Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Brown and Taggard, 1860 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 96
الصفحة 7
... gives us true pleasure to see his spirits so much improved since we first met him . In the Life of Schiller his state did seem rather unprosperous : he wore a timorous , submissive , and downcast aspect , as if , like Sterne's Ass , he ...
... gives us true pleasure to see his spirits so much improved since we first met him . In the Life of Schiller his state did seem rather unprosperous : he wore a timorous , submissive , and downcast aspect , as if , like Sterne's Ass , he ...
الصفحة 9
... give us some glimpses into his singular and noble nature ; and to our readers a few words on this man , cer- tainly one of the most remarkable of his age , will not seem thrown away . Except by name , Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is ...
... give us some glimpses into his singular and noble nature ; and to our readers a few words on this man , cer- tainly one of the most remarkable of his age , will not seem thrown away . Except by name , Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is ...
الصفحة 18
... give him . As we approach more closely , many things grow clearer . In the man's own sphere there is consistency ; the farther we advance into it , we see confusion more and more unfold itself into order , till at last , viewed from its ...
... give him . As we approach more closely , many things grow clearer . In the man's own sphere there is consistency ; the farther we advance into it , we see confusion more and more unfold itself into order , till at last , viewed from its ...
الصفحة 20
Thomas Carlyle. medium through which he looks . His is the spirit which gives life and beauty to whatever it embraces . Inanimate Nature itself is no longer an insensible assemblage of colours and perfumes , but a mysterious Presence ...
Thomas Carlyle. medium through which he looks . His is the spirit which gives life and beauty to whatever it embraces . Inanimate Nature itself is no longer an insensible assemblage of colours and perfumes , but a mysterious Presence ...
الصفحة 21
... give us no right emblem of it : except per- haps in Ariosto , there appears little in their current poetry that reaches the region of true humour . In France , since the days of Montaigne , it seems to be nearly JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH ...
... give us no right emblem of it : except per- haps in Ariosto , there appears little in their current poetry that reaches the region of true humour . In France , since the days of Montaigne , it seems to be nearly JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ADALBERT admiration already appears beauty Berlin Burns Burns's called character Christian Gottlob Heyne clear critics darkness death deep drama earnest earth endeavour English existence farther Faust feeling Franz Horn genius German German literature Goethe Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen hand heart Heinrich Döring Helena Heyne highest Hitzig Hoffmann humour intellectual Klingemann labour less light literary literature living look LUDWIG TIECK Lynceus Madame de Staël matter means Menelaus ment Mephistopheles merit mind moral Müllner mystic nature never noble Novalis nowise object perhaps Philosophy PHORCYAS piece Playwrights poem poet poetic poetry poor present Protestantism readers reckon Religion reverence Richter scene seems Shakspeare singular sorrow sort soul speak spirit stands strange style talent taste thee things thou thought Tieck tion true truth Voltaire Werner whole wild Wilhelm wise wonder word writings
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 304 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were; and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's called by the unpromising title of
الصفحة 305 - I never saw a man in company with his superiors in station or information more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was told, but did not observe it, that his address to females was extremely deferential, and always with a turn either to the pathetic or humorous, which engaged their attention particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this. — I do not know anything I can add to these recollections of forty years since.
الصفحة 272 - All that remains of Burns, the Writings he has left, seem to us, as we hinted above, no more than a poor mutilated fraction of what was in him ; brief, broken glimpses of a genius that could never show itself complete ; that wanted all things for completeness : culture, leisure, true effort, nay even length of life.
الصفحة 271 - Peasant show himself among us; "a soul like an ^Eolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody." And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging ale-barrels!
الصفحة 60 - Let some beneficent divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century; not, however, to delight it by his presence, but dreadful, like the Son of Agamemnon, to purify it.
الصفحة 285 - Ilk happing bird, — wee, helpless thing ! — That in the merry months o' spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o
الصفحة 7 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
الصفحة 249 - We read Goethe for years, before we come to see wherein the distinguishing peculiarity of his understanding, of his disposition, even of his way of writing, consists. It seems quite a simple style that of his ; remarkable chiefly for its calmness, its perspicuity, in short its commonness ; and yet it is the most uncommon of all styles : we feel as if every one might imitate it, and yet it is inimitable. As hard is it to discover in his writings, — though there also, as in every man's writings,...
الصفحة 302 - Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales, Her heathy moors and winding vales ; The scenes where wretched fancy roves, Pursuing past, unhappy loves! Farewell, my friends ! Farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those— The bursting tears my heart declare, Farewell the bonnie banks of Ayr ! SONG.
الصفحة 241 - ... nature has in some degree restored itself to freedom and independence. The natural man repeats this operation millions of times in the course of his life ; from fear he struggles to freedom ; from freedom he is driven back to fear, and so makes no advancement. To fear is easy, but grievous ; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory. Man does not willingly submit himself to reverence ; or rather he never so submits himself : it is a higher sense, which must be communicated to his nature ; which...