Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57W. Blackwood., 1845 - England |
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... less lost in metaphysical or philosophical abstractions . Homer , though the father of poets , was essen- tially ... less dramatic - it has less incident and action . Great part of the poem is but an abstract theo- logical debate between ...
... less lost in metaphysical or philosophical abstractions . Homer , though the father of poets , was essen- tially ... less dramatic - it has less incident and action . Great part of the poem is but an abstract theo- logical debate between ...
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... less original genius than his im- mortal master , had more taste and much greater delicacy of pencil ; his conceptions , less extensive and varied , are more perfect ; his finishing is al- ways exquisite . Unity of emotion was his great ...
... less original genius than his im- mortal master , had more taste and much greater delicacy of pencil ; his conceptions , less extensive and varied , are more perfect ; his finishing is al- ways exquisite . Unity of emotion was his great ...
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... less known than the Montenegrians , and the name even of their country is seldom found on maps . * Surround- ed by great empires , they have always preserved the independence of their rugged mountains , and have even suc- ceeded in ...
... less known than the Montenegrians , and the name even of their country is seldom found on maps . * Surround- ed by great empires , they have always preserved the independence of their rugged mountains , and have even suc- ceeded in ...
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... less than my trusty attendant Petrarca . The style is not , strictly speaking , imposing . Perhaps this arose from suggestions of economy , or possibly from the mind of the archi- tect being at that moment unprepared with any other ...
... less than my trusty attendant Petrarca . The style is not , strictly speaking , imposing . Perhaps this arose from suggestions of economy , or possibly from the mind of the archi- tect being at that moment unprepared with any other ...
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... Less- andro . The cannonade , which we had heard during the earlier part of the day , had long ceased , and all seemed quiet . It was still twilight , but the place to which our people had deter- mined on going , lay beyond the foot of ...
... Less- andro . The cannonade , which we had heard during the earlier part of the day , had long ceased , and all seemed quiet . It was still twilight , but the place to which our people had deter- mined on going , lay beyond the foot of ...
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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.