Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Brown and Taggard, 1860 |
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... truth is , that , rich as we are in Biography , a well- written Life is almost as rare as a well - spent one ; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded , than persons willing and able to record it ...
... truth is , that , rich as we are in Biography , a well- written Life is almost as rare as a well - spent one ; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded , than persons willing and able to record it ...
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... truth he might have asseverated that it was no biography at all . Well are he and Hennings of Gotha aware that this thing of shreds and patches has been vamped together for sale only . Except a few letters to Kunz , the Bamberg ...
... truth he might have asseverated that it was no biography at all . Well are he and Hennings of Gotha aware that this thing of shreds and patches has been vamped together for sale only . Except a few letters to Kunz , the Bamberg ...
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... truth ; the spirit that pervades and ennobles his delineations of com- mon life , his wild wayward dreams , allegories , and shadowy imaginings , no less than his disquisitions of a nature directly scientific . But in this latter ...
... truth ; the spirit that pervades and ennobles his delineations of com- mon life , his wild wayward dreams , allegories , and shadowy imaginings , no less than his disquisitions of a nature directly scientific . But in this latter ...
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... truth or their want of truth . Tried by many an accepted standard , Richter would be speedily . enough disposed of ; pronounced a mystic , a German dream- er , a rash and presumptuous innovator ; and so consigned , with equanimity ...
... truth or their want of truth . Tried by many an accepted standard , Richter would be speedily . enough disposed of ; pronounced a mystic , a German dream- er , a rash and presumptuous innovator ; and so consigned , with equanimity ...
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... truth , nay steady pillars of scientific light rising through this chaos : Is it in fact a chaos ; or may it be that our eyes are of finite , not of infinite vision , and have only missed the plan ? Few rhapsodists ' are men of science ...
... truth , nay steady pillars of scientific light rising through this chaos : Is it in fact a chaos ; or may it be that our eyes are of finite , not of infinite vision , and have only missed the plan ? Few rhapsodists ' are men of science ...
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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...