Essay on Language, and Other Essays and AddressesHoughton Mifflin,, 1889 - 400 páginas |
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... regard poetry as properly occupying the first place in point of time , as well as of interest . Various at- tempts have been made to define this form of language . Of these , the notice of one of the most prominent will be sufficient ...
... regard poetry as properly occupying the first place in point of time , as well as of interest . Various at- tempts have been made to define this form of language . Of these , the notice of one of the most prominent will be sufficient ...
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... regard it as worthy a place in a higher sphere , and be willing to admit it to their most entrancing reveries of elysian bliss . Does not this view lend a delightful confirmation to our hypothesis ? But the argument derives yet ...
... regard it as worthy a place in a higher sphere , and be willing to admit it to their most entrancing reveries of elysian bliss . Does not this view lend a delightful confirmation to our hypothesis ? But the argument derives yet ...
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... regard it as a ray of light gilding the closing scenes of life , and dimly revealing a connection with that future , where we delight to group all that ideality pictures as lovely or ennobling , and where we expect to realize those ...
... regard it as a ray of light gilding the closing scenes of life , and dimly revealing a connection with that future , where we delight to group all that ideality pictures as lovely or ennobling , and where we expect to realize those ...
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... regard to things temporal , bright anticipations do not make us less happy ; and if they sometimes induce a restless , fever- ish anxiety for their attainment , it probably arises from an impression that the season of their enjoyment is ...
... regard to things temporal , bright anticipations do not make us less happy ; and if they sometimes induce a restless , fever- ish anxiety for their attainment , it probably arises from an impression that the season of their enjoyment is ...
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... regard the deficiencies alluded to not as a fault of theirs , or of the means which they employ , but as necessarily connected with all subjects which admit of no limitation . Morality and religion , the relations of man with his fellow ...
... regard the deficiencies alluded to not as a fault of theirs , or of the means which they employ , but as necessarily connected with all subjects which admit of no limitation . Morality and religion , the relations of man with his fellow ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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...