Studies, Stories and MemoirsTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 408 pages |
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Page 275 - What if a shining beam of noon Should in its fountain stay, Because its feeble light alone Cannot create a day ? Doth not each raindrop help to form The cool refreshing shower ? And every ray of light to warm And beautify the flower
Page 342 - When I recall some of our walks under the pines of the Villa Borghese, I am almost tempted to dream that I had once listened to Plato in the groves of the Academy. It was there he taught me this golden rule, ' never to judge of a work of art by its defects;'—a
Page 341 - city ;' but I never could think of it as such while with him; for—meet him when or where I would—the fountain of his mind was never dry; but, like the far-reaching aqueducts that once supplied this mistress of the world, its living streams seemed especially to flow for every classic ruin over which we wandered.
Page 36 - I do not commend a society where there is an agreement that what would not otherwise be fair shall be fair; but I maintain that an individual of any society who practises what is allowed, is not dishonest.
Page 36 - What proportion does climate bear to the complex system of human life ? " I shiver while I answer, " A good deal, my dear Doctor, to some individuals, and yet more to whole races of men." He says afterwards,
Page 77 - to mingle with the great soul of nature, to be A voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird; To be a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light. And so in the silence and the loneliness of the night, as those sounds fell deliberately one by one, they seemed to fill the whole air around me, to
Page 275 - WHAT if the little rain should say— " So small a drop as I Can ne'er refresh the thirsty plain, I'll tarry in the sky ? ' ' What if a shining beam of noon Should in its fountain stay, Because its feeble light alone Cannot create a day ? Doth not each raindrop help to form The cool refreshing shower ? And every ray of light to warm And beautify the flower
Page 67 - literary factions dispute where no dispute ought to exist. Coleridge says that " Schiller is a thousand times more hearty than Goethe, and that Goethe does not, nor ever will, command the common mind of the people as Schiller does." I belieVe it to be true. The reason is, that Schiller has with him generally the women and the young men,
Page 391 - on the word we,—" we fail!" Lastly, she fixed on what must appear to all the true reading, and consistent with the fatalism of the character,— " We fail."—with the simple period, modulating her voice to a deep, low, resolute tone, as if she had said,—" If we fail, why then we fail, and all is over." In the same manner Adelaide Kemble varied
Page 342 - as wise as benevolent;—and one which, while it has spared me much pain, has widened my sphere of pleasure." Notwithstanding his sensitive taste, Allston remained to the end of his life " a wideliker," to borrow his own expression. He returned to America in 1809, and in