Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Brown and Taggard, 1860 |
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الصفحة 12
... never with- out reverence and overflowing tenderness . ' Unhappy is the man , ' says he , for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable ! And elsewhere : ' O thou who ' hast still a father and a mother , thank God for ...
... never with- out reverence and overflowing tenderness . ' Unhappy is the man , ' says he , for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable ! And elsewhere : ' O thou who ' hast still a father and a mother , thank God for ...
الصفحة 13
... never his highest end . His thoughts , his feelings , the creations of his spirit , walk before us em- bodied under wondrous shapes , in motley and ever - fluctuating groups ; but his essential character , however he disguise it , is ...
... never his highest end . His thoughts , his feelings , the creations of his spirit , walk before us em- bodied under wondrous shapes , in motley and ever - fluctuating groups ; but his essential character , however he disguise it , is ...
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... never condescends to be a merryandrew . Nay , in spite of its extravagance , we should say that his humour is of all his gifts intrinsically the finest and most genuine . It has such witching turns ; there is something in it so ...
... never condescends to be a merryandrew . Nay , in spite of its extravagance , we should say that his humour is of all his gifts intrinsically the finest and most genuine . It has such witching turns ; there is something in it so ...
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... never rises into humour ; even with Molière , it is far more an affair of the understand- ing than of the character . That , in this point , Richter excels all German authors , is saying much for him , and may be said truly . Lessing ...
... never rises into humour ; even with Molière , it is far more an affair of the understand- ing than of the character . That , in this point , Richter excels all German authors , is saying much for him , and may be said truly . Lessing ...
الصفحة 24
... privileges of its own ; it selects an orbit for itself ; and be this never so eccentric , if it is in- deed a celestial orbit , we mere star - gazers must at last com- pose ourselves ; must cease to cavil at it , 24 MISCELLANIES .
... privileges of its own ; it selects an orbit for itself ; and be this never so eccentric , if it is in- deed a celestial orbit , we mere star - gazers must at last com- pose ourselves ; must cease to cavil at it , 24 MISCELLANIES .
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ADALBERT admiration already appear beauty Berlin Burns Burns's called character Christian Gottlob Heyne clear critics dark death deep 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
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الصفحة 371 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
الصفحة 294 - If we farther take into account the immense variety of his subjects ; how, from the loud flowing revel in Willie brew'da Peck o...
الصفحة 366 - It is not in the likeness of anything in the heavens above, or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth, that the highest musical capacity can be tried.
الصفحة 283 - Auld Ayr is just one lengthen'd, tumbling sea ; Then down ye'll hurl — deil nor ye never rise ! — And dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies ! A lesson sadly teaching, to your cost, That Architecture's noble art is lost !
الصفحة 326 - Granted, the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged ; the pilot is blameworthy ; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful : but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the Globe, or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs.
الصفحة 272 - Burns was given the power of making man's life more venerable, but that of wisely guiding his own was not given. Destiny, — for so, in our ignorance, we must speak, — his faults, the faults of others, proved too hard for him ; and that spirit which might have soared, could it but have walked, soon sank to the dust, its glorious faculties trodden under foot in the blossom, and died, we may almost say, without ever having lived.
الصفحة 268 - In one word, what and how produced was the effect of society on him; what and how produced was his effect on society ? He who should answer these questions, in regard to any individual, would, as we believe, furnish a model of perfection in Biography.
الصفحة 271 - But a true Poet, a man in whose heart resides some effluence of Wisdom, some tone of the " Eternal Melodies," is the most precious gift that can be bestowed on a generation: we see in him a freer, purer development of whatever is noblest in ourselves...
الصفحة 289 - Address might be unsafe to trifle with. Doubtless this stern hymn was singing itself, as he formed it, through the soul of Burns : but to the external ear, it should be sung with the throat of the whirlwind.
الصفحة 9 - But his own works give us some glimpses into his singular and noble nature ; and to our readers a few words on this man, certainly one of the most remarkable of his age, will not seem thrown away. Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country, is his saying, imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics ; — ' Providence ' has given to the French the empire of...