The Miscellaneous Works, Volumen1H.C. Baird, 1854 |
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... mind , are mere idle sounds , except that our vanity claims an interest and property in them . I have more satisfaction in my own thoughts than in dic- tating them to others : words are necessary to explain the im- pression of certain ...
... mind , are mere idle sounds , except that our vanity claims an interest and property in them . I have more satisfaction in my own thoughts than in dic- tating them to others : words are necessary to explain the im- pression of certain ...
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... mind's eye , and was overshadowed with the spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest compliment I can pay to their transcendent merits . Indeed , it was from seeing other works of ...
... mind's eye , and was overshadowed with the spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest compliment I can pay to their transcendent merits . Indeed , it was from seeing other works of ...
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... mind , his hopes in youth , his consolation in age : and shall he not feel a more intense in- terest in whatever relates to it than the mere indolent trifler ? Natural sensibility alone , without the entire application of the mind to ...
... mind , his hopes in youth , his consolation in age : and shall he not feel a more intense in- terest in whatever relates to it than the mere indolent trifler ? Natural sensibility alone , without the entire application of the mind to ...
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... mind's eye , and are thus rendered present to the thoughts and feelings . Nay , the one is even more imaginary , a more fantastic creature of the brain than the other , and the in- terest we take in it more shadowy and gratuitous ; for ...
... mind's eye , and are thus rendered present to the thoughts and feelings . Nay , the one is even more imaginary , a more fantastic creature of the brain than the other , and the in- terest we take in it more shadowy and gratuitous ; for ...
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... mind , compared with that of the last ! All that strikes the imagination or excites any interest in the mighty scene is what has been ! * Neither in itself then , nor as a subject of general contempla- tion , has the future any ...
... mind , compared with that of the last ! All that strikes the imagination or excites any interest in the mighty scene is what has been ! * Neither in itself then , nor as a subject of general contempla- tion , has the future any ...
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abstract admiration appear artist beauty better breath character Coleridge common Correggio criticism delight Domenichino effect effeminacy Elgin marbles equal ESSAY excellence expression face fancy feeling figure French genius give grace habit hand head hear heart human idea imagination king laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Castlereagh Louvre Mademoiselle Mars manner mean merit Michael Angelo Milton mind Molière nature ness never object once opinion ourselves painted painter Paradise Lost pass passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poet portrait prejudice pretensions principle racter Raphael reason Rembrandt seems sense Sir Joshua Sir Walter Scott smile Sonnets sort soul speak spirit strange matters striking style supposed talk taste thing thought tion Titian truth turn vanity Vendeans vulgar Whig whole words write
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Página 141 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 247 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 245 - That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the...
Página 67 - To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime; We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain.
Página 97 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.
Página 187 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 165 - The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
Página 49 - Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring entombed in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot ; The flight is past — and man forgot.
Página 247 - Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Página 97 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.