin,, 1889 - 400 páginas |
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... excited be- fore we are conscious of the cause . One line enchants us , and another , though it breathes not its spirit and is destitute of its intrinsic charm , imparts a pleasure like that we enjoy in the first hasty glance of a por ...
... excited be- fore we are conscious of the cause . One line enchants us , and another , though it breathes not its spirit and is destitute of its intrinsic charm , imparts a pleasure like that we enjoy in the first hasty glance of a por ...
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... excitement , and unite to it that which arises from the power of calling up ideals or perceptions , with all the vividness of reality yet divested of the modifying cir- cumstances of real life , we perceive that we have ad- vanced far ...
... excitement , and unite to it that which arises from the power of calling up ideals or perceptions , with all the vividness of reality yet divested of the modifying cir- cumstances of real life , we perceive that we have ad- vanced far ...
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... excited feelings are wrought to a state of incoherent energy , and he enjoys or suffers a poetic frenzy . The division or classification of language which we have suggested has its basis in the elements of mind . Memory is first ...
... excited feelings are wrought to a state of incoherent energy , and he enjoys or suffers a poetic frenzy . The division or classification of language which we have suggested has its basis in the elements of mind . Memory is first ...
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... excited . Of this we have a fine illustration in the expression , " All was still ; still as the breathless interval betwixt the flash and thunder . " ― To elicit these emotions in a happy manner requires a knowledge not only of the ...
... excited . Of this we have a fine illustration in the expression , " All was still ; still as the breathless interval betwixt the flash and thunder . " ― To elicit these emotions in a happy manner requires a knowledge not only of the ...
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... excitement , are probably indistinct , and their associations with the terms used to indicate them rather accidental than ... excited by poetic description obviates the necessity of being minute , and often makes precision tedious , yet ...
... excitement , are probably indistinct , and their associations with the terms used to indicate them rather accidental than ... excited by poetic description obviates the necessity of being minute , and often makes precision tedious , yet ...
Términos y frases comunes
abstraction action advance appear apply associations authority beautiful benevolence Bible Brown University cause Channing character common consciousness cultivation divine duty effect efforts elevated emotions energy ennobling error ethereal evil exalted excited exer exert existence expression faculties feelings finer feelings finite free agency give glowing happiness heart heaven hence higher hope human ical ideas imagination important improvement infallibility infinite influence inspiration intel intellectual intelligence interest Job Durfee knowledge labor language of ideality laws lence less lofty manifested mankind material means ment mental metaphysical mind minister of religion mode moral nature ness noble object observe perceive perceptions perfect perhaps philosophy physical poet poetic poetry portion present principles processes of ideality progress pure purity pursuits quires reasoning religion revelation Rhode Island Samuel Eddy sense sentiment society soul sphere spirit sublime supposed thought tion truth universal universal proposition vated views virtue words
Pasajes populares
Página 129 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 245 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which Warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold...
Página 367 - ... years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Página 244 - Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion.
Página 242 - Christians than that of man's immortality ; but it is not so generally understood, that the germs or principles of his whole future being are now wrapped up in his soul, as the rudiments of the future plant in the seed. As a necessary result of this constitution, the soul, possessed and moved by these mighty though infant energies, is perpetually stretching beyond what is present and visible, struggling against the bounds of its earthly prisonhouse, and seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen...
Página 14 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 246 - ... exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being.
Página 190 - I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Página 21 - HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, • Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress — Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed, yet tender traits, that streak The languor of the placid cheek...
Página 242 - We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It seems to us the divinest of all arts ; for it is the breathing or expression of that principle or sentiment, which is deepest and sublimest in human nature...