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... feels , what he deems it good for people to know , and does not think of the categories . The combination of the elements just spoken of the material , the personality , the point of view , the animus , the training , etc. , of the ...
... feels , what he deems it good for people to know , and does not think of the categories . The combination of the elements just spoken of the material , the personality , the point of view , the animus , the training , etc. , of the ...
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... feeling or opinion without regard to external and objective fact , and a matter - of - fact statement of the collective fact . No writer in this volume quite reaches either extreme . Lamb is nearest to impressionism ; Mr. Robertson to ...
... feeling or opinion without regard to external and objective fact , and a matter - of - fact statement of the collective fact . No writer in this volume quite reaches either extreme . Lamb is nearest to impressionism ; Mr. Robertson to ...
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... feeling . " George Eliot " understands human nature , " but " many of her characters are not universal . " " If she does not give us all the truth about life , she touches some of its deeper realities — She loves the deeper problems ...
... feeling . " George Eliot " understands human nature , " but " many of her characters are not universal . " " If she does not give us all the truth about life , she touches some of its deeper realities — She loves the deeper problems ...
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... feeling that predominates . That which distin- guishes him from other writers of his class , intellectually and spiritually , is surely a thing worth exposition . Another impor- tant source of material for a theme is found in the ...
... feeling that predominates . That which distin- guishes him from other writers of his class , intellectually and spiritually , is surely a thing worth exposition . Another impor- tant source of material for a theme is found in the ...
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... feeling he had come to Ireland ; and Ireland — I am speaking of a century and a half ago was the opprobrium of ... feelings might have been differ- ent ; but he always held that they were as inconsiderable as the women and children ...
... feeling he had come to Ireland ; and Ireland — I am speaking of a century and a half ago was the opprobrium of ... feelings might have been differ- ent ; but he always held that they were as inconsiderable as the women and children ...
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Page 267 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 266 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 300 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities : of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 289 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 145 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 59 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 146 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago), And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Page 303 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Page 290 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 285 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...