Blackwood's Magazine, 57. köideW. Blackwood., 1845 |
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... character , of institutions , of religion , of age , of the world , are forgotten in the common worship of his ... characters of the Iliad , and what would remain ? Petrarch spent his best years in restoring his verses . Tasso portrayed ...
... character , of institutions , of religion , of age , of the world , are forgotten in the common worship of his ... characters of the Iliad , and what would remain ? Petrarch spent his best years in restoring his verses . Tasso portrayed ...
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... character ; but he is so , not by con- veying the inward feeling , but by painting with matchless fidelity its external symptoms , or putting into the mouths of his characters the pre- cise words they would have used in similar ...
... character ; but he is so , not by con- veying the inward feeling , but by painting with matchless fidelity its external symptoms , or putting into the mouths of his characters the pre- cise words they would have used in similar ...
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... character and event was the great and evident object of the Grecian bard ; and there his powers may almost be pronounced unrivalled . He never tells you , unless it is some- times to be inferred from an epithet , what the man's character ...
... character and event was the great and evident object of the Grecian bard ; and there his powers may almost be pronounced unrivalled . He never tells you , unless it is some- times to be inferred from an epithet , what the man's character ...
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... character , wanting in the Spanish novelist . Sir Walter Scott more nearly resembles Homer than any poet who has sung since the siege of Troy . Not that he has produced any poem which will for a moment bear a comparison with the Iliad ...
... character , wanting in the Spanish novelist . Sir Walter Scott more nearly resembles Homer than any poet who has sung since the siege of Troy . Not that he has produced any poem which will for a moment bear a comparison with the Iliad ...
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... appeared , paints the dismal character of the poem , and yet min- gled with the sense of divine love and justice with which the author was penetrated . Inferno , c . iii . Dante had much more 10 [ Jan. Homer , Dante , and Michael Angelo .
... appeared , paints the dismal character of the poem , and yet min- gled with the sense of divine love and justice with which the author was penetrated . Inferno , c . iii . Dante had much more 10 [ Jan. Homer , Dante , and Michael Angelo .
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Page 395 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 376 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 130 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 392 - First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Page 392 - Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Page 153 - What verse can do he has perform'd in this, Which he presumes the most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at...
Page 632 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 128 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 488 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 397 - Some beauties yet no Precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. ( Music resembles Poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. ) '45 If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky Licence answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule.